Sentences with phrase «many emerging democracies»

The standard by which emerging democracies are judged is not whether they hold elections, but whether the losers respect the result.

«You will think that a Parliament with such a huge majority is not good for an emerging democracy particularly from the point of view of checks and balances but we are not living in normal times.The mandate that is handed to the New Patriotic Party is a mandate of oversight and accountability.

Anti-American anger may jeopardise the sensitive and volatile relationship between America and the newly - emerging democracies in the Arab world, birthed with such difficulty during the Arab Spring.

However, President Akufo - Addo indicated that as one of the public figures most constantly vilified in sections of the Ghanaian media, and one who, ironically, was a principal actor in the repeal of the law, he continues to insist that its repeal was necessary in the public interest in our emerging democracy.

Economic reforms and new technology may allow the centrally planned economies and the emerging democracies to develop without further harm to the environment

«To accomplish this will require working in partnership with Russia and other emerging democracies,» concludes a recent statement by the US state department.

In 1994, he documented the emerging democracy and Nelson Mandela's campaign for presidency.

Now Loic is the agent for SixApart in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (see the post directly below) and so I throw out to challenge to his new partners — since they are making their company international — and to their investor — who understands the power citizens media bring to emerging democracies — and to to other blogging companies.

In emerging democracies and transitioning states throughout the world, the Judicial Reform Index is an innovative tool developed by the ABA Rule of Law Initiative to assess states» judicial reform and judicial independence.

Not exact matches

Nigeria is growing and liberalizing its economy, having only recently emerged from its military past as a new democracy.

It was Arendt's remarkable ability to face the double tradition from which she emerged with a sharp - eyed focus that characterizes much of her work: its generosity for the practice of democracy and her fierce determination to explain for herself as well as for others the failure of her former culture to endure despite its qualities.

In recent years the Cold War has ended, a «new world order» with a distinct swing toward democracy has begun to emerge, and human rights has assumed ever greater importance on the international scene.

«88 Niebuhr reaffirmed his «pessimistic faith» in the democratic idea, but he concluded that democracies in the emerging third world will remain an ideal more often than an operative reality.

The essay suggests that if and when China emerges as a democracy, it will be a «communal type» of «Confucian democracy,» however oxymoronic the term may sound to people outside of China.

Religion News Service: Middle East riots fueled by competition between radicals, moderates as new democracies emerge Anti-American riots that have spread to more than a dozen countries across the Middle East are a sign of fissures between radical and more moderate Islamists that are vying for power as their societies undergo change, Middle East experts say.

And it suggested the possibility of important alliances with the new democracies of central and eastern Europe, even as it likely precipitated new thinking in emerging powers like India and China.

Liberal democracy, humanism, even (ironically) the separation of church and state — all emerged from the matrix of a self - consciously Christian civilization.

Always more pleased with itself than its record would warrant, social democracy must now make a true reckoning with that history if it is to emerge from the current crisis as a continuing force for progressive change.

In the late 2000s a two - part consensus emerged between academics, policy makers and practitioners in the realm of democracy promotion.

Liberal - democracies are, in a sense, the highest form of a cohesive international society (or inner circle thereof) that has ever emerged in history.

What is clear is that a radical programme for British and continental European social democracy is unlikely to emerge from «ivory tower» blueprints, rather through a constant process of «bold, persistent experimentation», in FDR's memorable phrase.

Political disagreements have been exemplified by the controversies regarding the role of democracy promotion in budget support during the «Arab Spring», or the diverging views on how to engage with emerging international development actors such as China.

DPT also stipulates that interstate conflicts between two liberal democracies may emerge, but these are settled by peaceful rather than violent means.

On the other hand, a very broad coalition had emerged in the centre left Grassroots Alliance around upholding party democracy, members» rights and the broad - based character of the Labour Party.

What is emerging is the outline of a left Keynesian policy, based on substantial public investment, a national investment bank and regional banks, the reform of company law to secure pensions and prevent dividend abuse, a proactive industrial strategy, the promotion of co-operatives and industrial democracy.

Hayek feared that increasing government intervention in the economy would inevitably lead to the undermining of democracy, but within a few years his views were regarded as old - fashioned and irrelevant to the emerging consensus.

People think, «why bother,» said Griffin, the co-author of «Washington & Napoleon: Leadership in the Age of Revolution,» who said that kind of disengagement was also what permitted an ultimately despotic figure like Napoleon to emerge from a plebiscitary democracy rather than the electoral system that produced Washington.

Beyond SLA emerging, over the ages, as some dark angel in the Yoruba black - or - white political cosmos, the famed orator from Ogbomoso would appear fairly charged with subverting parliamentary democracy.

I believe in the strength our democracy, and I am confident that Ghana will emerge from tomorrow's polls even stronger and more respected among the comity of nations.

«Also, there are good candidates who can not emerge through the poor internal democracy in some of the popular parties.

«Our party joins family, friends, well - wishers, and associates in celebrating the retired general, who has emerged as a bastion of democracy, good governance and development in Nigeria and beyond.

The emerging anti-government movement which is the shining hope of extending democracy should not be encouraged to campaign or support a device (the av referendum) aimed to curtailing reform by limiting itself to a «reform» that is actually worse than the status quo.

I know that that is Russia has only recently emerged from absolute dictatorship but in a world which contains the EU and a Labour government not noted for any regard for democracy, it is not mentaly so very far away.

As the world shifted to the Cold War, and capitalist democracies jockeyed against communist dictatorships, antibiotics emerged as political instruments.

This ranking is not as high as it should be but is still rather good for a middle - income, young democracy that has so recently emerged from decades of Communist rule.

He made a number of films in the newly emerging «socialist democracies» of Eastern Europe.

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The second part of the UDEHR is made up of a catalogue of more than forty emerging human rights, divided into six groups, all with the common theme of democracy.

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In the mid-1990s as the World Wide Web emerged and grew, many people saw vast potential of an information infrastructure to either invigorate democracy and open opportunity or to solidify a «two - tier society» in which some reap the benefits and others are further disenfranchised.

Jeffersonian democracy may spontaneously bloom in the desert, or — more likely — an authoritarian regime not materially different from that of Mubarak might emerge after a period of instability.

They are on the cusp of an indeterminate language, making an appeal for personal liberation in one form or another, even as Korea has emerged from its military past to the democracy and corporate leader it has become on the stage of a new world order.

A rare and heady mix, to be sure, but what I eventually emerged with was this reluctant sense that despite all its horrible faults — My Lai and Guantanamo, water - boarding and drone strikes, not to mention the current American political polarization between Occupy and the Tea Party — empirically speaking, the West has the only viable governmental systems on the planet that comes even close to the practical democracy that will be needed to solve the problem.

A «new class» of epistemic problems emerges from the evolution of democracy, and the intersection of democracy with science, rather than from any substantive change in the scientific method or the nature of the resulting scientific knowledge.

Her campaign forced open Georgia's closed - door political process to include the voices of civil society — an important victory for a young democracy emerging from the former Communist bloc.

You want to spend trillions on carbon taxes, ruin people's lives, and destroy the economies of first world democracies to lower future temps by 1 tenth of 1 degree, which will be more than offset by increased emissions from emerging 3rd world economies?

An emerging academic literature is concerned with answering this question and includes the study of more effective collective action, concepts of environmental citizenship and participatory democracy.

The concept of deliberative democracy has emerged as a technique to both build consensus and help engage minority views, and involve these views in decisions.

«New aspects of the product will emerge,» she said, in her role as a senior consultant for the Center for Digital Democracy.