Sentences with phrase «focuses on democracies»

@agc - I wouldn't say this answer focuses on democracies at all, but since «populism» is a modern term there is some difficulty in associating it with writings from the past.

11 pages of revision activities all with a focus on democracy, the development of UK democracy, political change and voting systems and different forms of government for these sections of the new GCSE 9 - 1 Citizenship spec.

The sixth grade unit, Democracy in Ancient Greece, focuses on democracy and citizenship within the context of the western world's first democracy in ancient Athens.

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His team takes content marketing one step further by including aggregated news stories relevant to Sanders» policies, curating the most relevant information into a single feed on his website, called «Democracy Daily,» focusing on what Sanders cares about most and providing easy social sharing options.

Regardless of what route some companies take, Scassa says it is paramount that they focus on managing their «custody of huge amounts of personal info that clearly can be used for really harmful and dangerous purposes» that «can lead to serious crimes and attempts to subvert democracy.»

«European democracy, and I think also British democracy, has not been established to diminish the rights of citizens but to protect the rights of citizens,» he said, reiterating his often repeated position that the European Parliament will insist negotiating teams must focus on this issue.

Rasiej is the founder of Personal Democracy Media, a New York - based group that focuses on the intersection of politics and technology.

KEEP FOCUS on #treason for @realDonaldTrump AND RUSSIA HACKED AMERICAN DEMOCRACY!!

Created by Soros in 1979, Open Society is a grant - making foundation with branches and partners around the world and focuses on supporting democracies and combating issues of injustice and discrimination, among other causes.

Highly critical of New Labour but strongly influenced by Scandinavian social democracy, Compass is advancing themes and policies which will resonate on the progressive left in Canada — a relentless focus on -LSB-...]

Will Horter, formerly the executive director at DogwoodBC and a staff lawyer at EcoJustice (then Sierra Legal Defence Fund), is an activist and writer whose work focuses on reinvigorating democracy, redefining citizenship and pondering things that matter in the world.

OCTOBER 18, 2003: Plans for a new B.C. focused news publication announced by David Beers on a Media Democracy Day panel in Vancouver.

A focus on video and democracy - bending sensationalism haven't delivered the turnaround Zuckerberg expected.

The focus is on secular rather than religious goals: freedom, opportunity, democracy.

In a press release, organizers said the event was focused on promoting Pancasila, Indonesia's state philosophy, which encompasses five basic principles that include belief in one God, just and civilized society, unity and democracy.

Forty - five leading pro-life advocates, including Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council, James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Clarke Forsythe of Americans United for Life, Wanda Franz of the National Right to Life Committee, and Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition, signed a much heralded joint «Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern» published in First Things in 1996 in which the primary legal complaint was made that Roe «wounded American democracy» by removing the issue of abortion from «democratic concern.»

Rather than focusing on parts and wholes, a framework that at times seems semantic, Rubin might have more instructively examined the tension between, for instance, technocracy, national sovereignty, and democracy.

As a modest contribution, I intend, focussing on the notion of cidadania (citizenship), the central term for democracy since the end of military rule in 1985, to analyze the theoretical and practical contribution of churches towards it.

Much of the current theological critique of liberal society focuses not so much on democracy as a system of political representation as on liberalism as a form of society that operates, or seeks to operate, without a substantive conception of the good.

Discussing the language of war, Aldous Huxley focused on the word «force»: «The attempt to secure justice, peace and democracy by «force» seems reasonable enough until we realize, first, that this non-committal word stands, in the circumstances of our age, for activities which can hardly fail to result in social chaos; and second, that the consequences of social chaos are injustice, chronic warfare and tyranny» (The Olive Tree [Harper & Row, 1937]-RRB-.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

While we certainly do not claim to utter the last word on the topic, we imagine that the focus will shift away from the big structural accounts surrounding inequality and democracy to more micro-level studies of how autocracies actually function.

However, it tends to blur the relationship between property and republican freedom, and between property and democracy, focusing instead on absence of domination and arbitrary interference by other individuals and groups, including the State.

Their core policies focus on direct democracy, civil rights and access to information.

This will allow researchers to examine how democracy promotion looks on the ground, and will allow the project to focus on those the programmes are intended to benefit.

His MSc thesis focused on the relationship between partisanship and political representation, exploring why political parties can rescue democracy from the paradox of representation.

In his contribution to this series he focuses on the 18th century American labour republicans and their opposition to wage - labour and demands for cooperatives and workplace democracy.

Sifry focuses only on use of the Internet to create a marketplace for small donor fund raising and revels in «open» conversations hosted on the campaign website as a sign of direct democracy to come.

In February he backed the focus on Soros, calling him «perhaps the most dangerous man in western democracy».

He reiterated his commitment to run a transparent and accountable system, with focus on delivering dividends of democracy to the people of the state.

A Labour source said: «Having placed so much focus on «party democracy» under Jeremy Corbyn, Unite are trying to flood local parties and ensure the sword of Damocles is hung over of the heads of MPs — do as we say or we will deselect you.»

On Wednesday night, the SU chapter of Democracy Matters, a national student group that focuses on campaign finance reform, invited Williams to discuss his thoughts on the issuOn Wednesday night, the SU chapter of Democracy Matters, a national student group that focuses on campaign finance reform, invited Williams to discuss his thoughts on the issuon campaign finance reform, invited Williams to discuss his thoughts on the issuon the issue.

Founded in 1967, the party focuses on socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism and racial equality, according to the party's website.

His focus over the coming days will be on restructuring the Government on the big challenges facing the country for the future: how we guide the economy through the downturn and strengthen it for the future; how we push ahead with reform of and investment in our public services; and how we renew trust in our democracy and Parliament.

Her research focuses on devolution, governance rescaling, territorial politics, regionalism and democracy — with a particular emphasis on the «English Question» and the case of Northern England.

The 12th in the series, the «Kronti Ne Akwamu» lecture would feature prominent scholars and practitioners of international and local stature, whose interests and works focus on promotion of democracy, good governance and inclusive development.

The Foundation also focuses on developing leaders and citizens with a sound understanding and a deep commitment to quality education, democracy, economic development and human rights as underlying values for building a peaceful, prosperous and ambitious country.

This year's theme of «Democracy and Conflict Prevention» focuses on the critical need to strengthen democratic institutions to promote peace and stability globally particularly in West Africa.

The speech, focused on the «state of our democracy» and highlighted what has been accomplished while recognizing the work left to be done.

We will host a discussion around economic policy over on our new blog dedicated to social liberal economics, PlanC.socialliberal.net, and there will of course be a full an open debate on ownership, democracy and power, at the SLF Conference in Manchester on July 13th — here, we will focus on the wider politics of social liberalism.

Aside from her political exploits — she was a top organizer on the high - profile Howard Dean campaign of 2004 — Teachout is best known as a scholar of political corruption, and her academic writing focuses on the politics of power, including the corrupting influence or corporations on democracy.

THE RECENT PLATYPUS PANEL on the «Death of Social Democracy» raised the prospect of a socialist left whose approach is not focused on taking power in capitalist national states, whether through the electoral reformism of traditional Social Democracy or a Bolshevik - style armed seizure, but on building a grassroots - democratic, confederal, and internationalist counterpower that can replace capitalist nation - states with a truly democratic socialism.

My doctoral research focused on intra-party democracy in Northern Ireland, providing a comparative longitudinal analysis of how the region's main political parties select their leaders, candidates and policy.

Tell Governor Cuomo to focus on what really matters — strengthening our democracy by passing public financing of elections in New York.

The vitality of California's economy and democracy depends on this singular focus.

She was national director of Washington, D.C. - based Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan organization working for «transparency and accountability» in federal, state and local governments with a focus on documenting how money is perverting democracy.

The U.S. State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, or DRL, as it is called, manages a budget of about half a billion dollars per year spread across 350 human rights - related programs spanning the globe, including many that focus on forensics or internet freedom.

The Council of Europe is a 47 - member organization, unrelated to the European Union, that focuses on promoting human rights and democracy across the continent.

The Programme focuses on questions of sustainable development, environmental protection, and democracy in the Baltic Sea region.

This book deals with the nexus of women, development and democracy — as a post-Enlightenment, post-modern and global feminist project of the West — by focusing on the political leadership of one of the best - known women politicians the United States has produced in recent times...