Sentences with phrase «actual practice of democracy»

In short, CECH attempts to teach citizenship by encouraging participatory projects that engage students in the debate of real issues and the actual practice of democracy.

In the summer of 2009, we conducted a nationally representative survey of 1,500 Russian citizens, and found that respondents who were directly affected by the financial crisis were more likely to respond negatively to questions concerning popular support for the political leadership of the country, the efficacy of the political authorities, and the actual practice of democracy in Russia (Chaisty and Whitefield, 2012).

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Although Marxist theory teaches the establishment of a classless society through the expropriation of the bourgeoisie and the dictatorship of the proletariat, in actual practice the self - styled «Peoples» Democracies» contain well - defined new classes.

When verbal commitments to democracy are made a mockery of by actual practices, democracy is undermined at home and abroad.