(The latter can be regarded as an ideal system of global governance, as well as a dystopia
for national democracies).
Not exact matches
The panel features former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and former
National Security Agency Director Michael McConnell to debate with Nuala O'Conner, CEO
for the Center
for Democracy and Technology, and Trevor Hughes, president and CEO of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
The indictment of 13 Russian
nationals for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has reignited the debate on whether Facebook and other social - media giants are a threat to
democracy.
Last month a report by the US Senate — entitled Putin's Asymmetric Assault on
Democracy in Russia and Europe: Implications
for US
National Security — also criticized the adequacy of the investigations conducted thus far by Facebook and Twitter into allegations of Russian social media interference vis - a-vis Brexit.
He is co-chair of the campaign on Corporate Globalization and Positive Alternatives
for the Alliance
for Democracy, a
national non-partisan group working to end corporate domination over government and policy.
This has serious implications
for democracy and Kenya's
national unity, which appears increasingly fragile.
Reciting the imperfections of
democracy does not lead ineluctably to the conclusion that the least accountable branch of the federal government is the better forum
for our
national debate about public values.
This came as a shock to Mitchell, not just as a devotee but because he thought
Democracy in America would be the perfect book
for their
national predicaments.
Then there is the way in which Americans determine their own
national interest» from manifest destiny, to Woodrow Wilson's crusade
for democracy, to the delegitimation of America's war in Vietnam, to the debate over just war and the Gulf War.
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.»
Safe seats are bad
for democracy, bad
for a
national conversation, no matter your political preference.
Educational opportunity in a
democracy should be the same
for everyone, without regard to skin color, religious affiliation,
national origin, or any other allegedly «racial» factor.
Jesus would do the following (in the U.S.A.): medicare
for all, legalize all drugs, legalize gay marriage, destroy the wall between the U.S.A. and Mexico and consequently give the U.S. border patrol agents something useful and productive to do, end U.S. military aggression around the world, direct election of U.S. presidents, the
national initiative
for democracy, urge Christians to be more productive on Sundays instead of seeing who can wear the nicest clothes to church.
The journal is a quarterly published by the
National Endowment
for Democracy (1101 15th St NW, Suite 200, Washington, D.C 20005) and should be of great interest to people trying to understand political and cultural changes in today's world.
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.
Vice president
for research and studies at the
National Endowment
for Democracy (NED) Marc F. Plattner represents an organization whose definition of democracy is much more stringent in its demands with criteria of democratic inclusivity (as shown in a short essay by its funding officer, Louisa Greve, cite
Democracy (NED) Marc F. Plattner represents an organization whose definition of
democracy is much more stringent in its demands with criteria of democratic inclusivity (as shown in a short essay by its funding officer, Louisa Greve, cite
democracy is much more stringent in its demands with criteria of democratic inclusivity (as shown in a short essay by its funding officer, Louisa Greve, cited below).
His yardstick
for measuring
democracy, however, is primarily one of
national election, Western - style, while China «remains one of the very few countries in the world today that does not even pretend to choose its leaders by popular election» (p. xi).
But we said they were from his Jefferson Lecture when, in fact, they were said at a conference sponsored a while back by the
National Endowment
for Democracy.
Wilsonian morality which equated peace and a good international society with
democracy and
national self - determination was rather too simple to meet the harsh necessities,
for example, of a viable economy in Central Europe.
• Third, the
National Endowment
for Democracy (NED) plays an increasingly important role within U.S. LIC strategy.8 The NED was formed at the behest of President Reagan in 1983 in order to help develop the «infrastructure of democrac
Democracy (NED) plays an increasingly important role within U.S. LIC strategy.8 The NED was formed at the behest of President Reagan in 1983 in order to help develop the «infrastructure of
democracydemocracy.»
The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look
for ways to face it; (ii) At the
national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need
for a «participative
democracy over against a purely representative formal
democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle
for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.
Last April, Nepal faced a
national crisis with growing protests
for restoration of
democracy.
She has served on the Board of the
National Humanities Center and currently she is a member of the Council of the
National Endowment
for the Humanities, the Scholars Council of the Library of Congress, and the Board of the
National Endowment
for Democracy.
Reading the diaries of Dietrich von Hildebrand from the late 1920s and early 1930s, I was powerfully struck by how the disdain of continental European Christian intellectuals
for the messy pluralism of liberal
democracy made too many of those thinkers vulnerable to the siren songs of the monism proposed by German
National Socialism and Italian fascism.
His proposal is
for a corporatist
democracy «built from the bottom up» through a system of tiers that begins locally in Russian villages and culminates in the selection of a powerful president at the
national level.
The right to dissent is fundamental to our
democracy, and alternative voices are necessary when the push
for a
national consensus is so strong.
Agri - TNCs Network - Philippines, MASIPAG (Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag - unlad ng Agrikultura), KMP (Kilusang Mangbubukid ng Pilipinas), PNSFP (Philippine Network
for Food Security Programs), SIBAT (Sibol ng Agham at Teknolohiya), HEAD (Health action
for Democracy), PAN Phils (Pesticide Action Network - Phils, TFIP (Philippine Task Force
for Indigenous Peoples Rights), CENDI (Community Entrepreneur Development Institute), SRD (Center
for Sustainable Rural Development), Vietnam, SPFT (Southern Peasants Federation of Thailand), AGRA (Alliance of Agrarian Reform Movement), SERUNI
National Women's Alliance, Indonesia, NWFA (
National Women Farmers and Workers Association), BAFLF (Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation), SHISUK (Shikha Shastha Unnayan Karzakram), Bangladesh, APVUU (Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union), ORRISSA (Organization
for Rural Reconstruction and Integrated Social Services Activities), CREATE, India THANAL, India, Save Our Rice Network, India, PAN-INDIA (Pesticide Action Network - India), India, GRAIN, PAN-AP (Pesticide Action Network - Asia Pacific), APC (Asian Peasants Coalition), Consumers Union of Japan, Women's Development Federation WELIGEPOLA, MONLAR, Sri Lanka
The
National League
for Democracy (NLD) has recently won 43 of 45 seats contested in a recent by - election and their leader and pro-
democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, beat her rival, former military doctor U Soe Min of the Junta - backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), in Kawhmu township just outside Yangon.
If the democratic dispensation in Ghana were like those of more mature
democracies, there would be a mechanism in place
for consensual discussions of issues of
national interest.
In a poor country without compulsory voting, this is a major achievement in the maturing of East Timor's
democracy and its EMBs — the Technical Secretariat
for Electoral Administration and the
National Electoral Commission — deserve much of the credit
for this.
None of the elite organisations like Unlock
Democracy or the UCL Constitution Unit have ever proposed anything as definite as the «Plan
for the Establishment of a
National Bank» published posthumously so long ago as 1824 by the icon of laissez - faire capitalism, David Ricardo, who reasoned that the stock of money would be best originated by a public institution.
The two honourable members of parliament deserved to respected, commended and appreciated
for seeking to expand the frontiers of our
democracy by taking the challenge to bring to an end whether one can decide not to do
national service or not rather than the «raw deal» they got.
Its victory in the Spanish
national election of November 2011, was counteracted in Catalonia with a secessionist majority in its Parliament
for the first time in
democracy.
The CNDD - FDD (
National Council
for the Defence of
Democracy / Forced
for the Defence of
Democracy) historically had most of its votes from rural areas, as shows the map of the results of the 2010 municipal elections.
Two hundred words on populism are barely sufficient to point out that a century ago, before populism became a swear word mostly directed at right - wing parties such as the Alternative
for Germany, Hungary's Fides and the Front
National in France, populism was the pride of social
democracy.
I often share digital best practices at
national and regional conferences such as AAPC, Art of Political Campaigning, CampaignTech, Campaigns & Marketing Summit, NTC, Netroots Nation, Organizing 2.0, the Reed Awards, and RootsCamp, webinars
for Progressive Majority, Salsa Labs and others, and trainings in - person
for small groups around the country including
for Wellstone's Advanced Campaign Management School, Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, Center
for Progressive Leadership, Clean Air Task Force,
Democracy for America, HRC, New Leaders Council and New Organizing Institute.
The Election Institute
for Sustainable
Democracy in Africa (EISA) Mission to Sierra Leone, has advised the
National Electoral Commission (NEC) to ensure that election...
The election was won by the
National League
for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi, who was placed under house arrest and not permitted to become prime minister.
Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence, University of Lagos, Akin Oyebode is set to deliver a paper on the Strategic Dialogue on Mobilizing the Citizens to Demand Anti-Corruption Reforms and an End to Impunity
for Grand Corruption in Nigeria being organized by Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in collaboration with the
National Endowment
for Democracy (NED).
This process doubtless caused headaches
for Brussels bureaucrats,
national governments and candidates, but it is good
for democracy.
While the United Nations Security Council acknowledged in its resolution 1991 of 28 June 2011 that the elections in the DR Congo are a «key condition
for the consolidation of
democracy,
national reconciliation and restoration of a stable, peaceful and secure environment in which stabilization and socio - economic development can progress» it places the main responsibility
for the elections with the Congolese government instead of ensuring the government has the necessary means available to conduct them.
Mrs Thatcher argued that the tide of opinion on the continent was towards centralising the structure of the European institutions - and this would be unsuitable
for Britain's
national identity and
democracy.
I think that there should be this option
for a mature
democracy on a crucial issue of
National Interest.
National groups such as MoveOn.org and
Democracy for America are pouring energy into the effort.
At the Labour women's conference, taking place before the formal start of the full
national event on Sunday, Mr Corbyn said his proposed review of party
democracy would ensure wider support
for his policies.
Cuomo will bask equally in the adoration of
national reform groups (the Center
for Popular
Democracy said Cuomo is «leading the way») and scorn from the right.
«
Democracy was adopted as the
National Ideology to provide equity, freedom and liberty
for all.
It suggested that the federal government should «commence the implementation of the 2014
National Conference, Set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission as the basis of providing healing, reconciliation and forgiveness in Nigeria, Set up machineries to develop a new Constitution
for Nigeria based on
Democracy as the only
National Ideology.
[37] The campaign has support from both religious and non-religious organizations at both the
national and local level including the Accord Coalition, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the British Humanist Association, British Muslims
for Secular
Democracy, ICoCo Foundation, the Centre
for Studies on Inclusive Education, Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.
Our bigger job is to help America fulfill the promise of
democracy itself, the promise that this is a country where everybody gets a chance — no matter who you are, where you come from, where you live, or what you think about the issues of the day,» said Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who in addition to talking up politics announced she would put $ 175,000 of her campaign cash into the
National Democratic Redistricting Committee and campaigns
for state legislature seats.