Sentences with phrase «liberal democracy»

Its most obvious feature is the advocacy of the free market system allied with liberal democracy or authoritarian rule, as the only way of economic management for the entire globe.

I regard liberal democracy as a pearl of great price.

Some suggested that his call for a renewed moral basis for liberal democracy had authoritarian implications.

Western - type liberal democracy in its current form remains the most tested and successful accountable governance model in history.

Liberal democracy doesn't have the resources to sustain its own purpose.

Might the prediction of an «end of history» and of a uniform move in the direction of liberal democracy make a comeback?

Only the 1 per cent, so the argument goes, genuinely experiences the kind of freedom that liberal democracy promises to every individual.

And yet, American liberal democracy has nonetheless always made available the tools to nurture those essential moral foundations of freedom.

Such punitive measures hardly reflect the values of an authentic liberal democracy.

Liberal democracy provides an attractive political ideal for many peoples throughout the world.

He expressed the concern that liberal democracy becomes vulnerable if it loses touch with deeper metaphysical warrants.

Therefore, sustainable reforms do not have to imply a transition to mainstream liberal democracy.

There has always been a group for whom the promise of liberal democracy has meant very little — and that group is getting bigger.

The Jewish identification with liberal democracy is historically natural.

The «end of history» thesis, where any contradictions could be easily resolved within the framework of Western - type liberal democracy, thus remains far from attained.

Transparency of action and judgment and the ability to openly test all of the evidence is absolutely necessary in liberal democracies as such processes hinder shoddy practices, poor conduct and bad government.

As the Berlin Wall fell, Francis Fukuyama proclaimed the end of history — «the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.»

It was only after I started to look into how controversial issues like abortion and divorce were handled in other liberal democracies that I realized how my dean's slogan has been used not only to silence religiously grounded views, but to silence all opposition to abortion.

It is also important to point out two theoretical elements that are behind the current political debates, not just in Catalonia, but in secessionist processes in many liberal democracies:

Interstate conflicts between liberal democracies occur but never assume a violent manifestation, and certainly never descend into a full - scale war.

What do you do when some people want liberal democracy, others want secular authoritarianism, and yet others want Sharia law without any of these groups comprising a majority or even a substantial plurality?

The commercial and artistic elite in Yangon and Mandalay often want something like a Thai - style liberal democracy which retains a central places for Theravada Buddhism and perhaps for the Tatmadaw as well.

If liberal democracies today can no longer sustain this conviction, that is one thing.

On Liberal Democracy In a Christian Century interview, Nicholas Wolterstorff, longtime professor of philosophical theology at Yale, says: «I don't agree, then, with the view of many political theorists that when making up our minds about political issues or debating them in public, we have to appeal to some body of principles that we all accept, or would all accept if we did things right.

In my view, no thinker better highlights the necessity or dignity of intermediary associations (a conservative theme par excellence) nor provides a deeper account of the dependence of modern liberal democracy upon the «moral capital» of premodern times.

A true aristocrat, he bitterly opposed state absolutism, without necessarily embracing liberal democracy as the alternative.

But in the final analysis, there is less danger to life, limb, and faith in liberal democracy rightly understood than in a hypothetical Christian monarchy.

Reflecting both countries» singular histories, journalists Iris Deroeux and Jelani Cobb and historians Pap Ndiaye and Benjamin Stora will debate issues regarding political representation of minorities and explore how these questions figure among the challenges facing liberal democracies today.

«But I do think that Australia, along with other liberal democracies around the world, have got to take the threat of foreign interference seriously.»

But she says it does not always sit well in a parliamentary liberal democracy where important disagreement about the substance and content of laws and policies should be publicly ventilated and debated — particularly Australia's «disavowal» of self - determination.

Postconciliar orthodoxy, then, does not seek to critique liberal democracy from a re-emergent anti-liberal vantage point.

Our theology warns us not to accept Stout's liberal democracy at face value, and our sense of history suggests that things are not as bad as MacIntyre and Hauerwas make them out to be.

What worries us about liberal democracy is that political leaders, especially democratically elected ones, find it difficult to admit their mistakes.

If this is all that republicanism has to offer then it becomes barely distinguishable from existing liberal democracies.

These countries are cited to us as reassuring models of such funding in liberal democracies much like ours.

But it is no doubt important for China's leadership to be seen shaking hands with leaders of respected liberal democracies.

May 3, 2018 Mark MacCarthy argues that big data is inherently political — and is forcing liberal democracy toward communitarianism.

Reason has somehow become tyrannical; this tyranny manifest itself in broad daylight in ideocratic totalitarianism, but it also threatens liberal democracy.

The fact that the Curia is now making its peace with Fascism shows that the Vatican trusts the new political realities far more than did the former liberal democracy with which it could not come to terms.

And by «democratic» I mean liberal democracy — i.e., a multiparty system, regular competitive elections, and civil liberties.