Sentences with phrase «much on democracy»

I should have said in my apply above what is Friendship PCS doing since we have some data on them and not much on Democracy Prep since they are newer to DC.

Much of the current theological critique of liberal society focuses not so much on democracy as a system of political representation as on liberalism as a form of society that operates, or seeks to operate, without a substantive conception of the good.

Not exact matches

If, say, you have children and you want regulation to protect them from the rising sea levels predicted to submerge billions of homes, wars over resources, and so on, you have to realize that however much we call politicians leaders, in democracies they follow the people.

But as political scientist Francis Fukuyama has shown in his research on how democracies function, it's often much more important to pay attention to bureaucrats than politicians when evaluating how well governments function.

And it's much easier to do that than to say, «Well listen, we have free markets and we have democracy and both those things are incredibly messy and no one is really controlling it,» but if I give you a few symbols and attach a name to it, all of a sudden you have an evil villain that you can pin the blame on.

Critics from the left have noted that corporations already have too much influence on our political system, and that encouraging these unelected corporate titans to use their ever larger megaphones only further erodes our democracy.

My mentor Michael Dooley once observed of employee participation in corporate democracy that workers will be indifferent to most corporate decisions that do not bear directly on working conditions and benefits: «As to the majority of managerial policies concerning, for example, dividend and investment policies, product development, and the like, the typical employee has a much interest and as much to offer as the typical purchaser of light bulbs.»

Well, if you're a tech company, then it's much easier to regulate your product without worries about infringing on free speech and freedom of the press, particularly if it can be proven that Facebook is bad for mental health and perhaps even for democracy.

The convocation of an international colloquium of his work on Totalitarian Democracy and After demonstrates as much.

Much that is anything but true democracy may hide behind the fagade of representative democracy; on the other hand, a society which is not democratically constituted in the normal sense of the word may sometimes achieve what a democracy aims at.

Forty - five leading pro-life advocates, including Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council, James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Clarke Forsythe of Americans United for Life, Wanda Franz of the National Right to Life Committee, and Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition, signed a much heralded joint «Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern» published in First Things in 1996 in which the primary legal complaint was made that Roe «wounded American democracy» by removing the issue of abortion from «democratic concern.»

Despite the rhetoric of democracy there is a lack of transparency m discussions of officials with the IMF / WB authorities and their decisions regarding conditionalities often imposed on the debtor countries without clear exposure even to Parliament and its select committees, much less to the general public affected by them.

He highlighted Britain's achievements as a «pluralist democracy which places great value on freedom of speech, freedom of political affiliation and respect for the rule of law, with a strong sense of the individual's rights and duties, and of the equality of all citizens before the law and noted that there was much in common here with Catholic social teaching.

The best book on democracy and the best book on America, Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, is pretty much a handbook on that kind of ndemocracy and the best book on America, Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, is pretty much a handbook on that kind of nDemocracy in America, is pretty much a handbook on that kind of nostalgia.

Much as we stress democracy, democracy is affronted on every hand by factors such as these.

On April 3, he spoke powerfully on their behalf, but also about much larger themes, particularly his high expectations for America's democracy, and how it was falling shorOn April 3, he spoke powerfully on their behalf, but also about much larger themes, particularly his high expectations for America's democracy, and how it was falling shoron their behalf, but also about much larger themes, particularly his high expectations for America's democracy, and how it was falling short:

They turned out to be based on erroneous information (weapons of mass destruction) and a dreamy idealism (democracy)» there was and is much to criticize» but the arguments for war in 2003 were articulate and admitted of just war analysis.

Democracies with muslim minorities tend to have secular leaning voters and few elected muslim officials to begin with, so it's not a big stretch to imagine most of the latter voting based on party conviction much more than on religious conviction.

It blots out so much of what needs to be understood about Tony Blair - the journey he went on from social democracy to Christian democracy, his reconciliation of the apparent contradiction in «if it works we will do it», and «because it is the right thing to do».

In the US, the Democracy Collaborative has done much work on the challenge of bringing these efforts to democratise capital to scale with the aim of developing a new economic paradigm.

Yet the demand for a revolution, channelling the kind of violence, looting and murder seen in London and on other UK cities» streets two years ago against «the source of (the rioters») grievance» is much more delusional, much more seriously irresponsible towards the youth whom he admires for their refusal to take democracy seriously.

That is much easier said than done, not least because conventional social democracy on many parts of the European continent is facing its own uphill electoral battles.

And finally we also agree with those who have studied inequality and found that it undermines societal cohesion, puts pressure on democracy as the rich and powerful gain so much say, and ultimately undermines growth because of the sheer inefficiency of putting so much wealth in the hands of people who literally can't spend it all.

Since those countries are democracies on paper, and were much inspired from their western neighbours when they did their democratic transition, what prevents those countries from being fully democratic according to The Economist?

India has survived as a democracy since 1947 (apart from a couple of years of emergency rule) and Brazil since the mid-1980s for much the same reason: both put limits on the power of the government and provided guarantees for individual rights.

The label «anti-democratic» is very much subjective and depends on the undertanding of democracy by those who judge.

Laziridis says New Democracy is committed to bringing the deficit down and to «much of the structural change suggested by the troika» but calls some of the proposals «ill - advised» and warns in colourful language that: «if Greece explodes, it will be 100 % blame on those who do not let a country breathe before they operate.»

One reason why so many democratic experiments have failed recently is that they put too much emphasis on elections and too little on the other essential features of democracy.

If the success of a representative democracy hinges on the informed consent of the governed, it is critical that the public know as much as possible about the information used and the processes by which its representatives spend tax dollars and act on policy recommendations.

«Attorney General Schneiderman is right — for years in Albany there has been too much patting ourselves on the back for passing piecemeal reforms, while the problem of corruption only grows worse,» said Lawrence Norden, deputy director of the Brennan Center's Democracy Program.

There is much common ground, too, with the ideas for «community - wealth building» being developed very concretely by the Democracy Collaborative in the US, though there is a stronger emphasis in their work on the need to root capital in specific places than one usually finds in the alternative liberal tradition.

So much for FDR's principles — found on his monument in DC — that are such an inspirational foundation for democracy: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, Freedom from Fear.

A Labour source said: «Having placed so much focus on «party democracy» under Jeremy Corbyn, Unite are trying to flood local parties and ensure the sword of Damocles is hung over of the heads of MPs — do as we say or we will deselect you.»

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On Sunday, Greeks voted in a referendum which has been as much a corruption of democracy as their practice of voting two - and - a-half millennia ago was a noble innovation.

He isn't much influenced by social democracy though I would hope egalitarian social liberals can get a hearing But the current public vacuum is whether he has a medium or longterm political strategy for the party, and what it is, though perhaps a lot depends on whether the tory - ld coalition is still solid in 2013 and 2014

Lawmaker representing Ijebu Ode / Odogbolu / Ijebu North East at the House of Representatives, Hon. Kehinde Odeneye, has called on Nigerians not to appraise President Muhammadu Buhari based on his democracy day speech because there is nothing really much to say about a year into his administration where he was so much inundated with the task of putting what was abruptly left by the previous administration back into perspectives.

There is no need to dwell much on comparisons of how much time he has spent cloistered with very wealthy campaign contributors who are further undermining our democracy.

«I will not take lectures about democracy from a government elected on only 24 % of those eligible to vote - and only 10 % of those eligible to vote in Scotland - much less, of course, than the proposed thresholds that they wish to impose on strike ballots.»

And if the dinosaurs like Prescott fight bitterly against any extension of democracy and win, how much chance will there be of a referendum on real democracy in the future?

The so - called Enlightenment Project persisted throughout much of the 20th century; in the 1980s and»90s, social theorists still maintained that respectful open dialogue on foundational matters would advance truth and strengthen democracy.

Democracy Prep efficiently spends money as close to the student as possible, spending the most on great teachers and much less on its comparatively lean administration.

«I think democracy is a wonderful thing but consensus is much better,» board member Irvin Bell said as he introduced the topic on Tuesday.

Let's hope that Sam Dillon's excellent article is the beginning of much closer scrutiny of the influence of billionaires, who are accountable to no one, on the institution which in the words of Thomas Jefferson is «the anvil upon which democracy is forged.»

He has argued that failed banks should not be bailed out, Lehman's collapse was not a disaster, AIG should be declared bankrupt, that naked short selling is not a problem, that backdating isn't so bad, insider trading should be legal, many corporate CEOs are underpaid, global solutions are worse than local solutions, Warren Buffett is overrated, Michael Milken is a great American, the collapse of the hedge fund was not a scandal, hedge funds are over-regulated, education is overrated by the educated, bonuses at successful Wall Street's firms are deserved and possibly undersized, management buyouts are boons to the economy, Enron's management was victimized by an over-zealous prosecution, Sarbanes - Oxley should be repealed, corporate compliance culture is a disaster, shareholder democracy is overrated, hostile takeovers ought to be revived, the market is permanently moving away from public ownership of equity in corporations, private partnerships are on the rise, public ignorance is encouraged and manipulated by governments and corporations, experts overrate expertise, regulatory agencies are controlled by the businesses they supposedly regulate and Wall Street is much more fun than people give it credit for.

If (when) that time comes and the Times has still not done much on the matter, that situation would fall far short of the role that the Times should aspire to play, in my view, if we are to have a healthy democracy, a responsible press, and a sustainable climate.

Construction of a planned dam on the Kura (Mtkvari) River in the Turkish province of Ardahan would redirect much of the river's water from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea, leading to «an ecological and economic catastrophe» in Georgia, officials from the Georgian Green Party are cited as claiming in a recent article by the Georgian publication Democracy & Freedom Watch.

If The New York Times values healthy democracy, it will start to do a much better job of informing (and educating) the public on these immensely important matters.

Instead, by taking a dogmatic, anti-intellectual point of view on many issues and demonizing those who disagree with him (though not much in this particular book), he has become a polarizing force, taking us further from the crucial compromises that are needed to pave the way to real environmental progress in a democracy.

Last week, the FBI arrested blogger Kevin Cogill (a / k / a Skwerl) of Culver City, Calif., on suspicion of violating a federal copyright law for posting nine tracks to his blog from the unreleased and much anticipated Guns N» Roses album Chinese Democracy.