Sentences with phrase «on economic democracy»

They would build an ecological socialism based on economic democracy — cooperatives, public enterprises, public planning, and markets free of monopoly profiteering and predatory finance — in order to provide a decent standard of living for all on an ecologically sustainable basis.

Hers is a «better late than never» proposal: economic strength in Britain built on economic democracy.

Not exact matches

Capitalism, in turn, creates the economic base on which may be built, with guidance from religion and democracy, a more humane society of the kind called for by both Christian and Jewish traditions.

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

Politicians know this, and behind their «ritualistic allusions» to liberty, peace, and democracy they operate on the assumption that voters demand of them no more than an ever expanding economic abundance to satisfy their narrow and self «absorbed pursuit of personal freedom.

Political democracy can be manipulated in the unipolar world to make whatever party that comes to power dependent on the global economic powers.

Mr. Atwood lists the four basic areas on which AID will concentrate: population and health, economic growth, environment, and democracy.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

In his chapter on democracy, Sen argues that a democratic polity is important first because freedom is an inherent good, second because it contributes to economic well «being, and third because societies need free political debate to choose what economic «needs» to value.

On an economic level, the various formulae for self - managing democracy are all valuable, particularly on the level of local initiatives or small and medium businesseOn an economic level, the various formulae for self - managing democracy are all valuable, particularly on the level of local initiatives or small and medium businesseon the level of local initiatives or small and medium businesses.

But, he outlined three threats to American democracy — economic inequality, racial divisions and the retreat of different segments of society into «bubbles», where opinions are not based on «some common baseline of facts».

The Democracy Collaborative has been gathering information on the steadily building array of alternative economic institutions in communities across America.

Yet Africans are again discussing the role of the state in economic change, and there is a new, and welcome, emphasis on the tangibles of development (production, infrastructure and employment) in addition to intangibles (democracy and governance championed by the Washington Consensus).

Furthermore, rather than a simple return to the corporatist model of 1970s social democracy, John McDonnell has been impressively leading the way in innovative economic thinking, including on regional development banks, popularly controlled monetary policy, and most intriguingly his consideration of a universal basic income.

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.

However, Ghanaian prosperity hinges on maintaining a successful democracy, and in the coming year Ghana will face a difficult series of political and economic challenges.

Before the meeting I sent Miliband a document I entitled «Two Lanes on the Third Way» pdf (95.5 kB), in which I argued that since «when we increase the capacity of others to help themselves, we also increase their capacity to help us» the Labour government should embrace proportional representation and economic democracy.

For New Labour, election strategy was based on the insights set out by economist Anthony Downs in his 1957 book An Economic Theory of Democracy.

It is a barren, destitute country that, compared to the South on the same peninsula, which is a democracy [and has] economic prosperity, the North is barren and desolate with a very strong, fearsome military and reckless nuclear program.»

Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence, University of Lagos, Akin Oyebode is set to deliver a paper on the Strategic Dialogue on Mobilizing the Citizens to Demand Anti-Corruption Reforms and an End to Impunity for Grand Corruption in Nigeria being organized by Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in collaboration with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

The Ambassador said Ghana had become one of US's most important partners on the African continent and added «We work together on a wide range of issues we both care about — economic growth and development, democracy and good governance and peace and security.»

Here we stand today, recognized as the beacon of democracy and socio - economic progress on the African continent.

The Foundation also focuses on developing leaders and citizens with a sound understanding and a deep commitment to quality education, democracy, economic development and human rights as underlying values for building a peaceful, prosperous and ambitious country.

- Part of US economic aid is spent on democracy promotion programs in Egypt, a policy that has generated controversy in recent years.

Astoria's Greek - American elected officials said their constituents remain concerned but hopeful about Greece's economic future after the nation's New Democracy Party was elected by a narrow margin on a platform of remaining within the European Union.

These included: the need to examine the best ways to tackle anti-social behaviour; putting industrial democracy back at the forefront of our economic policies; giving a higher profile to fuel poverty; the need to spend more on social housing; and a desire to talk about policy to those with similar perspectives from outside the Liberal Democrats.

We will host a discussion around economic policy over on our new blog dedicated to social liberal economics, PlanC.socialliberal.net, and there will of course be a full an open debate on ownership, democracy and power, at the SLF Conference in Manchester on July 13th — here, we will focus on the wider politics of social liberalism.

The General Secretary of the ruling National Democracy Congress (NDC) recently came under strong criticisms for suggesting that government should fall on the country's Heritage Fund to help in reducing the current economic crisis.

Social democracy, by contrast, was democratic western Europe's postwar response to communism, with public ownership of the utilities and sectors of manufacturing, the establishment of welfare states, the sustaining of full employment by state economic management and redistributive taxation on an unprecedented scale.

We have seen opposition in the UK parliament from economic libertarians like Peter Lilley, who worry about TTIP's effect on sovereignty and democracy.

The Green Party of New York State is founded on the Four Pillars of Green Politics: Ecology, Social and Economic Justice, Nonviolence, Grassroots Democracy.

The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (or LGBCE) was established by the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 on 1 April 2010 as the successor to the BCfE.

The Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009, which received Royal Assent on 12 November 2009, provided for the establishment of the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE), and for the transfer to it of all the boundary - related functions of the Boundary Committee for England of the Electoral Commission.

An unusual proposal last March from Luo Fuhe, vice chairman of the China Association for Promoting Democracy, a minor political party, declared that slow internet speeds and restrictions on nonpolitical sites were having «an enormous impact on China's social and economic development, and on scientific research,» according to China Digital Times, a California - based website that features uncensored news from China.

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical black comedy crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Terence Winter, based on the The Occupy movement is an international socio - political movement against social and economic inequality and the lack of real democracy around the world.

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

Activities conducted under this program include: Development Discourse Pluralism and Peace Building (Formation of ulti - ethnic self - help groups, Pancasila Forum, Cultural Dialogue and Intercultural Dialogue, Development of sermon of various religion with Peace issues, Interactive Dialogue on the Radio, Campaign for Peace and Democracy Development Through Various Media); Cultural revitalization («Mosehe» Culture of Tolaki Ethnic Group, Inter-religion dialogue); Other activities (Working jointly to build a places of worship, building Peace Monument, Performing Arts and Sports, economic activities)

To sum up, teachers need to support sustainable alternatives to neoliberal capitalism with its emphasis on economic growth; protect nature's resources for future generations; protect ecosystems and help support biodiversity; support a community based economics, and a grassroots democracy that includes participatory and direct forms, embody anti-racist, anti-ableist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic pedagogies that respect diversity and work from a post-patriarchal perspective.

Although the U.S. is fourth among the 30 industrialized democracies that comprise the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) in per - pupil spending on K — 12, it is in the middle of the pack (13) in education spending as a percentage of GDP.

In this movement, some researchers saw democracy in action as power devolved from the state to local schools, sometimes culminating in outside stakeholder involvement.147 Many contentions about site - based management, community control of schools, community schools, and school choice were based on democratic and communitarian theory.148 Some researchers and policy makers influenced by economic theory have begun to view the relationship between schools and communities differently.

While acknowledging that the promise of America has been more an aspiration than a realization for many Americans throughout our history, Weingarten said that «what's been enduring and unifying is a vision of America based on a foundation of democracy and economic opportunity.

In the President's Executive Order on making open and machine - readable the «new default» for government data, he noted that «[o] penness in government strengthens our democracy, promotes the delivery of efficient and effective services to the public, and contributes to economic growth.»

Babak Radboy's «Circle Time,» a faux kids» show that engages toddlers in a dialogue about the ills of capitalism, left a bad taste in my mouth, as did Chantal Mouffe's «General Intellects with McKenzie Wark,» in which an economic theorist, beheaded via special - effects technology, lectures on liberalism and democracy in an empty meeting room.

Having set out on her career in the late 1980s, Lee's maturation as an artist coincided with South Korea's development in terms of democracy, modernization and economic strength.

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.

Pissant progressives pontificating on economic degrowth, new economic systems eschewing economic growth, global government, using disasters to engineer transformative moments for social revolution, suspension of democracy and the rule of law to deal with the catastrophic risk of climate change or whatever the whine de jour is.

new: scientific consensus on climate issues does not exist - Novaya Gazeta, December 16, 2009 - Instead of articulating and prosecution of false targets political leaders gathered in Copenhagen should concentrate on the other - to develop policies that promote more effective human adaptation to climate change, economic growth, the development of free trade, protection of property rights, strengthen democracy.

Based on data from the European Social Survey for Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and Switzerland, three different sets of explanations are tested: (1) hypotheses stressing economic determinants, that is, the fear of wage pressure and competition over welfare benefits; (2) hypotheses emphasizing cultural determinants, that is, the perception of immigration as a threat to national identity; and (3) hypotheses focusing on social alienation, that is, dissatisfaction with the way the country's democracy works and the nonintegration into intermediary networks (trade unions).

Dr. Beisner is an adjunct fellow of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty; an adjunct scholar of the Committee For a Constructive Tomorrow; a fellow of the Institute on Religion and Democracy; and a member of the advisory board of the Templeton Freedom Awards program of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.

Sensible global policy that relies on democracy, the rule of law and economic development.