Sentences with phrase «practice of democracy in»

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has said the dispositions of the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration in the practice of democracy in Nigeria is capable of setting the country on the part of anarchy.

Her current work is on migration and identity formation of Bengal «kayasthas», the practice of democracy in India, and the roots of long - term armed conflict in the frontier areas of India and Pakistan.

In the summer of 2009, we conducted a nationally representative survey of 1,500 Russian citizens, and found that respondents who were directly affected by the financial crisis were more likely to respond negatively to questions concerning popular support for the political leadership of the country, the efficacy of the political authorities, and the actual practice of democracy in Russia (Chaisty and Whitefield, 2012).

Not exact matches

This attempt fits in the perspective of creating in the south of Europe a model analogous to that put in practice in the post-war period by the social - democracy in Northern Europe.

It is the duty of the Caliph or Imam, the leader in Islam, to consolidate public opinion, execute judgments, administer state machinery, encourage the faithful in the practice of their faith, such as prayers and the religious tax, and look after affairs of public interest with the guidance of a parliamentary democracy, the basis of government in Islam.

So the Supreme Court, when it practices judicial activism, undercuts democratic participation not only by substituting its own assertoric judgment for democratic deliberation, or by ignoring the plain letter of the constitution in favor of its own political inclinations, but also by understanding itself as a council of philosopher kings (versus really good lawyers) prudentially adjusting the fundamental nature of American democracy to fit the ever changing historical horizon that provides the context for its expression.

If democracy is to have any relevance and influence in such a time, the people of the United States and other democratic nations must demonstrate their understanding and practice of democratic ideals in the field of race relations.

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

Orwin says what ends up happening for traditional religious believers in a liberal democracy is they have to settle for a watered down version of their practice e.g. Catholic Lite, Jewish Lite etc..

Although Marxist theory teaches the establishment of a classless society through the expropriation of the bourgeoisie and the dictatorship of the proletariat, in actual practice the self - styled «Peoples» Democracies» contain well - defined new classes.

Special care should be taken to discourage young people, who in their search for personal identity tend to be conformists, from interpreting and practicing democracy as majority rule, in disregard of individual and minority rights and careless of the proper subordination of the will of the group to the principles of justice.

In short, effective teaching of democratic values requires the practice of democracy by those who teach and a democratic structure in the institutions of educatioIn short, effective teaching of democratic values requires the practice of democracy by those who teach and a democratic structure in the institutions of educatioin the institutions of education.

Orwin goes on to say that Liberal Democracy doesn't work like that in practice because it actually assumes a particular conception of the good: «For so long as you observe prevailing liberal democratic norms on all fundamental social questions, you're free in merely secondary matters to continue in the ways of your ancestors.»

The report of the NCC mission reliably parroted the position of Israel's neighboring enemies while omitting any mention of, inter alia, the anti-Semitic hatred daily spewed by the Arab media, official Arab support for Palestinian suicide bombers, Muslim prohibition of Christian (and, needless to say, Jewish) religious practice, and the conspicuous absence of democracy or freedom of expression in all the countries of the region except Israel.

Democracy, to be practiced and implemented with integrity, demands a free flow of information to citizens; it definitely can not be overly censored, curbed, or edited to suit the agenda of the political party in power.

He is currently at work on another introductory volume on Paul, a study of the importance of both the internal and external aspects (that is, both the beliefs and practices) of Judaism and Christianity, and, in a new direction, a consideration of democracy, Christianity and fundamentalism.

The democracy of public school and soccer practice and work blends us all in together, and here, you're as likely to see a Nishan Sahib decal as a Christian fish, on the back of the minivans at the mall.

It is clear that the Indian situation calls for deeper mutual understanding among religions and for the development of a consensus about parameters of religious practices in a democracy, where there is co-existence of non-missionary and missionary types of religions.

I don't think that «strictly biblical» belongs anywhere but in what one can practice within the laws of our socialist democracy.

Yet there is little doubt that race equality is practiced further under Communism than is general in the democracies of the West, and it is certain that our racial inequalities, though exaggerated, are a chief weapon in the psychological war against us.

These four — divine dependence, mutual obligation stemming from love, sound judgment of human nature, and the practice of brotherhood in daily experience — are the basis of any true democracy.

«33 Bushman also pointed out that Samuel Johnson, the great Episcopalian leader in Connecticut, lumped together Revivalism and democracy in their disrespect for proper authority: «The prevalency of rigid enthusiastical conceited notions and practices in religion and republican mobbish principles and practices and policy, being most on a level and each thinking himself an able divine and statesman: hence perpetual feuds and factions in both.34

There is abundant evidence that Catholics in this country do sincerely believe in democracy and practice this belief, but I do not see how they themselves can deny that their polity poses a problem for democracy that is not posed by churches which make their decisions in regard to public policy by processes of open discussion in which both clergy and laymen share.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

I encouraged separation of powers among the three arms of government because that is the standard practice in any true democracy.

These four countries shared a classical inheritance and understandings of «democracy» derived from that, but in responding to local experiences and conflicts, they developed sometimes strikingly different understandings and practices, and they differed too in what they arrayed under the banner of democracy as that came to be unfurled.

But in practice, both of these proposals fail to live up to the high - minded rhetoric of democracy in which they are couched.

I often share digital best practices at national and regional conferences such as AAPC, Art of Political Campaigning, CampaignTech, Campaigns & Marketing Summit, NTC, Netroots Nation, Organizing 2.0, the Reed Awards, and RootsCamp, webinars for Progressive Majority, Salsa Labs and others, and trainings in - person for small groups around the country including for Wellstone's Advanced Campaign Management School, Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, Center for Progressive Leadership, Clean Air Task Force, Democracy for America, HRC, New Leaders Council and New Organizing Institute.

But for the multi-party democracy we practice, which necessitates that we go for polls every four years, all the contestants vying for the office of President with John Mahama should just have come together and unanimously asked him to continue in office to complete his extraordinary works.

In a release made available to Nigeria politics online and signed by Mr. Habib Haruna Governor Ambode, who spoke in Lagos at an event organised by the State's Office of Civic Engagement to mark the 23rd Anniversary of June 12, said Nigeria owe the late Abiola a duty to entrench democracy in the system and practice it the right waIn a release made available to Nigeria politics online and signed by Mr. Habib Haruna Governor Ambode, who spoke in Lagos at an event organised by the State's Office of Civic Engagement to mark the 23rd Anniversary of June 12, said Nigeria owe the late Abiola a duty to entrench democracy in the system and practice it the right wain Lagos at an event organised by the State's Office of Civic Engagement to mark the 23rd Anniversary of June 12, said Nigeria owe the late Abiola a duty to entrench democracy in the system and practice it the right wain the system and practice it the right way.

A particular area of interest has been left wing parties with a formal commitment to intra-party democracy and how this has worked out in practice.

I do not believe that there are any countries that actually practice this form of voting - it would be in conflict with the principles of democracy - universal suffrage, one man one vote, etc -, and undemocratic countries generally do not require a voting system in the first place.

The Deputy Minister of Gender and Social Protection, Mr. Joseph Alexander Ackon has condemned the low representation of women in politics globally, saying their under representation is in violation of the democracy practiced by in various states.

Kofi Annan, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, would also highlight some of the challenges to democratic practice and suggest how they could be addressed to ensure Africa's and Ghana's democracies continue to thrive in the 2Ist century.

He is convinced that there exists an obvious instrument for putting social democracy into practice - the central national state, whose strength has been underestimated, he argues, in a rush of market fundamentalism on both left and right.

Back in the olden days of Greece, direct democracy was practiced.

On Sunday, Greeks voted in a referendum which has been as much a corruption of democracy as their practice of voting two - and - a-half millennia ago was a noble innovation.

Protect local democracy and democratic rights by commissioning a thorough review of federal preemption law and its impact on the practice of local democracy in the United States.

Ivan Lewis, shadow Culture secretary, said: «Newspapers have a right to cover whatever they want in a democracy within the constraints of the law and their code of practice.»

This double meaning of Democracy — a popular - type government in general, as well as a specific form of popular government — needs to be made clear in any discussion regarding this subject, for the sake of sound understanding of the form of government practiced in the United States.

Our penchant for undermining well known democratic practices, lack of internal democracy, the crave for personal interests as against the general good of the party and the determined posturing of self before others, are to mention a few, the root causes of our political dilemma in the state.

It's voting at the local level, determined by state and local level election laws and practices, that make the difference in our perennial exercise of democracy.

It's voting at the local level, determined by state and local level election laws and practices, that make the difference in our perennial exercise of democracy.

And one wonders why not, in view of the serious efforts in England and Australia, also English - speaking democracies, to draw attention to the plight of boys in schooling and to adapt educational practice to their distinctive needs.

Embracing these reflective habits of mind will allow me to look at the complex challenges associated with my practice and drive me to continually formulate and reformulate strategies to better teach all students, lead for short - term and long - term change, and more effectively promote democracy and equity in education.

Here, John Dewey, no fan of the Catholics or their schools, which he pronounced «inimical to democracy,» may have had the last laugh: Once known for their rigorous academic and organizational structure, Catholic schools now implement many of the instructional theories and practices that predominate in Dewey - inspired progressive - education schools (the dominant principle of our public schools for most of the last fifty years).

By making many of our Core Knowledge curriculum materials freely available, we work to put into practice the principle that every child in a democracy should have access to shared, enabling knowledge.

In effect, the NDSG has been a kind of informed democratic conscience of U.S. education, constantly reminding the mainstream of alternatives and possibilities, and offering a criticism of educational reform and practice in the light of its enduring concerns with democracy and the estate of childhooIn effect, the NDSG has been a kind of informed democratic conscience of U.S. education, constantly reminding the mainstream of alternatives and possibilities, and offering a criticism of educational reform and practice in the light of its enduring concerns with democracy and the estate of childhooin the light of its enduring concerns with democracy and the estate of childhood.

In short, CECH attempts to teach citizenship by encouraging participatory projects that engage students in the debate of real issues and the actual practice of democracIn short, CECH attempts to teach citizenship by encouraging participatory projects that engage students in the debate of real issues and the actual practice of democracin the debate of real issues and the actual practice of democracy.

In his books School and Society and Democracy and Education, Dewey wrote about habits of democratic practice, beyond governance, that contribute to one's ability to participate responsibly in societIn his books School and Society and Democracy and Education, Dewey wrote about habits of democratic practice, beyond governance, that contribute to one's ability to participate responsibly in societin society.