Sentences with phrase «which real democracy»

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We may be entering, or may in fact already have entered, a period in which democracy in the United States is more illusionary than real.

If it is ever to be brought into being in the real world, my basic democracy would, of course, require a fleshed - out superstructure in which real humans could live together — arguing as well as deliberating, competing as well as deciding, united and distinguished by something beyond their shared conviction that equality, freedom, and civic dignity are essential to collective self - government by citizens.

The issue of blatantly false (or at least extremely embellished) news stories has gotten so bad, that researchers at Stanford's Graduate School of Education call it «a threat to democracy» after a «dismaying» study found that most American students can't tell the difference between which headlines are real and which ones are fake.

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?

«I do believe,» she told the audience, «that the way in which technology is architected affects power in very real ways, and the structure of the technologies of the future actually are the structure of the democracies of the future and how much meaningful power people have over their own lives.»

The Senate President said the real challenge to the sustenance of the democracy, which the country had experienced in the last 18 years, was the need for a solid economy that would ensure that the citizens enjoyed high standard of living and there was even development across the country.

As the political scene in the 1990s came under the sway of the Brazilian real monetary stabilization plan, which ended decades of rampant inflation, former Minister of Finance Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB)-RRB- defeated Lula in 1994 and again, by an even wider margin, in 1998.

Consequently, it requires a reorganizational transformation which develops a real neuronal constellation of interpersonal solidarity through a common minimum curricular, where universal ethical values serve as the fundamental meeting point, emanated from Human Rights and the Universal Declaration of Democracy.

To be sure, these accountability measures, which are as much the product of Bush - NCLB as Obama - RTTT, left much to be desired and C3S often argued, at times to the displeasure of other charter advocates, that the accountability to which we were being held was overly narrow and poorly aligned with the needs of a 21st century democracy drowning in real - world problems.

Socioeconomic Democracy provides a comprehensive, just, realizable, freedom - enhancing, environment - respecting, democratic means of accomplishing not only the modest, though presently doubtful, Millennium Development Goals, but also simultaneously resolving or reducing a large number of other very real and crucial planetary problems, any of which could easily preclude realization of all well - intentioned MDGs.

While the climate issue is still poorly understood by the general public, we all need to promote the benefits of a real transition towards a sustainable and renewable system model: job creation, restoring democracy, community power - decentralisation of energy systems which are now mostly in the hands of big corporations, energy sovereignty, improved air quality and health, a better quality of life...

From a more theoretical point of view, I think the real question is this: how has the Quebec government managed to hang a proposal which limits freedom of religion on the values of state neutrality and the separation of church and state, when these values were implemented in Western democracies precisely to protect citizens» freedom of religion and promote religious diversity?