Sentences with phrase «mean liberal democracy»
And by «democratic» I mean liberal democracy — i.e., a multiparty system, regular competitive elections, and civil liberties.
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Related to that seminal work were arguments from within the liberal (meaning the Enlightenment) tradition, most notably: Smith (economics), Hume (skepticism), Tocqueville (democracy), and Mill (freedom).
The class interest, within the political spectrum of Western democracies, is on the left; in America this means «liberal,» in current terminology.
Perhaps fascism represents a permanent temptation of modern politics, the seduction to leave behind the ambiguities and trade «offs of prosaic liberal democracy for a true (and truly destructive) «politics of meaning.»
There has always been a group for whom the promise of liberal democracy has meant very little — and that group is getting bigger.
DPT also stipulates that interstate conflicts between two liberal democracies may emerge, but these are settled by peaceful rather than violent means.
What do you mean by «liberal democracy»?
The political ideology of the people who sat on the left were more liberal which at the time tended to mean anti monarchy, pro democracy, pro free trade and in America it meant smaller federal government and stronger states rights.
«Liberal» and «Conservative» as applied to US politics are just labels, they don't mean anything, the same way Democrats and Republicans don't have any relation to supporting more democracy over representation or vice versa.
To sustain voting in liberal democracies, it is vital to give voters immediate feedback on what their votes mean.
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.