Sentences with phrase «questions about democracy»

«There are some legitimate questions about democracy and local community values,» he said.

In the first section three points will be discussed: First, the basic relationship between democracy and the Church, secondly a fundamental difference between applying the concept of democracy to secular society and applying it to the Church, and thirdly that despite this radical differ - ence the question about democracy in the Church may yet be posed.

Not exact matches

Weigel writes: «Avoiding the really hard questions, O'Brien's Massey Lectures are replete with what cigar - makers call «filler»: ill - informed cracks about American presidential politics; typically dismissive liberal cliches about a somnambulant Ronald Reagan; a strange obsession with the Clinton Administration's «Operation Restore Democracy» in Haiti.

After raising in a light way some deep questions about equality, democracy, and free speech, he concludes: «The ultimate failure of the United States will probably not derive from the problems we see or the conflicts we wage.

In a whirlwind tour, the Nobel laureate who is democracy's champion in Poland, received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush, addressed a joint session of Congress, spoke to his fellow trade unionists in the AFL - CIO, went to New York to engage questions about Polish - Jewish relations, and there was complete silence from the paper that claims «to cover the news from the angle where church and world intersect.»

But Stout's careful statement of the possibilities for democracy raises other questions about religious belief.

We debate endlessly about Peace, Democracy, the Rights of Man, the conditions of racial and individual eugenics, the value and morality of scientific research pushed to the uttermost limit, and the true nature of the Kingdom of God; but here again, how can we fail to see that each of these inescapable questions has two aspects, and therefore two answers, according to whether we regard the human species as culminating in the individual or as pursuing a collective course towards higher levels of complexity and consciousness?

He took Jefferson's question about the fate of democracy in urbanized populations and translated it into the language of the country's most avoided neighborhoods and caused it to be writ large in our industrialized cities.

Yes, here is the great question that has gripped me about the Egyptian coup; would there have been democracy tomorrow if not a coup of the democratically elected Islamists yesterday?

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.

LM: It's not really a question of salvaging, since any general political paradigm is valuable insofar as it provides the parameters for thinking about the ends of democracy.

And a united Labour, he adds, is the only way to win power from the Conservatives, because «if we learned lessons in 1981 to 1983, it's if social democracy is in real trouble and you split it still further you merely reinforce the majority of your opponents and that would happen - there is no question about it.»

This raises serious questions for those in the democracy promotion community about why legislatures trained in democracy and human rights issues have failed to act as bulwarks to authoritarian abuse — and what can be done about it.

GetActive has vigorously disputed its low ranking in calls and emails to clients, for instance, and Democracy in Action has raised questions about the study's methodology that are quite persuasive.

There are two different questions that might be asked about contemporary democracy: how did we get here?

We should therefore care less about definitions, and ask the real question: is representative democracy now so overshadowed by capitalism that it is no longer able to make room for the popular sovereignty upon which it was founded?

Whether we like it or not, populists around the world are posing legitimate questions about the state of democracy.

Hopefully that will be balanced by yet another celebration of democracy but there has to be questions about whether all sides can get equally geed up so soon after the last campaign.

Lastly, the episode raises questions about the protection of minority rights against the will of the majority, a tenet of liberal democracy.

Just think about that for a moment — a Tory - led government deciding the legality of its actions can no longer be questioned — and consider the implications for our democracy.

(1) Your question is based on the ridiculous assumption that economy and politics is a zero sum game and that somehow being «for» middle class means you're «against» (or «don't care about») poor; (2) Leaving that aside, championing the case of 75 % of population over 25 % seems like a lot less of a political suicide than championing the case of 25 % over the 75 %, unless I don't quite understand how voting works in a democracy.

The Commons» European scrutiny committee's chair, arch Tory eurosceptic Bill Cash, said: «The prime minister needs to be aware, as he discusses these matters in the European Council, that the debate has moved on from specific concerns about individual issues to fundamental questions which involve our democracy.»

Surely the fact that these files were still active for at least 10 years while we were MPs raises fundamental questions about parliamentary sovereignty and privilege — principles that are vital to our democracy.

These trends have resulted in serious questions being asked about the impact on democracy at the local level.

I am voting to close this question as primarily opinion - based, because to answer the question «is the UK really a democracy» we first would need to define what «a democracy» actually is, and that's a topic we could debate about endlessly.

The Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions raise questions, not only about the tide of democracy surging through the Middle East, but also about evolutionary change and the quality of democracy elsewhere, not least in Britain.

Easier, too, to throw around vague, anti-Semitic tropes about George Soros than to come clean about where the Brexit campaign cash came from, after openDemocracy's reporting triggered questions in parliament about the role of dark money in the EU referendum — and the concerns about foreign and particularly Russian interference in western democracies.

Here they reply to the questions ConservativeHome readers put to them about the role of members in the party conference and policy formation, and party democracy in general.

The celebrity faction in Hollywood, without a clue about the geopolitical questions at stake, rushes around here and there, shoots its mouth off about «democracy» and generally reinforces the arguments advanced by the State Department and CIA for US «aid» and «intervention.»

DK: It was so clarifying to see these questions repeat, to hear Harry Waters [who did the play in San Francisco] worry about how Belize handles «Democracy in America,» and then to hear Nathan Stewart - Jarrett, who's opening it on Broadway, have the exact same problems and issues and to realize these are not problems that the text solves.

Classes lose their cadence, and their rhythm; reflective discussions and debates are jarringly interrupted by school bells that silence a student's closing comment on labor strikes or leave unanswered a question about the differences between representative and direct democracy.

She traces many of the questions and issues of her present research — especially about education and its role in democracy — back to her time as a student at Harvard.

P.S. Chester Finn answers eight questions about school reform — including whether he agrees with Diane Ravitch — over at the Economist's Democracy in America blog.

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Whether like Jennifer Alexander who lobbies for charter schools, you see thousands of Connecticut public school students «trapped in failing schools» or, like me, you see the possibilities for curriculum design and professional development in those schools, what we have before us and before the Connecticut legislators in the future is a key moral question about what is the right thing for citizens in a democracy and their elected representatives to do.

DC for Democracy recently asked a wide range of questions to candidates about their stances on various policies.

Though there is a question here about whether he advocates «informed democracy» as some kind of qualified democracy, rather than the somewhat more mundane, «wouldn't it be very nice if nobody was ignorant».

«We faced tough questions about our role in democracy, our role in discourse, our role in journalism, and our role in well - being... We have our best teams internally partnered with the best experts externally to work through each set of the issues»

But while questions about CA's shadowy work in American democracy are being bottomed out, many still linger about the company's involvement in the UK's historic vote to leave the European Union.

He'll face tough questions about data privacy and Facebook's role in democracy in both sessions.

«That remote storage raises questions about how effectively Apple can enforce its privacy rules, according to privacy groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Democracy and Technology.