Sentences with phrase «think about democracy»

I think new media is very interesting because it is a field that challenges a lot of assumptions that we've made in the past, particularly with regard to education; it challenges how we think about citizenship; it challenges even how we think about democracy.

And this is changing how we think about politics, it's changing how we think about democracy.

This ontological turn has opened up space for new ways of thinking about democracy, but in my view it has some troubling entailments too — it culminates in the effective detachment of political dynamics from social relations of power and results in the unvindicated privileging of the former over the latter.

Not exact matches

I thought about how much Americans value democracy and having their voices heard, yet I was perplexed that so few people were speaking out.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

«When you talk about this sort of natural business relationship, beyond the political relationship of the two largest democracies in the world, I think that is an important relationship to maintain especially when you look at what is going on in the world today in many of the other markets and in many of the upcoming powers,» he said.

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

In Evangelium Vitae, he thinks the two cultures are future possibilities before Western democracies and so there is nothing determined about what is ahead.

Tocqueville provides us with five guideposts for thinking about the future relation of democracy and religion.

DO N'T think you understand democracy if you think it's only about elections: it's about injecting as much of your religious culture and mindset which excludes freedom of thought, freedom of expression, political and religious pluralism, and human rights.

Those who think that thinking about the Cold War is old hat will not appreciate Revel's searing indictment of Western intellectuals who, had they had their way, would have sold out democracy to Communist totalitarianism.

maybe these religious leaders should be thinking about why they tacitly supported arab dictators for so long (and still do) while their own people are rising up for (american style) democracy.

DO N'T think you understand democracy if you think it's only about elections: it's about a culture and mindset which includes freedom of thought, freedom of expression, political and religious pluralism, and human rights.

For reasons Maritain articulates at some length, a certain kind of democracy, guarded against the diseases to which «pure» democracies are prey, best represents the full flowering of human practical wisdom about the sorts of institutions worthy of Jewish and Christian thought.

I think it is appropriate in our liberal democracy for Christians, along with adherents of other religions, to make decisions about political issues on the basis of whatever considerations they find true and relevant.

When you're talking about Revelation you're talking about Jesus» Second Coming, and there are a lot of Christians who think that their religion wouldn't be worth the effort unless they personally got to see their Lord and Savior slaughter all the liberals and end democracy like it says in that book.

You can also tell a tween or teen that knowing how to read, write and think critically about issues is important in our democracy.

For more on the privacy angle and some big - think considerations about how this affects democracy in a broad sense, see Daniel Kreiss's Stanford Law Review article, Yes We Can (Profile You)-- A Brief Primer on Campaigns and Political Data.

The attempt to know everything about everybody on a global level is a totalitarian power, whether or not you think that power is being exercised in order to reduce or to limit democracy.

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.

«This is a debate that won't go away and I believe that the BBC has to think carefully about its presence locally and the impact that has on local democracy,» she added.

Few democracies have spent so much time thinking so publicly about the cultural foundations of good standards.

With the electorate increasingly consulted directly on a broad range of issues you would be forgiven for thinking that the use of the referendum had brought about a golden age of democracy.

Cem Özdemir summarized the first two points by saying that he feels ill when thinking about Turkish government officials advertising the demise of Turkish democracy in Germany.

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.

This issue, however, about the nature of citizenship in republican thought and the (pre) conditions for certain kinds of citizen activity pose a difficulty when turning to republicanism for guidance in contemporary democracies.

He was also asked about his refusal to debate Teachout, and specifically about his recent comment that «I've been in many debates that I think were a disservice to democracy.»

«Secondly we need to think big about social democracy and allay the scepticism about globalisation and immigration... We in the centre ground need to make our policies as exciting and innovative and popular as those on different wings of all politics.»

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

Our bigger job is to help America fulfill the promise of democracy itself, the promise that this is a country where everybody gets a chance — no matter who you are, where you come from, where you live, or what you think about the issues of the day,» said Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who in addition to talking up politics announced she would put $ 175,000 of her campaign cash into the National Democratic Redistricting Committee and campaigns for state legislature seats.

I think there has to be some overall recognition; what we're talking about here is an issue of fundamental importance to a democracy, that ministers do not lie on the floor of the House of Commons.

While all eyes are on the EU referendum, another big international deal is taking place that will show us what David Cameron really thinks about parliamentary democracy.

There is no reason to think that it's an effective way to bring about change and even if Western democracies really had the power to remake other countries in their image, it's not entirely unproblematic to dictate (once again!)

Whatever the outcome, the left needs to listen to that message and think about how we can reconnect voters with a rejuvenated democracy.

Some more thoughts based on Revious» comment about how democracy ends up with sub optimal laws and about long time periods for change.

I just thought you ought to know the shit you're in so you won't get too excited about defending a Monarchy that the local politicians have used consistently since 1919 to undermine democracy in Australia.

On Wednesday, Assemblymember James Brennan, who led the effort in his chamber, said in a statement, «When we think about the intent behind campaign finance laws, they are supposed to protect our democracy from corruption while preserving the integrity of our elections.

«All the candidates contribute ideas and their proposals, and I think that's what democracy is all about, to give the public a choice to make a decision,» she said.

«A smidgen of democracy I don't think will go amiss, since we've been talking about it for about 100 years.»

Absolutely nobody thinks about the country first; we all think about ourselves first, our families second, our parties third, maybe, our communities fourth and Ghana comes a distant fifth or sixth or even tenth,» he said at a lecture to open the National Democratic Congress» Institute of Social Democracy at the party's headquarters in Accra on Friday.

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).

When asked about former Prime Minister Tony Blair's dealings with the press, he said Mr Blair believed the press made people feel cynical and negative about politics and politicians and thought this was undermining Britain's democracy.

«As much as we think about it, we don't count for a lot of votes,» he said, noting the loss of Personal Democracy Media's Andrew Rasiej in the 2005 Public Advocate election.

Ms Stuart said: «I think we'd all benefit, including our democracy, to go back to what the referendum is about.»

«If there's a potential way to do a caucus instead in the state, given the few number of voters in a particular party, that's what we're thinking about — it has nothing to do with democracy,» said Politi (I - North Elba).

«But the other reason why I think it's unfortunate... we really should be talking about the substantive issues about our democracy.»

Using examples from a range of scientific controversies, The Honest Broker challenges us all - scientists, politicians and citizens - to think carefully about how best science can contribute to policy - making and a healthy democracy.

Rosewater made me think differently about our democracy — that can't be taken lightly.

Neither fully democratic nor fully authoritarian, we can only hope that the competitive authoritarian regime will prove useful as a warning to all states in transition about the pitfalls found on the road to democracy, yet given the alarming number of flawed elections we have seen in 2013, this may only be wishful thinking.

«As a result, your approach to social relationships and the emotions you have toward role models, teachers, and peers will change the way you think about non-social concepts like math or democracy or political issues like the death penalty.