(3) They should help to consolidate, and not undermine or weaken, the people's
democratic dictatorship [er, make that progressive leadership].
Chinese constitution refers to «
democratic dictatorship led by the working class», which is basically a definition that was first made by Lenin back in the 1900s.
«a socialist state under the people's
democratic dictatorship» does not preclude a state from being a Repbulic
Article 1 The People's Republic of China is a socialist state under the people's
democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants.
People's
democratic dictatorship is a phrase incorporated into the Constitution of the People's Republic of China by Mao Zedong, leader the Communist Party of China (CPC).
According to its Constitution China has a «
democratic dictatorship»:
Not exact matches
Non-Jews who prefer
democratic institutions to
dictatorship share that fear.
The real dilemmas have to do not with the fact that there are brutal
dictatorships in the world, but with the fact that the governments of the world are spread along a spectrum, from fair and
democratic to violent and totalitarian.
So the government is — essentially, the Social Democrats have imposed the
dictatorship in Iceland that they're trying to impose in Greece under the socialist government there and in other social
democratic governments throughout Europe.
There is not one truly
democratic Muslim country: They're either theocracies or
dictatorships.
And though apartheid and
dictatorships have been placed by electoral politics, the management of public affairs in these countries remains weak, and
democratic in name only.
But Christians did broadly endorse
democratic reforms that would bring an end to
dictatorship.
By this way of thinking, the same values that inspired Polish Catholicism and Pope John Paul II to resist communist
dictatorship should now shape a new
democratic Ukraine.
In his scenario, the country fell under a military
dictatorship early in the twenty - first century and the Dark Years continued until 2044 when the
Democratic Vistas Party, a «coalition of trade unions and churches,» toppled the regime and ushered in an era of egalitarian fraternity (or, as some insisted, «siblinghood»).
Endowed by the Lord with all sorts of natural and culture resources, Guinea, paradoxically stagnates in poverty...
Democratic freedoms are taken hostage by idealogical trends that can lead to intolerance and
dictatorship.
(And to think, Paul the apostle wrote those words about a pagan Roman
dictatorship persecuting Christians, while we live in the comparative comfort of a
democratic republic with civil liberties, social mobility and economic opportunity!)
Particularly, the
dictatorship of winner - takes - all duopolistic democracy (
democratic capitalism) has totally failed Ghana (and across the geopolitical landscape of Africa).
«Today is the day of open
dictatorship in Albania,» said Neritan Ceka, the head of the opposition
Democratic Alliance.
A
dictatorship can be very efficient, but it's seldom
democratic.
Democratic institutions built and empowered over three decades of dynamic political activity after Brazil gradually broke the chains of
dictatorship would remain firm, or so the story predicted, and would provide solid foundations for stabilisation and recovery.
The democracy index by The Economist (also see Wikipedia) is almost systematically classing countries that were recently
dictatorships as less
democratic than the longer term
democratic countries.
Nigerians should also not lose sleep or express surprises over recent or ongoing public antics and pro-dictatorial comments of the Attorney General of the Federation, Mallam Abubakar Malami, SAN, and the likes of Professor Itse Sagay, SAN, and Senator Ali Ndume, Senate Majority Leader; rather all Nigerians, particularly the NBA and other
democratic forces should concern themselves sleeplessly with how to rise up endlessly against the resurrected
dictatorship and its destructive forces.
However, there is a couple of examples in my mind where more or less
democratic systems evolved into either very flawed democracies or
dictatorships, without any military intervention or any extremist groups overtaking the government.
The governor, who reiterated his support for the fight against corruption, however, dismissed the $ 2.1 billion arms deal as a scam, noting that «all they are just doing is to brandish figures to deceive Nigerians and demonized the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) and those opposed to his
dictatorship in the All Progressive Congress (APC).
Nobody should be under any illusion that the ruling All Progressives Congress will ever change from its mission of
dictatorship through deliberate and carefully calculated violations of human rights, the rule of law and
democratic processes.»
«In 1999 when the then President Obasanjo was elected on a national consensus on the platform of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), there were a lot of expectations from Nigerians, haven come out of a
dictatorship from the hands of the military.
«Write what you know» is the old saying, so playing things close to the bone can be thrilling, especially if one takes the personalities of key players from the Third Reich and mixes them with modern - day politicians who set about turning a civil war - torn, modern,
democratic British political party into a terrifying
dictatorship.
Togbui Adrakpanya said the unanimous decision to enstool Former President Rawlings who is a son of the land as Nutifafa fia has been informed by the fact that he was a military ruler who relinquished
dictatorship and embraced
democratic rule by making a peaceful handover after his term.
For example, communist is considered to be
democratic by its supporter and
dictatorship by its detractors.
«Acting President Osinbajo recalls how in 1999 General Abubakar successfully chaperoned the
democratic transition from military rule in Nigeria, and commends his determination and forthright resolve that ended 16 years of military
dictatorship», it reads.
The governor, who reiterated his support for the fight against corruption, however, dismissed the $ 2.1 billion arms deal as a scam, noting that «all they are just doing is to brandish figures to deceive Nigerians and demonized the People's
Democratic Party (PDP) and those opposed to his
dictatorship in the All Progressive Congress (APC).
But while
democratic societies are desirable, the question we ask is: are
dictatorships all negative?
While
democratic and open governments are held up as the best system and
dictatorships are frowned upon, I wish to state with emphasis, that there is no «one size fits all» system of governance.
Social democracy,
democratic socialism, and the
dictatorship of the proletariat (usually exercised through Soviet democracy) are some examples.
Friedman imagines a fleet of floating nations embracing forms of government that range widely, from anarchic to majority - rule
democratic to outright
dictatorship.
The film is set in a recently - turned -
democratic South American country where the terror of former
dictatorship still lingers.
Building on the Foundations During the heady global optimism of the 1990s, Fareed Zakaria observed that while many former Cold War era
dictatorships were finally democratizing, they were not successfully transitioning to the liberal constitutional model, rather to a non-constitutional «illiberal» form of
democratic governance.
Sad to say, but this common core stuff is taking a
Democratic Country and placing with
dictatorship.
Starting at the Industrial Age, players will establish infrastructures, plan city districts, bribe or blackmail your opponents, empower the
democratic rights of your people, or ignore them completely and reign supreme with ironfisted
dictatorship.
Born in 1932, while his country was still under Japanese colonization, he grew up during the Korean War that divided his country, and saw South Korea become a young and unstable
democratic nation ruled by a military
dictatorship.
Lee Bul was born in the 1960s in South Korea, a period of social and economic upheaval marked by the transition from military
dictatorship to a
democratic state.
He described a fictional country called Cyrus under the rule of a strict
dictatorship, which was overthrown and replaced with a
democratic system.
It was designed to play host to various cultural and economic spectacles intended to distract the public from the less savoury manifestations of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos» particular brand of conjugal
dictatorship, which they (and Washington) had ludicrously rephrased as «
democratic authoritarianism.»
While governance by opacity or obscurity may — like
dictatorship — be more administratively convenient, this does not sit comfortably with the
democratic values of openness, transparency and stakeholder accountability.