These trends have resulted in serious questions being asked about the
impact on democracy at the local level.
Overall, only 33 percent found social media had a positive
effect on democracy, against 60 percent who believed the opposite.
While this represents a positive out - turn of a regional determination to uphold our
charter on democracy and good governance, such intervention may not represent a blue print applicable in all circumstances.
Until recently the rationale of the integration process has relied on efficiency,
not on democracy.
- Just announced committee of academics to commission independent research on social
media on democracy.
For example,
on the democracy side, I'm not aware of any country that gives children the vote but prisoners voting is more varied.
It is on such assumptions that he
wars on democracy and promises what he asserts is a better way of life.
In this
attack on democracy, governance by locally elected school boards is stripped away altogether.
«This is the largest
assault on democracy and freedom in this country that I've every experienced,» he said during the day's first panel.
It addresses at the same time the need to stimulate the civic engagement and constructive attitudes
based on democracy and human rights.
CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot appeared
on Democracy Now to discuss what many are calling a continuation of Brazil's coup: the conviction and pending imprisonment of former president Lula da Silva, despite a lack of evidence.
His interest in establishing further promoting his views
on democracy in Ghana saw him establish and fund The Statesman newspaper.
Post uses the device of comparing Thomas Jefferson's
views on democracy with the ideal of a democratic cyberspace.
Schnelli summed up his
thoughts on democracy for Bitcoin governance during his final comments in regard to the audience member's question.
It grieves my heart to wake up to another dark day of rape
on democracy as been continually witnessed under the administration of Governor Yahaya Bello.
Miner also told the committee the state's decisions directly impact the city of Syracuse and corruption has a «corrosive
influence on our democracy.»
As outgoing president, Obasanjo declared Yar» Adua's election a «do - or - die» affair; and inflicted such on the polity, producing the most brazen
rape on democracy Nigeria ever saw, making even Yar» Adua so ashamed of his own «election».
Titled «the political economy of democracy promotion», this collaboration brings together academics, policy makers, and practitioners working
on democracy promotion in a way that previous projects have not.
@agc - I wouldn't say this answer
focuses on democracies at all, but since «populism» is a modern term there is some difficulty in associating it with writings from the past.
«Now is a time of reckoning for all tech and internet companies to truly consider their impact
on democracies worldwide,» said Nuala O'Connor, President of the Center for Democracy & Technology.
All too often,
research on democracy in Africa ignores the fact that many states have been holding elections and running legislatures since independence.
He said a
lecture on democracy and the rule of law «coming from a party with a tradition of undemocratic rule is a desperate attempt to pervert history and the course of justice.
H: And what Prof. Stiglitz
said on Democracy Now is even sharper [1]: «[Fed] lending is actually below what it was in 2007.
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.
A spokeswoman for Stringer countered that Spitzer's the one who's
trampling on democracy by trying to «use his personal fortune to try and buy this election wholesale.»
Andrea Teti critiqued European
discourses on democracy promotion in Egypt and their alienation of Egyptian pro-democracy opposition groups.
«Public schools provide opportunities for all students and exist to support democracy, so politicians shouldn't turn their
backs on democracy when it comes to the top education post,» she said.
This programme was part of an evolving research agenda between partner institutions of JGU and is expected to be a melting pot of
ideas on democracy and its institutions and likely to determine the course of future discussions and debate on the subject.
In a statement signed by the National Leader of the foremost Igala group, Major General Patrick Akpa (rtd), the organization described the attack as an «
affront on democracy» and an «intimidation of a constitutional arm of government» in Kogi State.
«However, as a law - abiding party, we hereby urge our members and the people of Kogi state to remain calm and not despair over this
slap on democracy as the courts would soon deliver justice with regard to the authentic governor with the mandate of the majority at the election.»
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.
The party described Idris's action as
offensive on democracy, and also condemned the deliberate insult being heaped on each of our legislators by appointees of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Citizenship is a statutory national curriculum subject at key stages three and four, and includes
lessons on democracy, politics, equalities and anti-extremist education.
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.
But with all its faults, I believe that peer review mostly works and that it is the least worst system yet invented — rather like Churchill's
comments on Democracy.....
I would suggest that the emphasis
on the democracy principle is reminiscent of the Court's emphasis on the principle of the rule of law in the recent case of H v Council, where the Court interpreted the Treaty provisions on the Court's jurisdiction with regard to CFSP - matters through the prism of the principle of the rule of law.
If implemented without a comprehensive, properly resourced, long - term strategy to preserve legislative information, these budget cuts and policy directions will have an irreversible effect
on our democracy for years to come.
Phrases with «on democracy»