Sentences with phrase «things about democracy»

Surely, it is perfectly intellectually credible to support a majoritarian electoral system: it just weights different things about democracy differently.

One of the great things about democracy is the fact that ordinary people can change history through...

That's the great thing about the democracy.»

«We certainly consider what the minority is saying, how the press will report it... that's the great thing about democracy, no one acts in a vacuum or without some accountability.»

Not exact matches

Calling Facebook a «a sewer of misinformation,» Joshua Benton of Harvard's Nieman Lab wrote in a post published Wednesday, «Our democracy has a lot of problems, but there are few things that could impact it for the better more than Facebook starting to care — really care — about the truthfulness of the news that its users share and take in.»

So I think we already knew that it was an effort to undermine American democracy and to really say horrible things about Secretary Clinton.

If the choice between fanaticisms, whether secular or religious, is the only thing on offer, the prospects for democracy are dim and talk about civil war may not be alarmist.

About time they worked on that democracy thing.

One of the things about Japan that matters, I'd say, is how we see liberal democracy working itself out in a decidedly non-Western, yet otherwise very modern, nation.

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??

There is worry about various things that the Chinese government might do that would have negative consequences, including repressive measures, but democracy as such is not a focus of anxiety.

In case you missed it, you lost the election, you know... that democracy thing you keep talking about.

More education is required for democracy to flourish — education about the system, the impact of voting, the importance of changing things that are broken and an awareness of what is going on behind the smokescreen.

And we have a Prime Minister who seized the leadership of the Liberal Party by opposing the best method of trying to do something about it and who appoints advisers who believe the whole thing is a plot by the United Nations to undermine democracy.

«The worst thing that can happen in a democracy — as well as in an individual's life — is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

So far in 2017, aside from contemplating the end of democracy as we know it, we've learned a few things about parenting trends that could very well set the tone for the rest of the year.

It blots out so much of what needs to be understood about Tony Blair - the journey he went on from social democracy to Christian democracy, his reconciliation of the apparent contradiction in «if it works we will do it», and «because it is the right thing to do».

And despite all the wailing, moaning and gnashing of teeth about the prolonged Democratic primary season, how can it be a bad thing for democracy (and for Democrats) to have this many people this fired up?

One of the problems about the pejorative use of populism as a bad thing is that it is hard to distinguish it from democracy which is supposed to be a good thing.

Demagogic policies, How many times we have seen politicians saying things like «the wealthy are guilty of the people poverty», or talking about the 2013 US fiscal Cliff agreement «the wealthy have to pay more taxes to finance the people health services», for me those are populist and demagogic tactics to gain more voters, because they know that the democracy is controlled by the mob.

What democracy has always been about is fighting over the public thing.

The Labour leader offers an innovative politics of participation which is about doing things «with» people rather than «to» them, sweeping away anachronistic institutions and inherited privilege; if carried forward this might be the platform for a resurgence of British social democracy.

It's one thing to talk about the «Arab Spring» and democracy, but what if the people vote in the «wrong guy», as happened with Hamas in Palestine?

I'd agree completely with you about the necessity for social democrats to embrace a more participatory democracy - I'd go further and argue that the * only * thing that social democrats need to do is to argue for a more effective expression of democracy - everything else follows from that.

I would disagree about several things - for example, I think we either have a Parliamentary democracy or a Presidential system.

This is one of the things that I like about democracy.

Peter Facey (London, Unlock Democracy): As someone who watches the debate about our electoral system with a keen (if not nerdish) interest and tries to read the tea leaves of what it means for our future, two things are becoming clear.

«It's important to recognise that citizenship isn't just about voting - it's about all the things that make up a democracy from signing petitions to community campaigning.

So go out there, talk about the things you can bring to your constituents, local democracy and local government.

They have no way of hearing it because this is the thing most people pay attention to, so this is a real shame about our democracy at this point,» said Onondaga County Green Party Chair Howie Hawkins.

«Health information, in particular, which can encompass a variety of things from sleep patterns to diagnoses to genetic markers, the data gathered about us can paint a very detailed and personal picture that is essentially impossible to de-identify, making it valuable for a variety of entities such as data brokers, marketers, law enforcement agencies, and criminals,» says Michelle De Mooy, director of the Privacy & Data Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology.

«The worst thing that can happen in a democracy — as well as in an individual's life — is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy and publisher of PRWatch.org and ExposedByCMD.org Her new piece is titled «5 Things to Know About Billionaire Betsy DeVos, Trump Education Choice.»

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.

As I wrote at the time, with all the graphics and lists and other content attending the report release, «Somehow the panel failed to fit in a single graph like this one from the International Energy Agency showing how utterly inconsequential energy research is in advanced democracies (the O.E.C.D.) compared to budgets for science on other things we care about»:

Let's bring it closer to home, because you will know that one of the things that happens here is that whenever there's a dicussion for example about climate change, or the environment in this country, one of the things that is constantly urged is that people, for example, curtail their use of energy, change their behaviour, and the government are asked to impose those changes because you can't trust the democracy to do it themselves.

As the saying goes, democracy is a wonderful thing apart from that bit about any old yokel getting a vote.

But I can't end the day without talking explicitly about some aspect of the whole «participatory democracy» thing.

«A Miniature Kingdom» The most important thing to understand about a courtroom is that while it is an indispensable element of a democratic society, it is not itself a democracy.

Kushner also asserted that his new White House office of American Innovation will seek to «modernize the government's technology infrastructure» as well as make «an effort to bring business sensibility to a government that for too long has relied on past practices as an automatic justification for their continuation» which out of context would be a scary thing to hear coming from an administration with little regard for the foundations of American democracy but in context was mostly kind of boring and about migrating to the cloud.

One of the most exciting things about Bitcoin is that it is a democracy and not owned by anyone or any business.

I'm pretty ignorant about the whole thing but democracy is democracy.