Sentences with phrase «with real democracy»

Perhaps, far from being apolitical, demands across the political spectrum to empower the 99 % with real democracy are republican in spirit, as are pragmatic efforts to share control of our wealth and workplaces.

Not exact matches

Overall, concluded political scientist Yun - han Chu, who studied Asian Barometer surveys about East Asians» commitment to democracy, «authoritarianism remains a fierce competitor of democracy in East Asia,» in no small part because of the influence of China's ability to foster economic success without real political change, providing an alternative model that is clearly visible to other East Asians, who travel to China, work with Chinese companies, buy Chinese products, and host Chinese officials.

But in this democracy of ours, pseudo or real, the arrangements for the act of possession and the essential steps of pious subterfuge, false witness, indictment without defense, and finally violence and murder - all this is, in a manner of speaking, done in our name and sealed with our seal.

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.

Real democracy could take # 200 billion (30 %) off the cost of running the UK by replacing our unproductive politicians and senior civil servants by a few elected co-ordinators with emergency powers only.

Edited to discuss some real world governments with Direct Democracy in some form.

It also have to do with limited real democracy, more corruption, less freedom of press et.c.

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.

Particularly with a general election less than two years away, conference as the platform for presenting ourselves as a party of real democracy, as well as being passionate about policy, is really important.

In Six Encounters with Lincoln: A Presidency Confronts Democracy and Its Demons (Viking) Pryor through a series of vignettes gives a real warts and all analysis of President Lincoln.

Just as President Muhammadu Buhari looks to new partnership with the Nigerian people our hope is that in your capacity as a CHANGE Minister you will help to thoroughly bring reform and plant real democracy within the society.

«We need to eat vegetables to have real democracy,» she said, «but people are opting to only eat dessert,» referring to the gluttony of media consumption preoccupied with sports, celebrity and the like.

Meanwhile, the newly elected National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, has pledged that the party, under his watch, would adhere strictly to internal democracy with a deliberate policy to return «real» power to the people.

«Under my watch, internal democracy will be strictly adhered to with a deliberate policy to return «real» power to the people.

The only presidential campaign - derived organization so far with real independent influence started with Howard Dean: Democracy for America directly descends from the citizen - driven movement that tried to put him in the White House twelve years ago.

The PDP leader said, «The only way forward politically in Nigeria is for the only party with national widespread, the PDP, to go back to the basics and bring all its members back, create a level playing field and entrench internal party democracy so that the acronym of power to the people could become real.

There is an alternative: by linking referendums with complementary forms of deliberative and participatory democracy, people have the opportunity to learn and discuss the real facts and issues before being required to make a final decision.

«Therefore, it is imperative that we implement real campaign finance reform and provide citizens with a voice in the very foundation of democracy — the ballot box.»

To a large extent duing the tory rule in the 80s and 90s there was no real democracy in scotland, with no democratic accountability.

So hacktivist groups are now building tools that buttress their efforts with real ballot - box power, helping people deploy their votes effectively and liberating policymaking from the wonks and lobbyists (see «Better than a ballot box: Could digital democracy win your vote?

This is Dewey updated, with education for democracy in conflict with democracy in action as it acts in the real world on education.

The real threat to national security is squeezing the democracy out of our schools with such «reform school» approaches replacing efforts at real school reform, and with standardized testing narrowing the curriculum so that our schools are simply no longer able to produce informed citizens.

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.

The real issue is whether humans can arrive at a sustainable long term accommodation with the planet voluntarily and consensually (Democracy) or whether it must be imposed at the direction of high minded individuals who are better than, or know more than, everyone else (Authoritarianism).

Instead, by taking a dogmatic, anti-intellectual point of view on many issues and demonizing those who disagree with him (though not much in this particular book), he has become a polarizing force, taking us further from the crucial compromises that are needed to pave the way to real environmental progress in a democracy.

Possible topics about pedagogy include: • Structuring statutory drafting courses • Simulation courses designed using mock legislatures or committees • Course linkages with real - world legislators and special interest organizations • Service learning or clinical opportunities for law students • Courses focused on law reform efforts • How to employ Plain - English principles in statutory and rule drafting • Theoretical perspectives on statutory drafting • Involving political realities in law school drafting courses • Teaching practical aspects of drafting that addresses theories and principles of statutory interpretation and construction Possible topics about practice include: • Unique challenges of drafting laws and / or regulations in specific areas such as criminal law, environmental, health law, etc. • Lawyering for non-profits, federal and state agencies, local governments, and other clients in frequent need of rule - drafting • Practicing in employment law, health law, environmental law, and other heavily regulated fields where private clients require rule and policy drafting • Non-legal drafting opportunities, such as sports league rules, industry trade group policies, and university rules Possible topics about politics include: • Political influences affecting legislative drafting • Direct democracy and the unique challenges of drafting initiatives and referenda • The implications of special interests driving drafting decisions • Polictics and its influence on legislative history • Lobbyists as legislative drafters.