Take a look at these two articles
suggested by Democracy in Action's in - house blogger Jason Zanon:
Not exact matches
The release of new opinion polls in Greece
suggests a small lead
by the New
Democracy party, backed
by 25.3 percent of voters, versus the 25 percent who favor Syriza.
However,
by refusing to submit to «the
democracy of the dead,» (Chesterton's words, not Compton's), nineteenth - century Evangelicals did, in ways Compton
suggests but does not fully clarify, take a first crucial step toward the idea of a «living Constitution.»
Evan, While Christians offer state that the US was founded as a Christian nation, you are the first person I have heard
suggest that
democracy was inspired
by Jesus.
That the days were numbered when such elite educational ideals might hope to set the standard is
suggested by the strikingly different tone of the even more influential 1947 report of The President's Commission on Higher Education for
Democracy.
Laziridis says New
Democracy is committed to bringing the deficit down and to «much of the structural change
suggested by the troika» but calls some of the proposals «ill - advised» and warns in colourful language that: «if Greece explodes, it will be 100 % blame on those who do not let a country breathe before they operate.»
My research
suggests that active core members are incentivised
by opportunities (gaining new skills, progressing a political career, or simply taking part) above any consideration of voting rights in internal
democracy.
He
suggests appalling failures
by John Sharkey (now Lord Sharkey, made a Lib Dem peer even while he headed a
democracy campaign for fairer voting).
Since there are, however, some democratic (or meritocratic, as
suggested by @gerrit) elements to the governance of this mortal realm - election of moderators, and so on - one model to which SE could be said to bear a slight resemblance is the
Democracy / Theocracy amalgam of Iran (with, admittedly, many differences, not least of which is that Wikipedia does not appear to be contemplating an invasion of SE to prevent us from getting nukes).
If so, think again: a survey
by the
Democracy Audit
suggests Labour would indeed lose more MPs, about 25, but that the Lib Dems, with a far smaller Commons party, would lose at least seven (and the Tories 13).
Some
suggest that Google undermines our
democracy, specifically
by fostering greater inequality and eroding our notions of privacy.