Sentences with phrase «in global democracy»

Senator Lautenberg's amendment to repeal the gag rule mirrors language in the Global Democracy Promotion Act recently introduced in both the House and the Senate.

Plus economist Dambisa Moyo on how to fix the crises in global democracy and Libby Brooks on the SNP's deputy leadership election

Not exact matches

The research firm's annual study of global democracy, released on Wednesday, showed the U.S. ranking 21st in 2017 — the same as the previous year and tying with Italy.

Encompassing 167 countries, Wednesday's report found that 44.8 percent of the global population resides in flawed democracies.

«Now is not the time to get on with our lives, but to take an appropriate response in line with the ongoing threat that Russia poses to our democracy and global security interests,» Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin said in a statement.

Promoting other paradigms of fighting global jihad or making the world safe for democracy ignores the reality that no military strategy has succeed in that far - away land.

We're living in an age where we will choose between democracy and global totalitarianism.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, healthy democracies like Canada's responded as they should to global warming.

Now in its third year, the annual event is being held for key global influencers in technology, civil society, democracy promotion, and innovation.

Political democracy can be manipulated in the unipolar world to make whatever party that comes to power dependent on the global economic powers.

The «civil society» as a form of participatory democracy is a framework in which the life, the people and their communities directly participate and multilaterally and multi-dimensionally form solidarity linkages to make creative interventions in the global market process.

One of the most important tasks is to achieve true participatory democracy in order to force nation - states to accept more accountability vis - à - vis global forces for the interests of their people.

If the third wave is to lead to global democracy, comparable changes will have to occur in Confucianism and Islam.

Women are likely to be excluded from the global electronic democracy unless current female disadvantages in computer access, use and skills are drastically changed.

Huntington, Samuel P., «Democracy's Third Wave», in Diamond, Larry, Platner, Marc F., eds., The Global Resurgence of Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993) at 3.

As with the last great crisis of social democracy in the 1970s, today's stark choices are being posed as the result of a major economic shift within capitalism: the deep disruption of capital accumulation as a consequence of the crisis in global financial markets unleashed in 2008.

The attempt to know everything about everybody on a global level is a totalitarian power, whether or not you think that power is being exercised in order to reduce or to limit democracy.

He has argued that in view of the global race for development, a Ghanaian president needs time to implement his programmes and also plan the economy At International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS) conference on the theme «Democracy Justice and Development in Africa: 50 Years after Independence», former president Kufuor criticized the framers of the Constitution for failing to undertake adequate research before deciding on the duration for Presidency.

These questions are addressed in the recent report «Deepening Democracy: a Strategy for Improving the Integrity of Elections Worldwide», published by the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security, chaired by Kofi Annan.

In its mission statement the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security points out that while elections are vital to democracy, on their own they are not suDemocracy and Security points out that while elections are vital to democracy, on their own they are not sudemocracy, on their own they are not sufficient.

Abdelwahab El - Affendi is Reader in Politics, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, and ESRC / AHRC Fellow in RCUK's Global Uncertainties Programme.

While the Global Commission report on Deepening Democracy provides insightful recommendations on strategies for improving electoral integrity, we must remember that elections are just one step in the democratic process.

She writes about European Democracy and global Europe, has taught at renowned universities in Europe and the US and has 20 years experience.Her new book «Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss!

As a US citizen, I feel incredibly lucky to live in a society whose history is rooted in democratic ideals — a society that continues to benefit from the types of «elections with integrity» that the 2012 Report of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy, and Security promotes.

Mr Asiedu - Nketsia said the school would serve as a research centre for the changing global ideological perspective and realign itself with the global trends in social democracy in order to promote and strengthen the party's philosophy.

Tomorrow, Mr Blair will deliver a major speech on foreign policy on how «global values» such as democracy and the rule of law are applied, looking at everything from interventions in Kosovo to a broader policy towards Africa and climate change.

The Deepening Democracy report, published by the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy & Security, highlights that «The rise of uncontrolled political finance threatens to hollow out democracy everywhere in the world, and rob democracy of its unique strengths — political equality, the empowerment of the disenfranchised, and the ability to manage societal conflicts peacefullDemocracy report, published by the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy & Security, highlights that «The rise of uncontrolled political finance threatens to hollow out democracy everywhere in the world, and rob democracy of its unique strengths — political equality, the empowerment of the disenfranchised, and the ability to manage societal conflicts peacefullDemocracy & Security, highlights that «The rise of uncontrolled political finance threatens to hollow out democracy everywhere in the world, and rob democracy of its unique strengths — political equality, the empowerment of the disenfranchised, and the ability to manage societal conflicts peacefulldemocracy everywhere in the world, and rob democracy of its unique strengths — political equality, the empowerment of the disenfranchised, and the ability to manage societal conflicts peacefulldemocracy of its unique strengths — political equality, the empowerment of the disenfranchised, and the ability to manage societal conflicts peacefully.»

As the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy & Security noted, developing democracies often have problems that no longer are an issue in mature democracies.

As the Report of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy, and Security highlights, the integrity of elections depends at least in part on the regulation of «undisclosed and opaque political finance.»

So far, no one has shown that they understood the causes of Labour's defeat in 2015 and the problems social democracies have had all over the world following the global financial crisis.

In February 2011, Foreign Secretary William Hague confirmed that the EU had decided to continue the «Zimbabwe Restrictive and Appropriate Measures» in light of the fact that essential reforms to promote the rule of law, human rights and democracy, as agreed under the Global Political Agreement, had not yet been implementeIn February 2011, Foreign Secretary William Hague confirmed that the EU had decided to continue the «Zimbabwe Restrictive and Appropriate Measures» in light of the fact that essential reforms to promote the rule of law, human rights and democracy, as agreed under the Global Political Agreement, had not yet been implementein light of the fact that essential reforms to promote the rule of law, human rights and democracy, as agreed under the Global Political Agreement, had not yet been implemented.

Whereas the role of the individual qua world citizen has hitherto been a weak and intermittent strand in Western cosmopolitan political thought, recent concentrated interest in both the theory of democracy and citizenship in the context of the state is starting to spill over to the global plane.

The film also shows the extraordinary way in which Egyptian anti-war activists were heartened and inspired by the global demonstrations against the war, and went on to mount a protest on the outbreak of war that would prove to be a turning point in the Egyptian democracy movement in the long march towards their revolution in 2011.

In a statement, jointly signed by Mr. Francis Asong, the Executive Director of Voice Ghana and Nana Kugbeadzor - Bakateyi II, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Action for Women Empowerment (GLOWA), the group stated that the United Nations» International Day of Democracy is annually held on September 15, to raise public awareness about democracy Democracy is annually held on September 15, to raise public awareness about democracy democracy globally.

He restated the global body's commitment to also continue to promote democracy and enhance sustainable developments in the Gambia.

The NPP flagbearer made this known in separate meetings in Washington DC, with the Centre for Global Development and the National Endowment for Democracy, all leading think tanks, on Wednesday.

Dr Michael Collins is a Lecturer in British History in the Department of History, and Director for Institutional Change and Democracy at the Global Governance Institute (GGI) University College London (UCL).

Today, as in Newton's time, «it is the free flow of information that makes such a vantage point possible,» said Patricia Davis, director of the Office of Global Programs at the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.

There is certainly a lot of agreement these days that Western systems ideology is based on the dangerous idea that the limitless «noisy» anomalies of the global act should be cleaned up, corrected or demolished completely in the face of what is assumed to be the absolutely unquestionable superiority of scientific social democracy.

Hans Klein, who researches online democracy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, notes that the online election model works in the high - profile global selection of board members for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization that controls web domain names.

Old Navy is a global apparel brand that believes in the democracy of style, making fashion essentials for the family.

Old Navy is a global apparel and accessories brand that believes in the democracy of style, making high quality, must - have fashion essentials for the whole family, while delivering incredible value, and fun, unique store experiences.

Showing few visible signs of the massive rewrites, reshoots and other post-production patchwork that delayed its release from December 2012, this sleekly crafted, often nail - biting tale of global zombiepocalypse clicks on both visceral and emotional levels, resulting in an unusually serious - minded summer entertainment whose ideal audience might be described as comicbook fanboys who also listen to «Democracy Now.»

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...

A well - educated populace will not guarantee either a strong economy or global security or even a democracy (as Nazi Germany demonstrated in the preceding century), but all three are highly unlikely without one.

This is challenge that requires deep educational innovations of global willingness that promotes intrinsic reforms from its own ontological nature of the ecology of the intelligence; and become, ultimately, in the genesis of a cognitive democracy: composed by new transcultural and transpolitical symbiosis between the different civilizations that have been formed on the earthly homeland in the last six millenniums.

Understanding the true nature of education, universal values of democracy, rights and responsibilities evolved from rich experience of civilizations, philosophers, thinkers and practitioners is invaluable treasure in redefining culturally sensitive global citizenship education from which emerge conscious «global humane beings».

All believe in the values of the YLI program and share the vision of future leaders» development as a critical component underlying supporting the growth of Indonesia.Indonesia is a member of the G20, ranks as the 3rd reviews largest democracy in the world, with 240 million people and rich natural resources; it has increasingly played an important role in the global stage.

In CECIP's perspective, Brazil needs to foster Global Citizenship Education — with whatever denomination it takes -, since its methodologies and strategies for active learning, racism / sexism deconstruction, democracy reinforcement and glocal citizens formation make us more and more able to value and to use our great assets of joy, art, movement, ancestral sustainable values, attitudes and skills to increase our capacity to develop creative alternatives to unsustainable public policies.

We believe global citizenship means that all people have access to participate and influence in a world democracy.