Sentences with phrase «democratic system of governance»

Mr. Mahama explained that, his administration could not retrieve the money because he could not have acted arbitrarily since Ghana operates a democratic system of governance.

This translates as the adoption of a Western - style liberal democratic system of governance.

The Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development's (IGSD) mission is to promote just and sustainable societies and to protect the environment by advancing the understanding, development, and implementation of effective, accountable and democratic systems of governance for sustainable development.

Not exact matches

Instead, we argue for a democratic «war of position», advocating institutional reforms that can be secured in the current context that will nonetheless advance incrementally, but irreversibly, the democratic quality of our political system and governance of our public institutions.

A close analysis of these indicators makes clear that dignity and a dignity - based model of governance do not necessarily overlap with liberal democratic values and systems of government, where exclusion and injustice can run rampant.

We applaud successive administrations and political actors, including the various political parties, and indeed, the entire Ghanaian citizenry for keeping faith with the 1992 Constitution, which ushered in the 4th Republic and has undergirded our democratic governance system and practices in the last quarter of a century.

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.

The challenge is to recognize the legitimacy of the global polity as an outer layer of a nested system of affiliation that reaches across regions and places to build processes of democratic global governance for managing our collective affairs on this planet.

Hence the question of equality and understanding the natural system can be solved on the basis of constitutional provisions, which are the part of the governance of the democratic states.

However, to be democratic, it would be necessary, however, that the governance of these systems count on the active participation of the population and civil society organizations in formulating goals (performance standard) to be pursued, as well as in policy or decision rules seeking to correct deviations between what was planned and carried out.

Fifteen years ago, our book, Charter Schools in Action, foresaw this innovative governance and delivery system for education as a hopeful path to stronger student achievement and as an engine «to recreate the democratic underpinnings of public education and rejoin schools to a vigorous civil society.»

He has insisted that we can not make our political system work unless people share a sense of the importance of responsible, democratic self - governance and have the intellectual and moral traits such governance requires.

An immediate end to the current UFT support for mayoral control and its replacement by a democratic system of local governance run by communities, parents, and educators.

We must wage an unequivocal fight for a democratic and responsive educational system, overturning mayoral control and resisting corporate «education reform,» which have disenfranchised communities from the governance of their schools.

(1) that decision - making groups include sunset clauses, (2) that school systems support administrators embarking on the path of democratic governance, and (3) that any restructuring effort maintain a primary focus on enhancing the teaching / learning process.

However, my main concern, which is the driving concern behind this book, is the larger question of the negative impact that the privatization of public dispute resolution processes has on systems of democratic governance.