Sentences with phrase «about liberal democracy»

What worries us about liberal democracy is that political leaders, especially democratically elected ones, find it difficult to admit their mistakes.

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Weigel writes: «Avoiding the really hard questions, O'Brien's Massey Lectures are replete with what cigar - makers call «filler»: ill - informed cracks about American presidential politics; typically dismissive liberal cliches about a somnambulant Ronald Reagan; a strange obsession with the Clinton Administration's «Operation Restore Democracy» in Haiti.

One of the things about Japan that matters, I'd say, is how we see liberal democracy working itself out in a decidedly non-Western, yet otherwise very modern, nation.

I think it is appropriate in our liberal democracy for Christians, along with adherents of other religions, to make decisions about political issues on the basis of whatever considerations they find true and relevant.

When you're talking about Revelation you're talking about Jesus» Second Coming, and there are a lot of Christians who think that their religion wouldn't be worth the effort unless they personally got to see their Lord and Savior slaughter all the liberals and end democracy like it says in that book.

And we have a Prime Minister who seized the leadership of the Liberal Party by opposing the best method of trying to do something about it and who appoints advisers who believe the whole thing is a plot by the United Nations to undermine democracy.

This, after all, is what most political argument inside liberal democracies is about — small economic gains and losses that might accrue to different sections of the population.

Liberal democracy is not about politicised justice, amoral familism, xenophobic nationalism, or religious fundamentalism.

What we should surely be aware of is that these issues connect directly with the much broader and ongoing global debate about the future of government and the challenge that the rise of non-democratic countries, like China, pose to the universal aspirations of liberal democracy.

Lastly, the episode raises questions about the protection of minority rights against the will of the majority, a tenet of liberal democracy.

As John McCormick writes «republicanism, unless reconstructed almost beyond the point of recognition, can only reinforce what is worst about contemporary liberal democracy: the free hand that socioeconomic and political elites enjoy at the expense of the general populace.»

If Liberal Democracy is about anything it is surely about applying the lessons of the past to the present.

The Autumn 2010 edition of Renewal — a journal of social democracy — sees the Chair of the Social Liberal Forum David Hall - Matthews writing about the formation of the Coalition government from a Lib Dem perspective.

These included: the need to examine the best ways to tackle anti-social behaviour; putting industrial democracy back at the forefront of our economic policies; giving a higher profile to fuel poverty; the need to spend more on social housing; and a desire to talk about policy to those with similar perspectives from outside the Liberal Democrats.

There is no point in complaining about Vince Cable's annual left - leaning speech to the Liberal Democrat conference - the crude jokes about bankers, the re-plugging of his beloved mansions tax, the way in which support for deficit reduction is wrapped up in the garnish of social democracy, with Bevin, Cripps and Roy Jenkins prayed in aid.

«All the available evidence indicates that exposure to difference, talking about difference, and applauding difference — the hallmarks of liberal democracy — are the surest ways to aggravate those who are innately intolerant,» Haidt quotes Stenner, «and to guarantee the increased expression of their predispositions in manifestly intolerant attitudes and behaviors.»

It recaps the major differences between philanthropy and government, beginning with a useful distinction between two «different worldviews about the role of foundations in a liberal democracy.»

It's about using democracy to resolve our differences the best we can, while building bridges between the «two Americas» that have come into sharp relief — a liberal, urbanized, mostly coastal, and generally more affluent one, and a conservative, rural and exurban, generally poorer, heartland one.

Does he know that the so - called «Arab Spring» protests in Egypt that triggered all the shouts about democracy among liberals, were actually food riots caused by governments listening to alternate fuel advocates like IPS?

I also believe that a Liberal government, under Justin Trudeau, will bring about the sweeping changes that we need in order restore a sense of trust in our democracy.

But she says it does not always sit well in a parliamentary liberal democracy where important disagreement about the substance and content of laws and policies should be publicly ventilated and debated — particularly Australia's «disavowal» of self - determination.