Sentences with phrase «with liberal democracy»

The international community has invested a great deal to help the Afghan state move toward the ideals of good governance we associate with liberal democracy in the West.

To the extent that full - blooded socialism is returning to compete with liberal democracy for the allegiance of modern persons, it does so in populist garb — and in the future, its....

That is not the case with liberal democracies.

So it is with liberal democracies, which almost never work out as planned but somehow progress ever closer to finding the right balance between individual liberty and social order.

Not exact matches

But it is no doubt important for China's leadership to be seen shaking hands with leaders of respected liberal democracies.

The Liberal government has committed to moving beyond our firstpast - the - post (FPTP) electoral system and replacing it with something better suited to democracy in the 21st century.

The Liberal government has committed to moving beyond our first - past - the - post (FPTP) electoral system and replacing it with something better suited to democracy in the 21st century.

Weigel writes: «Avoiding the really hard questions, O'Brien's Massey Lectures are replete with what cigar - makers call «filler»: ill - informed cracks about American presidential politics; typically dismissive liberal cliches about a somnambulant Ronald Reagan; a strange obsession with the Clinton Administration's «Operation Restore Democracy» in Haiti.

He traces our unease to the father of liberal democracy, John Locke, and to his claim that what nature provides for us is «virtually worthless,» becoming valuable only when mixed with our labor.

Brian C. Anderson has it right that capitalism is part of our moral problem but, like Francis Fukuyama, follows up a discouraging diagnosis of modern liberal democracy with an optimistic remedy for its potentially fatal diseases.

Leading French Catholics thus began to claim that the Revolution's fundamental commitment to democracy was incompatible with the liberal freedom of religion it had earlier upheld.

D. Kagan, modern liberal democracies have abandoned that ideals (i agree with his assessment,) choosing to take men «as they are».

Disagreeing with the critics ofliberal democracy, he declares, «I regard liberal democracy as a pearl of great price.»

And he appears disinclined to credit the contribution to liberal democracy made — starting with the provision of a counterweight to progressive excesses — by those who cherish tradition.

But Ober is more interested in confronting modern liberal and post-liberal «democracy» with the genuine ancient ideal, the Athenian «people power» of the fifth and fourth centuries b.c., on which he has had so many original and persuasive things to say since publishing Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens in 1989.

Demopolis is a stimulating and even provocative thought experiment that successfully highlights the value of democracy, whether or not rule by the people is fused with a liberal order.

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.

He expressed the concern that liberal democracy becomes vulnerable if it loses touch with deeper metaphysical warrants.

Peter learned two things from the dissidents: the notion of «living in the truth»; and the disconcerting thought that Communism and Western liberal democracy had things in common, modern science to begin with, that challenged human freedom and dignity.

With the removal of socialism as an alternative, the whole world is thrown open to the claim of market economy, liberal democracy and the powerful march of Western cultural values all over the globe.

Our society now feels a sense of unease with regard to liberal democracy.

The few available attempts to link Whiteheadian metaphysics with political categories can be illustrated in the works of A. H. Johnson and Samuel Beer.1 Essentially, they become exercises in identifying which existing political alternative — liberal democracy, social - revolutionary democracy, fascism, etc. — is most synonymous with Whitehead's formulations.

The electoral triumph of Christian Democracy within the institutional framework of the liberal state created a new situation with respect to the problem of civil religion.

But if endowments are conceived solely as instruments, rather than equal partners with the state in pursuit of the public good, then the classic principle of private association in liberal democracies has been lost, for instrumentality implies that government alone is the public good's ultimate arbiter.

I believe liberal constitutionalism with substantial fundamental commitments to democracy, human rights, and the rule of law and sufficient attention to local indigenous concerns - what I call indigenization - can be appropriately responsive to local concerns with the development and maintenance of fundamental political values.

Others favour the model set out most credibly by American foreign policy expert John Hulsman, who advocates an ambitious global free trade area with a security element — effectively tying the world's liberal democracies together, with Britain playing a significant new role within this new structure.

The team also debate whether democracies can grapple with complex economic problems; plus first - past - the - post in multi-party elections, the fate of the Liberal Democrats, and in light of this week's election result in Finland, our tendency to idolise Nordic politics.

What we should surely be aware of is that these issues connect directly with the much broader and ongoing global debate about the future of government and the challenge that the rise of non-democratic countries, like China, pose to the universal aspirations of liberal democracy.

Liberal Republicans (Centre Republicans): Alan Milburn, Anthony Giddens (to a large extent), Richard Reeves, Philip Collins Democratic Republicans (Left Republicans): Gordon Brown, Ed Balls, Ed Miliband, Jim Knight, The Co-operative Party, Scientists for Labour, James Purnell has flirted with Liberal Republicanism, but may well have shifted to Democratic republicanism, as he proved in his resignation letter in the Times, calling for a more open democracy, a more active state and greater regulation.

The Liberal Democrat answer — with its emphasis upon community politics, internal democracy and federalism — has typically been very different to that offered by the other parties.

Blair's project is to dismantle the Labour Party as a party based on the unions, to destroy the elements of democracy which exist within the party and to transform the British political party system, through electoral reform, to make possible a long - term governmental alliance with the Liberal Democrats and, if possible, the Heseltine - Clarke wing of the Tory Party.

There is much common ground, too, with the ideas for «community - wealth building» being developed very concretely by the Democracy Collaborative in the US, though there is a stronger emphasis in their work on the need to root capital in specific places than one usually finds in the alternative liberal tradition.

The party shares in the mission of many of the worldwide Green Parties and generally supports a left - leaning, liberal platform on the American political spectrum with an emphasis on the core tenets of environmental protection, social justice, grassroots democracy, and pacifism.

Nigel Farage has told ITV News Ukip will not unite with Front National, the right - wing French party led Marine Le Pen, and the party will instead seek to join forces with parties that have views «consistent with classical liberal democracy».

«But I do think that Australia, along with other liberal democracies around the world, have got to take the threat of foreign interference seriously.»

As part of the 2017 Audit of UK Democracy, Sonali Campion, Sean Kippin and the DA team examine how the UK's deeply controversial current second chamber, the House of Lords, matches up to the criteria for liberal democracies with bi-cameral legislatures.

These included: the need to examine the best ways to tackle anti-social behaviour; putting industrial democracy back at the forefront of our economic policies; giving a higher profile to fuel poverty; the need to spend more on social housing; and a desire to talk about policy to those with similar perspectives from outside the Liberal Democrats.

This time — with the important caveat set out below — the more people who vote Liberal Democrat on 6 May, the greater the chance that this will be Britain's last general election under a first - past - the - post electoral system which is wholly unsuited to the political needs of a grown - up 21st - century democracy.

In Europe, this social liberalism is closer to European Social democracy although the original form is advocated by some liberal parties in Europe as well, as with the Beveridge Group faction within the Liberal Democrats (United Kingdom), Liberals (Sweden), Danish Social Liberal Party, the Democratic Movement (France), the Italian Republican Party or the Free Democratic Party of Germany, for eliberal parties in Europe as well, as with the Beveridge Group faction within the Liberal Democrats (United Kingdom), Liberals (Sweden), Danish Social Liberal Party, the Democratic Movement (France), the Italian Republican Party or the Free Democratic Party of Germany, for eLiberal Democrats (United Kingdom), Liberals (Sweden), Danish Social Liberal Party, the Democratic Movement (France), the Italian Republican Party or the Free Democratic Party of Germany, for eLiberal Party, the Democratic Movement (France), the Italian Republican Party or the Free Democratic Party of Germany, for example.

«The way to stand up to Trump's attacks on our democracy and working families can not be to empower Republicans in the State Senate whose goals are aligned with the Trump regime,» said Bill Lipton, state director of the Working Families Party, a labor - backed group that has pushed Democrats to embrace liberal policies.

There is no point in complaining about Vince Cable's annual left - leaning speech to the Liberal Democrat conference - the crude jokes about bankers, the re-plugging of his beloved mansions tax, the way in which support for deficit reduction is wrapped up in the garnish of social democracy, with Bevin, Cripps and Roy Jenkins prayed in aid.

Unlike GOP primaries, where a handful of big spending conservative groups can influence races, the Democratic grass roots — including liberal groups like the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America, which is pleading with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - Mass.)

Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg discusses the importance of voting in a democracy with pupils from Treviglas Community College, Newquay.

Liberal Democrat Baroness Williams earlier told The World This Weekend that democracy had been up for sale in the election - with many high - profile Lib Dem MPs «decapitated» by the power of money.

A heady concoction, then, with contemporary parallels for those who need them (liberal democracy versus religious fundamentalism, confessions extracted under duress) and a swashbuckling climactic sea - battle straight out of Pirates Of The Caribbean.

We thus stand in solidarity with the new students» group, SEALDs (the Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy - s) in opposing the bills.

Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals, religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass protests in the first place.

It recaps the major differences between philanthropy and government, beginning with a useful distinction between two «different worldviews about the role of foundations in a liberal democracy.»

The opening night's Big Debate will deal with a «massive canvas», addressing «all the most important aspects of our global future» including IT, geopolitics, and the future of liberal democracy.

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