Sentences with phrase «of global democracy»

Statement of Latanya Mapp Frett, Vice President — Global, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, on the introduction of the Global Democracy Promotion Act in the Senate:

The research firm's annual study of global democracy, released on Wednesday, showed the U.S. ranking 21st in 2017 — the same as the previous year and tying with Italy.

Every year, the firm's Democracy Index provides a snapshot of global democracy by scoring countries on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.

Not exact matches

Associated with the hardline policy of containment, Kennan was nevertheless a critic of democracy and a noninterventionist who said that American power was the source, not the solution, to global disorder, and that America had much to apologize for.

Encompassing 167 countries, Wednesday's report found that 44.8 percent of the global population resides in flawed democracies.

Promoting other paradigms of fighting global jihad or making the world safe for democracy ignores the reality that no military strategy has succeed in that far - away land.

Adam Segal, who researches China's internet policy at the Council of Foreign Relations, compares the conference as an ideological counterpart to ones like the Global Conference on CyberSpace (GCCS), an annual gathering that draws policymakers worldwide to discuss internet governance within the framework of Western - style democracy.

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a universalistic millennial civil religion, the meddlesome vision of democracy, peace, and human rights that we live under today, «the first global civil religion.»

It was historians with a feeble grasp of the fragility of political democracy that most concerned her, not global issues or diplomatic maneuvering.

The Commission on Global Governance (CGG) is a major player, and its cochairman Shridath Ramphal, former Secretary General of the British Commonwealth, puts its goal this way: «When we talk about «governance» and «democracy,» we have to look beyond governance within countries and democracy within states.

Of course great inequities and injustices will persist, but they are a lesser evil than «Global Governance and Democracy within the Global State,» which is a formula for the despotism of a self - appointed elitOf course great inequities and injustices will persist, but they are a lesser evil than «Global Governance and Democracy within the Global State,» which is a formula for the despotism of a self - appointed elitof a self - appointed elite.

The «civil society» as a form of participatory democracy is a framework in which the life, the people and their communities directly participate and multilaterally and multi-dimensionally form solidarity linkages to make creative interventions in the global market process.

One of the most important tasks is to achieve true participatory democracy in order to force nation - states to accept more accountability vis - à - vis global forces for the interests of their people.

Global governance then took a Copernican turn, away from the paradigms of western modernity (such as national sovereignty and interest, the primacy of reason, growth, progress, representative democracy, the authority of government, western universal values, hierarchies), towards a new postmodern ethic.

More generally, the goals are: to reconquer space lost by democracy to the sphere of finance, to oppose any new abandonment of national sovereignty on the pretext of the «rights» of investors and merchants, to create a democratic space at the global level.

Huntington, Samuel P., «Democracy's Third Wave», in Diamond, Larry, Platner, Marc F., eds., The Global Resurgence of Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993) at 3.

We work and look for a global society with life quality, with informed happy citizens exercising their rights and duties, based on the principles of sustainable development and democracy; integrated; upholding values of solidarity, equity and justice; open to changes; respectful regarding traditional knowledge and cultural diversity; committed with the production and consumption of organic and biodiverse products.

Going by what is happening at the global stage, there is again, a telling proof that «for democracy to succeed, a relative level of literacy, a growing middle class, and political institutions that support free speech and human rights is desirable.

As with the last great crisis of social democracy in the 1970s, today's stark choices are being posed as the result of a major economic shift within capitalism: the deep disruption of capital accumulation as a consequence of the crisis in global financial markets unleashed in 2008.

He has argued that in view of the global race for development, a Ghanaian president needs time to implement his programmes and also plan the economy At International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS) conference on the theme «Democracy Justice and Development in Africa: 50 Years after Independence», former president Kufuor criticized the framers of the Constitution for failing to undertake adequate research before deciding on the duration for Presidency.

These questions are addressed in the recent report «Deepening Democracy: a Strategy for Improving the Integrity of Elections Worldwide», published by the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security, chaired by Kofi Annan.

Abdelwahab El - Affendi is Reader in Politics, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, and ESRC / AHRC Fellow in RCUK's Global Uncertainties Programme.

SDN is a global network of researchers, journalists, activists, policy makers and citizens concerned with the future of democracy.

What we should surely be aware of is that these issues connect directly with the much broader and ongoing global debate about the future of government and the challenge that the rise of non-democratic countries, like China, pose to the universal aspirations of liberal democracy.

This post is part of our Deepening Democracy series, responding to a September 2012 report by the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security, on improving the integrity of elections.

(The latter can be regarded as an ideal system of global governance, as well as a dystopia for national democracies).

A report on deepening democracy released by the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security recognised that the enfranchisement of displaced populations, including refugees, «is critical for ensuring the integrity of elections and the establishment of democracdemocracy released by the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security recognised that the enfranchisement of displaced populations, including refugees, «is critical for ensuring the integrity of elections and the establishment of democracDemocracy and Security recognised that the enfranchisement of displaced populations, including refugees, «is critical for ensuring the integrity of elections and the establishment of democracydemocracy».

As a US citizen, I feel incredibly lucky to live in a society whose history is rooted in democratic ideals — a society that continues to benefit from the types of «elections with integrity» that the 2012 Report of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy, and Security promotes.

The report is also published during a time of growing threats to liberal democracy, as a global «strong - man» culture sees individuals like Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Rodrigo Duterte, Narendra Modi, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Tomorrow, Mr Blair will deliver a major speech on foreign policy on how «global values» such as democracy and the rule of law are applied, looking at everything from interventions in Kosovo to a broader policy towards Africa and climate change.

His unrefined critique of existing representative democracy echoes a global phenomenon that goes from the Spanish Indignados to the Occupy Movement.

The Deepening Democracy report, published by the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy & Security, highlights that «The rise of uncontrolled political finance threatens to hollow out democracy everywhere in the world, and rob democracy of its unique strengths — political equality, the empowerment of the disenfranchised, and the ability to manage societal conflicts peacefullDemocracy report, published by the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy & Security, highlights that «The rise of uncontrolled political finance threatens to hollow out democracy everywhere in the world, and rob democracy of its unique strengths — political equality, the empowerment of the disenfranchised, and the ability to manage societal conflicts peacefullDemocracy & Security, highlights that «The rise of uncontrolled political finance threatens to hollow out democracy everywhere in the world, and rob democracy of its unique strengths — political equality, the empowerment of the disenfranchised, and the ability to manage societal conflicts peacefulldemocracy everywhere in the world, and rob democracy of its unique strengths — political equality, the empowerment of the disenfranchised, and the ability to manage societal conflicts peacefulldemocracy of its unique strengths — political equality, the empowerment of the disenfranchised, and the ability to manage societal conflicts peacefully.»

The Deepening Democracy report by the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Securitydiscusses the importance of improving the integrity of elections.

As the Report of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy, and Security highlights, the integrity of elections depends at least in part on the regulation of «undisclosed and opaque political finance.»

So far, no one has shown that they understood the causes of Labour's defeat in 2015 and the problems social democracies have had all over the world following the global financial crisis.

In February 2011, Foreign Secretary William Hague confirmed that the EU had decided to continue the «Zimbabwe Restrictive and Appropriate Measures» in light of the fact that essential reforms to promote the rule of law, human rights and democracy, as agreed under the Global Political Agreement, had not yet been implemented.

Whereas the role of the individual qua world citizen has hitherto been a weak and intermittent strand in Western cosmopolitan political thought, recent concentrated interest in both the theory of democracy and citizenship in the context of the state is starting to spill over to the global plane.

The film also shows the extraordinary way in which Egyptian anti-war activists were heartened and inspired by the global demonstrations against the war, and went on to mount a protest on the outbreak of war that would prove to be a turning point in the Egyptian democracy movement in the long march towards their revolution in 2011.

In a statement, jointly signed by Mr. Francis Asong, the Executive Director of Voice Ghana and Nana Kugbeadzor - Bakateyi II, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Action for Women Empowerment (GLOWA), the group stated that the United Nations» International Day of Democracy is annually held on September 15, to raise public awareness about democracy Democracy is annually held on September 15, to raise public awareness about democracy democracy globally.

Dr Michael Collins is a Lecturer in British History in the Department of History, and Director for Institutional Change and Democracy at the Global Governance Institute (GGI) University College London (UCL).

Today, as in Newton's time, «it is the free flow of information that makes such a vantage point possible,» said Patricia Davis, director of the Office of Global Programs at the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.

Communication is not enough to create a new form of democracy (or global consciousness) unless you have something new to communicate.

There is certainly a lot of agreement these days that Western systems ideology is based on the dangerous idea that the limitless «noisy» anomalies of the global act should be cleaned up, corrected or demolished completely in the face of what is assumed to be the absolutely unquestionable superiority of scientific social democracy.

Hans Klein, who researches online democracy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, notes that the online election model works in the high - profile global selection of board members for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization that controls web domain names.

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A former prime minister and president of Portugal who helped steer his country toward democracy after a 1974 military coup and grew into a global... that...

Showing few visible signs of the massive rewrites, reshoots and other post-production patchwork that delayed its release from December 2012, this sleekly crafted, often nail - biting tale of global zombiepocalypse clicks on both visceral and emotional levels, resulting in an unusually serious - minded summer entertainment whose ideal audience might be described as comicbook fanboys who also listen to «Democracy Now.»