Sentences with phrase «nature of democracy»

Ghana needs PPP and NDP members in Parliament to advocate for needed changes to the 1992 Constitution, ensure that the health, social welfare and employment needs of the majority of our people become priorities and affirm the multi-party nature of our democracy.

Following the Brexit vote and terrorist attacks in Manchester and London, the incidence of hate crimes in the UK has risen significantly, highlighting the fragile nature of our democracy.

Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy By Pierre Manent Rowan & Littlefield, 148 pages, $ 40 To love democracy well, it is necessary to love it moderately.»

In books that include Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy (1982), An Intellectual History of Liberalism (1987), The City of Man (1994), A World Beyond Politics?

So concludes French philosopher Pierre Manent in Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy, his meditation on the thought of the....

Despite these pressing issues, I want to revisit this morning the more important matter of the President's dog, Bo, less for what it says about this President or his two lovely children, than for what it says about the nature of democracy.

John Keane is a politics professor and author of 10 books, including several on the nature of democracy, and a political biography of Tom Paine.

Presenting what he claims is the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, he attempts to challenge many of our Western assumptions about the origins and nature of democracy and political institutions.

There is also some dispute about the nature of democracy in Singapore.

If a party wins that ran on a dictatorship form of government or that only that party has the right to be elected ever again, it inherently contradicts the nature of a democracy.

Some might argue that the competition has monopolized the political arena in some societies, but that is the nature of democracy.

But the episode has once again opened questions on the nature of democracy.