Sentences with phrase «informed electorate»

«The purpose of the registration requirement — increasing transparency, openness, and public accountability in the electoral process and thus promoting an informed electorate — is pressing and substantial, and the registration requirement is rationally connected to this objective.

We get votes by having an informed electorate.

Point a gun at the public and say «you will embrace our collective future or else `, and an informed electorate may make sure nobody achieves power who advocates this.

And as the U.S. Supreme Court said decades ago, democracy «depends on an informed electorate.»

Today 40 state constitutions explicitly refer to the need for an informed electorate; 13 of them, according to a 2003 Carnegie Corporation report, «state that the central purpose of their educational system is to promote good citizenship, democracy, and free government.»

Every imaginable reason has been proposed: to prepare students for a career, to ensure an informed electorate, to provide parents with a de facto daycare service, and, most commonly, «I don't know.»

Thus, students will play a direct role in helping build an informed electorate!

We all want a more broadly and deeply informed electorate.

Informed electorate suggests engaged electorate, which should translate into higher participation.

In its appeal, the NYCLU said not knowing why the grand jury ruled not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the death of Garner was «incompatible with the understanding that democracy works best when public policy choices are undertaken by an informed electorate and their representatives.»

The Museum of Political Corruption established the Nellie Bly Award in 2017 to recognize the role investigative reporting plays in rooting out high - level corruption and graft, exposing flaws in social justice, and maintaining an informed electorate.

So much for an informed electorate.

Preventing a demagogue is hard in democracy, because democracy requires informed electorate, and many people do not care (or are prevented by economic hardships of life) to get informed enough, and / or many questions are really complicated and might have complicated long - term consequences (like: will abandoning Pacific Trade agreement allow China to control trade in Pacific by bilateral agreements)

Public Broadcasting is an essential ingredient in maintaining an informed electorate in America.

Madison's vision of democracy depended on an informed electorate «examining public characters and measures.»

Hence, the use of technology for good purposes runs into three tough problems at once: (1) balancing private wants and social needs; (2) harmonizing the plans made by individual experts with the decisions of the public as a whole; and (3) devising long - range policies in a political system which responds best to immediately felt needs, fears, and wants and which has a generally ill - informed electorate.

But the press has special protection because it is expected to clarify, to set in context, to suggest alternatives, to seek out informed expressions and viewpoints on all sides, in other words, to help develop Madison's informed electorate.

He adds that «democracy, to be effective, needs to have an informed electorate.»

This is in the sense that, The People's Forum - Ghana, considers such «Contentious statements» as economic speculations and as a key element of our national discourse and as such its settlement will enhance the awareness of the citizenry and better inform the electorates in their decision making and as well eliminate the damning effect it could have on our economy.

Not exact matches

This transparency enables the electorate to make informed decisions...» Gaps in transparency and accountability can expose Amazon to reputational and business risks that threaten long - term shareholder value.

Also, «It is not man's prerogative to inform the Deity that consequent upon a mandate from the electorate, agreement has been reached at cabinet level concerning His nature and attributes.»

It will also give the average electorate the opportunity to appreciate what government has done and equally weigh them with assessable promises to inform their decision come December 2016.

«It is obvious that the NPP realizes their flagbearer's limitations with regards to having the sort of grasp of national issues that will position him to convincingly engage in a debate with his opponents in order to allow for the electorate to make informed choices.»

The debate seeks to give the candidates an opportunity sell their policies and programmes to electorate to help them make an informed decision to before they go to the polls on December 7.

The Electoral Commission had no time to write to voters informing them of their new electorates.

The Conservatives have calculated that it's too politically difficult to upset the most informed and active cohort of the electorate.

It's a bit late to get the electorate better informed for this referendum, but it won't be long before another one looms.

With the state and various cities on the brink of insolvency, it's imperative that the electorate become more informed and demand that school districts and teachers unions do their negotiating in public.

«In California, when legislators can't come up with a solution, it ends up going on the ballot,» says Bonilla, who worries about lawmakers abdicating their responsibilities, and the electorate voting on issues they're not well informed about.

If we want to continue as a democracy, the people must be informed, sometimes in spite of their inclinations, and the electorate must be challenged to do something about our climate crisis.

But I'm seriously concerned that the kind of arguments used in the Keystone debate don't bode well for the prospect of a well - informed US electorate on what will be required to keep CO2 below about 450 ppm.

«Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed.

Moreover, I would suggest that those of us in «the electorate» who are well - informed about this issue are well aware that changes in public policy — including putting a price on carbon pollution, directly regulating GHG emissions, and providing effective support for the development and deployment of efficiency and renewable energy technologies on a scale at least comparable to the subsidies that fossil fuels have received for a century — are far more effective than the options that any individual can currently choose, and are in fact crucial to making more such options available to all of us.

Through advocacy and education, RTKNS encourages the use and development of freedom - of - information legislation to foster a better informed and more politically active electorate in Nova Scotia and to improve the quality of public and private decision making in the province.