Sentences with phrase «electoral democracy»

So despite some movement towards electoral democracy, challenges still remain.

The archive at the Vere Harmsworth Library at the Rothermere American Institute gives a small idea of the range of offices that exist in the USA, the reach and depth of electoral democracy in this nation and the variety and energy of the campaigns.

The leaders realize they need, at a minimum, some form of deliberative participation; even if they won't allow a proper electoral democracy and multi-party system (indeed they will do all they can to avoid it), they realize they have to be responsive.

Britain remained a functioning electoral democracy from 1969 to the 1990s.

John P. McCormick: Well, I merely offered a sketch for how a modern institution that excluded wealthy citizens might wield some of the powers held by the Roman tribunes within modern electoral democracies.

St Thomas Aquinas recognised that all citizens should have some share and say in government, whether the system be a monarchy, aristocracy or some variety of electoral democracy (ST. I - II Q. 105 art.

The wider point I was making was that electoral democracy is only the first step on the pathway to civilisation, and a society in which it was universally applied would be hellish — the dictatorship of the majority over every aspect of life.

You may have assumed that I was claiming that electoral democracy is no better than civil war, which I was absolutely not claiming; less slaughter is good, I agree.

Similarly, the 2011 Freedom House report classifies Comoros and Mauritania as «electoral democracies», [42] Lebanon, Kuwait and Morocco as «partly free», and all other Arab states as «not free».

In their mutually reinforcing recommendations, the two committees strongly advocated the establishment of Electoral Offences Commission / Tribunal for the enforcement of laws, to address all forms of electoral offences and consequently stem the incidence of electoral violence that has undermined the stability and progress of Nigeria's electoral democracy.

Speaking at a Public Hearing on a Bill to establish the National Electoral Offences Commission and For Other Matters Connected Therewith (2017), organized by the Joint Senate Committees on INEC and Judiciary on 12th March at the National Assembly complex Abuja, Prof Yakubu regretted that the development had led to the subversion of people's will, and by extension, also undermined the nation's electoral democracy.

Thanks to the competitive nature of electoral democracies, many — often most — citizens end up being governed by a party they didn't vote for.

In 2007 there were 123 electoral democracies (up from 40 in 1972) that constituted 58 % of the world's population.