Sentences with phrase «what real democracy»

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For us, it must start with the vision of a peaceful world, where gradually the production and distribution of armaments gives way to the production and distribution of goods and services that benefit the human race instead of threatening to destroy it, a vision of the rule of law rather than of economic domination, a vision of democracy where people are able to have a real say in what their own future will be, a vision of smallness and community involvement, a vision of cultural pluralism and a diversity of ideas, a vision of leisure spent meeting human needs.

What is needed is a Catholic theological interpretation of modern pluralistic democracy, one that insists on real space for the ideas and active contributions of religious traditions, while underscoring the value of respectful argument and even friendship among those who hold competing views.

My question is whether democracy by this definition and by what we see in real world is a type of hegemony.

At last week's «Data - Crunched Democracy» conference, Obama 2012 Chief Scientist Rayid Ghani pointed out a real difference between the data political campaigns work with and what commercial marketers have at their fingertips: volume.

Rather than alluring to the obvious shocking facts and events affecting our planet and way of life, audiences actually see Al Gore for what he's really doing in real life «being the most influential person of his generation» inspiring others to take up arms in the fight for Climate and how the world's democracies are politically unwise when it comes to using the actual solutions.

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In writing Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy, I came to realize what life was like before unions had any real power.

«Together I make the hands spell «democracy» but the people don't have any real idea about what democracy is,» said Capote, who views his manipulation of their hands as mirroring how the Cuban people are always being manipulated, consciously or unconsciously.

This view represents what has been called by political scientists a «textbook» version of democracy that bears no relation to how things actually work in the real world.

If this is the real out - there context, and I think it is in the English - speaking democracies anyway, then the question becomes your last one: «What role for scientists...?