Sentences with phrase «liberal democracy make»

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

And he appears disinclined to credit the contribution to liberal democracy made — starting with the provision of a counterweight to progressive excesses — by those who cherish tradition.

Reading the diaries of Dietrich von Hildebrand from the late 1920s and early 1930s, I was powerfully struck by how the disdain of continental European Christian intellectuals for the messy pluralism of liberal democracy made too many of those thinkers vulnerable to the siren songs of the monism proposed by German National Socialism and Italian fascism.

Not exact matches

Trump does not believe in liberal democracy and his voters do not believe in liberal democracy, and that makes the liberal press part of the opposition.

I plan to continue to push the B.C. Liberal government through this fall sitting of the legislature to finally stand up for good democracy and make the shift necessary to put individual citizens at the centre of our democracy.

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

The assumptions undergirding our democracy are a somewhat paradoxical amalgamation, characterized by a free - flowing sense of moral relativism, a laissez - faire individualism and a fairly profound liberal sense of social responsibility: It is difficult enough to make sense out of these dogmas without considering our Christian faith in the saving power of Christ's cross.

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.

Perhaps the most harmful transformation, though, has been the PCUSA's adoption of decision - making procedures that mimic American - style liberal democracy rather than expressing the character and quality of ecclesial community.

I think it is appropriate in our liberal democracy for Christians, along with adherents of other religions, to make decisions about political issues on the basis of whatever considerations they find true and relevant.

Regular elections and increasingly free markets make India appear to be a more convincing exemplar of economic globalization than China, which has adopted capitalism without embracing liberal democracy.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

He perceived similarities between it and liberal democracy, and those parallels did nothing to make what we often assume to be our superior system more appealing to him.

However, if Russia does want to harm the West, and in particular if it desires the weakening of NATO and Western liberal democracy, Trump's election may not herald a fundamental change in relations, but merely make them more febrile and high risk.

Blair's project is to dismantle the Labour Party as a party based on the unions, to destroy the elements of democracy which exist within the party and to transform the British political party system, through electoral reform, to make possible a long - term governmental alliance with the Liberal Democrats and, if possible, the Heseltine - Clarke wing of the Tory Party.

Ming has made this decision - as all his political decisions - in the interest of his Party and Liberal Democracy throughout Britain.

Shanker thought of himself as a liberal, indeed a Socialist; but for many liberals he seemed a racist conservative, as he maintained his fierce anti-Communist stance, supported American military power in defense of democracy, and insisted on the primacy of the trade - union movement in making a better society.

Therefore, while democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity were overlapping and shared goals among the spectrum of secular, liberal, and Islamist groups (Alexander, 20120), scant discussion of the content or form of such wide - ranging frames were made available to the spectrum of protestors who participated in the revolts.

Projects that can seem self - evidently good to a liberal — such as democracy, peace - making, concern for the environment, the liberation of women, or freedom of speech — can seem evil or even Satanic to a fundamentalist.

Splitting his time between Paris and his native Cluj, Mircea Cantor makes work that centers around themes of cultural history, memory, and displacement, echoing his upbringing in Romania during its tumultuous transition from state socialism to liberal democracy.

In this regard, curiously, was a point made in an article titled «The Whitney Biennial for Angry Women,» which criticized the biennial for including Dawoud Bey's portrait of Barack Obama as a sign of a presumably despised «liberal democracy» and «open code for the newest American myth: the multicultural, progressive future.»

To paraphrase my own words from my Wall Street Journal op - ed last December... Scientists may not like it, but Mooney's analysis explains precisely what it means to live in a liberal democracy; when it comes to making decisions, especially big decisions, politics must always trump science.

He wants to discredit American democracy and make us weaker in terms of leading the liberal democratic order.

As enthusiasm for deliberative democracy in liberal societies is «driven by a perceived distance between the drives and motivations of citizens and the political decisions made in their name,» live - blogging in all its informational immediacy may be able to narrow the temporal distance between lawmaker and subject, as the latter is able to instantly respond to the actions of the former.

Given the Liberal government's intention to make fundamental changes to our democracy without a referendum, his comments might be better regarded as indicia of a despot.

«The IPB has rightly been heavily scrutinised, however, it is important to remember that individual freedom and liberty is a key aspect of liberal democracies, and the starting point should therefore be the principle of protection from intrusion by the state, with specific exceptions being made only where it can be justified.