Sentences with phrase «modern democracy as»

Better than any other conservative theorist, Tocqueville appreciated both the comparative justice of modern democracy as well as the threat it poses to the higher excellences of human nature.

Not exact matches

McKinsey says specifically that multi-year sustained rise in the savings rate, what they term austerity, is needed to solve the problem, and of course, as we all know, in modern democracies, that option doesn't seem to exist.

The message of Von Hayek, clear, can be summarised like this despite his good intentions, the moderated English social - democracy leads to the same disaster as German Nazism, to the modern serfdom.

Modern civil rights and liberation movements thus can be understood as struggles against patriarchal deformations of democracy.

Although patriarchy as a complete sociopolitical system has been modified in the course of history, the classical politics of patriarchal domination has decisively shaped — and still does so today — modern Euro - American forms of democracy.

D. Kagan, modern liberal democracies have abandoned that ideals (i agree with his assessment,) choosing to take men «as they are».

Although some educators still cling to it with fervent tenacity, most regard it as out of keeping with the conditions and needs of modern industrial democracy.

In a series of books, Maritain argued that modern democracy of the American type can not be understood apart from the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which works in secular history as yeast in dough.

A complex modern democracy is at a serious disadvantage in dealing with autocratic states as well as in expeditiously conducting its own internal affairs, unless it possesses strong executive powers which are not hedged about in matters of detailed policy and administration by legislative and judicial agencies.

As applied to modern democracy, the idea is that the moral legitimacy of a law or public policy can not be established merely by showing that it was put into place through the workings of democratic institutions.

As Alexis de Tocqueville points out in Democracy in America, however, we modern democratic persons refuse to defer to the privileged claims of aristocrats even or especially when they're deserved.

«First, the word democracy, as used by modern peoples, has a wider meaning than in the classical treatises on the science of government.

Governance (which, as explained in my previous piece, implies the deconstruction of modern - style government, of the social contract and of the value of representation): Africans want to be treated as equals; they are not sure that «democracy» is the way to go: democracy tends to break their traditions and so far hasn't delivered order and socioeconomic progress.

Despite his tempered endorsement of democracy, Solzhenitsyn emphasizes that he embraces it (as Tocqueville does) primarily because he sees it as inevitable in the modern age and hopes it can be ennobled by the proper kinds of controls.

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.

Thus modern South Africa owes its existence as a functioning, multiracial democracy partly to the braiding together of two epic sports stories — one from a largely black game, the other from a historically white one.

These challenges were done legally and openly, as one might expect in a modern democracy... but the responses were not as one might expect.

Keynes offered the Attlee Government a macro-economic framework for post-war recovery; Hayek's «market society» offered Mrs Thatcher's Tories a roadmap away from post-war social democratic serfdom; Giddens's «Third Way» socio - philosophy allowed «New» Labour to synthesise or transcend the old dogmas of state - centric social democracy and neo-liberalism»; and Phillip Blond gave a critique of the market and the state in order for Cameron to claim «society» and its renewal as the key priority of modern Conservatism.

Modern moderate republicans are not as elitist as Madison in their conception of democracy, but I think that tendency to elitism has not been entirely erased from the republican revival.

The White House has appointed Chanan Weissman, who formerly served as a spokesperson for the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, as its first Modern Orthodox Jewish liaison.

Truth is Atiku should be celebrated as one the heroes of our modern democracy.

But Nana Akufo - Addo on Wednesday, in a statement signed and issued in Accra, said the result of the election, which had resulted in a change in government after eight years of the Obama - led Democratic government, had strengthened even further the status of the United States of America, as a bastion of democracy in the modern world.

Speaking further, Governor Fayose described INEC under the present APC government as the champion of electoral malpractices, saying «INEC, security agencies need to purge themselves of all these putrid behaviours and face the reality of modern day democracy.

... as well as obvious political realities (wealthy people have political clout, far more so than high - income people; because the retirees are included and in modern western democracies Baby Boomers are basically the dominant political class votes-wise);...

«We know that the system as it's currently structured under our state law literally can not keep up with the reality of our modern democracy,» de Blasio said, bemoaning the state's «arcane» electoral laws kept in place by entrenched lawmakers in Albany.

On the left: Total government as exemplified by a strong centralized government, (command and control) exemplified historically by monarchies and their nobles which in modern times have been replaced with one of Marx's designs (fascism, communism, or socialism (total democracy)-RRB-.

And part of the issue, as pointed out in the documentary, is that we still don't have a truly functioning democracy in modern governments, even in the U.S., where we loudly trumpet the fact that we are a model for the world in terms of governance and civic engagement.

By mapping the remarkable run of the icon of Justice, a woman with scales and sword, and by tracing the development of public spaces dedicated to justice — courthouses — the authors explore the evolution of adjudication into its modern form as well as the intimate relationship between the courts and democracy.