Sentences with phrase «institution in a functioning democracy»

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«Trust in political institutions is an essential component of well - functioning democracies.

Secretive donations to political campaigns and organizations perpetuate perceptions of corruption, eroding the public's trust in government institutions as is necessary for a functioning market and a participatory democracy.

Western countries, for all their difficulties, benefit from established civil society, functioning democracy, the rule of law, relatively high levels of trust in political institutions, and some degree of equality between the sexes, it suggests.

These ideas are likely to have left an impression on the public, perhaps fueling cynicism about politics and about the democratic process, and undermining the trust in institutions and in one another, across lines of difference, that is essential for the functioning of representative democracy.