Sentences with phrase «of national democracy»

The cross-party consensus on climate has allowed its parties to establish political power and technocracies above the institutions of national democracy, and excused themselves from having to debate it.

That is why environmental ideology is reproduced, not as much at the level of national democracy — which, remember, «stands at the national border, suitcase in hand, without a passport» — as it is in the supranational political institution: the UN, for instance.

Policy: The theft of national democracy by the EU under the Lisbon treaty will be put to a referendum as soon as possible.

«The most important principle of the Bloomberg speech is where he [Cameron] says... the root of our national democracy is our national parliament, but it is the essence of that democracy, which is when it is decided by parliament we shall give people the right to make the decision, which is the ultimate test of the trust in the electorate.»

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Among the language in the promotion was a line reading: «Unfortunately, some members of the national media are using their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control «exactly what people think»... This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.»

The panel features former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and former National Security Agency Director Michael McConnell to debate with Nuala O'Conner, CEO for the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Trevor Hughes, president and CEO of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

The indictment of 13 Russian nationals for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has reignited the debate on whether Facebook and other social - media giants are a threat to democracy.

Last month a report by the US Senate — entitled Putin's Asymmetric Assault on Democracy in Russia and Europe: Implications for US National Security — also criticized the adequacy of the investigations conducted thus far by Facebook and Twitter into allegations of Russian social media interference vis - a-vis Brexit.

He is co-chair of the campaign on Corporate Globalization and Positive Alternatives for the Alliance for Democracy, a national non-partisan group working to end corporate domination over government and policy.

They thus are more in the character of medieval debts to Europe's kings and princes than national debts to which the people are committed to repay under the rules of parliamentary democracy.

Reciting the imperfections of democracy does not lead ineluctably to the conclusion that the least accountable branch of the federal government is the better forum for our national debate about public values.

Opponents of CETA fear that those special rights undermine democracy because they weaken the power of local and national governments.

Then there is the way in which Americans determine their own national interest» from manifest destiny, to Woodrow Wilson's crusade for democracy, to the delegitimation of America's war in Vietnam, to the debate over just war and the Gulf War.

They represented on a national scale the concept of a town - meeting democracy.

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.»

Because we are a democracy, we will tolerate a large measure of dissent from our national purpose in this war» some of it honorable, much of it contemptible.

In Costa Rica, long a beacon of democracy in Latin America, there is now a remilitarizing of society generally, symbolized by the U.S. military exercises taking place in Costa Rica's national parks, in spite of objections by the Costa Rican government.

Jesus would do the following (in the U.S.A.): medicare for all, legalize all drugs, legalize gay marriage, destroy the wall between the U.S.A. and Mexico and consequently give the U.S. border patrol agents something useful and productive to do, end U.S. military aggression around the world, direct election of U.S. presidents, the national initiative for democracy, urge Christians to be more productive on Sundays instead of seeing who can wear the nicest clothes to church.

The journal is a quarterly published by the National Endowment for Democracy (1101 15th St NW, Suite 200, Washington, D.C 20005) and should be of great interest to people trying to understand political and cultural changes in today's world.

But even so, PAN («National Action Party») gets at most 14 percent of regional votes, and its token seats in the legislature serve more to prove the ruling party operates a democracy.

Vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Marc F. Plattner represents an organization whose definition of democracy is much more stringent in its demands with criteria of democratic inclusivity (as shown in a short essay by its funding officer, Louisa Greve, citeDemocracy (NED) Marc F. Plattner represents an organization whose definition of democracy is much more stringent in its demands with criteria of democratic inclusivity (as shown in a short essay by its funding officer, Louisa Greve, citedemocracy is much more stringent in its demands with criteria of democratic inclusivity (as shown in a short essay by its funding officer, Louisa Greve, cited below).

Pertinent to this discussion is a recent publication of Democracy As Culture: Deweyan Pragmaticism in a Globalized World, edited by Sor - Hoon Tan and John Whalen - Bridge, both on the faculty of the National University of Singapore with a dozen articles by different authors on Dewey and Confucianism.

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.

If we do not limit democracy to only the official election of leaders on the national level and as the main criterion, then we can accept the fact that democracy can have many different forms.

His yardstick for measuring democracy, however, is primarily one of national election, Western - style, while China «remains one of the very few countries in the world today that does not even pretend to choose its leaders by popular election» (p. xi).

• «The National Council of Churches» (NCC) devotion to its decades - long tradition of pandering to dictators while condemning democracies has been faithful and predictable.

But the traditionalist view again lost the day, with the result that the new religious orientation included the separation of church and state (Jefferson and Madison), a democratic faith in the common person (Jacksonian democracy), and acceptance of a new romanticism which brought about a flourishing of the first truly national literature, art, and architecture.

They have pointed to the role of Protestantism, Pietism, and even of Catholicism in fostering the sense of national destiny, in giving religious sanction to the imperialist programs of kings and democracies, in justifying nationalist wars and in blessing armies bound on conquest.

The instrumentalism in matters of religion which characterizes communism and national socialism differs from the instrumentalism of the resistance movements and democracy; but in both instances we are dealing with a utilitarian use of religion in the service of non-religious ends.

Thus both democracy and Marxism have incorporated elements of national tradition, and both have tried to appreciate and encourage the nationalistic loyalties of the peoples they have been trying to win.

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.

According to Samuel Huntington of Harvard University (writing in The National Interest), there have been three discernible «waves» of democracy in world history.

Wilsonian morality which equated peace and a good international society with democracy and national self - determination was rather too simple to meet the harsh necessities, for example, of a viable economy in Central Europe.

Why do not the Institute on Religion and Democracy and the National Association of Evangelicals condemn human - rights violations in El Salvador, Guatemala and Chile as vigorously and frequently as they do human - rights violations in Nicaragua?

• Third, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) plays an increasingly important role within U.S. LIC strategy.8 The NED was formed at the behest of President Reagan in 1983 in order to help develop the «infrastructure of democracDemocracy (NED) plays an increasingly important role within U.S. LIC strategy.8 The NED was formed at the behest of President Reagan in 1983 in order to help develop the «infrastructure of democracydemocracy.»

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Do ANY of the best of the Western Democracies in Northern Europe EVER talk about ANY of this nonsense in their national debates?

Last April, Nepal faced a national crisis with growing protests for restoration of democracy.

I try to unravel some of the cultural aspects of the problem» the attempt to erect an empty «shrine» at the heart of western democracy» in the Spring 2012 issue of National Affairs, in an article whose title is taken from the Book of Daniel: «The Handwriting on the Wall.»

She has served on the Board of the National Humanities Center and currently she is a member of the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Scholars Council of the Library of Congress, and the Board of the National Endowment for Democracy.

Reading the diaries of Dietrich von Hildebrand from the late 1920s and early 1930s, I was powerfully struck by how the disdain of continental European Christian intellectuals for the messy pluralism of liberal democracy made too many of those thinkers vulnerable to the siren songs of the monism proposed by German National Socialism and Italian fascism.

His proposal is for a corporatist democracy «built from the bottom up» through a system of tiers that begins locally in Russian villages and culminates in the selection of a powerful president at the national level.

Then, Dolan argues, Carroll understood the importance of creating a «republican» form of Catholicism in which the Church would absorb the new national experiment in democracy into its own internal life.

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The National League for Democracy (NLD) has recently won 43 of 45 seats contested in a recent by - election and their leader and pro-democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, beat her rival, former military doctor U Soe Min of the Junta - backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), in Kawhmu township just outside Yangon.

If the democratic dispensation in Ghana were like those of more mature democracies, there would be a mechanism in place for consensual discussions of issues of national interest.

Their activities were transnational and unbounded by national frameworks, which is how most studies on the creation of modern democracies have been, and continue to be written.

Rhodes sought to channel the enthusiasm of Britain's nascent democracy towards a powerful assertion of national superiority, in order to distract the masses from their own exploitation, derail plans to redress economic inequality through social welfare reform, and legitimise an economic agenda pursuing the interests of a small financial elite.

Social democracy wins where it projects an uplifting, optimistic vision of Britain's future, a conception of national modernisation allied to a vision of social fairness.

But they do not seem to have considered the question of what will happen the day when the fragile national democracy of Moldova will be re-married with the well - structured and mobilized semi-authoritarian philo - Russian political culture of Transnistria.