Sentences with phrase «leveled by democracy»

According to the Democratic Voice of Burma, there was evidently some opposition to Rabinowitz working with the regime at all, leveled by democracy activists who felt that cooperating with the junta served to validate its existence.

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A flawed democracy is a country with free elections but weighed down by weak governance, an underdeveloped political culture and low levels of political participation, according to the EIU.

A 2005 study by Gregory S. Paul published in the Journal of Religion and Society stated that, «In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies,» and «In all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» Portugal.

These, then, are the several levels of unity that bind together the diverse topics of the chapters to follow: first, the curriculum of education; second, the major problems of contemporary civilization; third, the values by which education is seen as a moral enterprise; and fourth, a concept of value as devotion to worth rather than to satisfaction of desire, together with an ideal of democracy as the social expression of basic moral commitment.

... one can change human institutions, but not man; whatever the general effort of a society to render citizens equal and alike, the particular pride of individuals will always seek to escape the [common] level... In aristocracies, men are separated from one another by high, immovable barriers, in democracies, they are divided by a multitude of small, almost invisible threads that are broken every minute and are constantly changed from place to place.

More generally, the goals are: to reconquer space lost by democracy to the sphere of finance, to oppose any new abandonment of national sovereignty on the pretext of the «rights» of investors and merchants, to create a democratic space at the global level.

First, it became apparent that the highest levels of pluralism as measured by any available method are not found in those societies regarded today as very pluralistic (the Western industrialized democracies).

Going by what is happening at the global stage, there is again, a telling proof that «for democracy to succeed, a relative level of literacy, a growing middle class, and political institutions that support free speech and human rights is desirable.

All democracies in the world are Constitutional save for the UK and New Zealand, which are Parliamentary (the legislature makes the ultimate law)(Australia may qualify as they have Constitutional Law, but not defined by one document), though the level of restrictions may vary between country.

By the same token, only fragments of representative democracy exist at the EU level: the European Parliament still does not hold the power to propose new laws, whereas the European Commission is far from constituting a proper executive power that would be accountable to the legislative.

It is also why developments in the business of digital journalism matters for democracy, especially in countries like the U.S., where private sector media provide by far the largest share of news coverage of public affairs, because of the low levels of funding for public media — as commercial media organizations in many countries continue to lose revenue and lay off reporters because their legacy platforms (like print) grow less popular by the day, the future of the private media sector, an important part of our democratic systems, depends in part on its ability to find new business models and reinvent itself for a new century and new media world, online and elsewhere.

However, the difficulties they encounter in terms of delivery provide little impetus to steer away from competitive authoritarianism and introduce reforms that would promote democracy by levelling the playing field or improving accountability.

Commenting on the Conservative Party's proposals to force local authorities to hold a referendum each time they increase council tax by more than a central government controlled level, Director of Unlock Democracy, Peter Facey said:

Worried by how governments at all levels can effectively work to ensure that the people benefit in democracies, scholars from all walks of life have been billed to gather at a conference in Ibadan.

«Democracy fails or succeeds at the local level and those issues were identified by citizens who came to us and said «something's not right here,»» Muir said.

It's voting at the local level, determined by state and local level election laws and practices, that make the difference in our perennial exercise of democracy.

It's voting at the local level, determined by state and local level election laws and practices, that make the difference in our perennial exercise of democracy.

At the same time we need to work at macro levels too by bringing the ideas of Participatory Democracy into the mainstream.

Democracy Web is composed of an interactive world map and an online study guide developed by the Albert Shanker Institute and Freedom House for use by teachers, professors, and their upper secondary - and lower college - level students.

It may be the worst of times for school integration at the federal level, but could this be the best time for progressive school boards and state courts, newly energized by the national political scene, to embrace an education reform that will strengthen American democracy?

It's voting at the local level, determined by state and local level election laws and practices, that make the difference in our perennial exercise of democracy.

They also testify to its levelling effect by treating pours, masks, colours, icons, emblems and words as equal citizens in the democracy of information bytes.

As for destruction of the economy, tell me, what should a fiscal conservative believe more harmful to the economy: obsolete technology propped up by corrupt governments, subsidies and tax gifts while a scarce private resource goes to whatever wastrel wants it for free; or, applying the Law of Supply and Demand to the scarce, capitalizable, rivalrous, excludable, marketable carbon cycle to let the democracy of Free Enterprise decide the right level of its exploitation?

It's voting at the local level, determined by state and local level election laws and practices, that make the difference in our perennial exercise of democracy.

Democracy should be the fundamental principle that guides the provision and elaboration of ECEC services not only at the early childhood level by encouraging shared decision - making at local level, but also at community and political levels by making early education a matter of public debate and collective responsibility.

It's voting at the local level, determined by state and local level election laws and practices, that make the difference in our perennial exercise of democracy.