Sentences with phrase «works in a representative democracy»

Some might say that big parties arriving at an agreement that is much to the distaste of smaller parties is exactly how politics typically works in a representative democracy.

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But what they basically show is that direct democracy works better than representative democracy in representing people's preferences.

He wrote: «A strong, representative democracy in Pakistan will defeat terrorism and extremism, show the path to a more stable, prosperous future, and stand as a lasting memorial to the life's work of Benazir Bhutto.

In its appeal, the NYCLU said not knowing why the grand jury ruled not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the death of Garner was «incompatible with the understanding that democracy works best when public policy choices are undertaken by an informed electorate and their representatives.»

Of further note, the conference was joined by Sam Smith of the Progressive Review in Washington, DC; by Mike Feinstein of the California Green Party, who had just helped organize a very successful «Green Parties of the West» conference; by representatives of the Reform Party; by Rob Daniels» «Campaign for a New Tomorrow»; and by the Center for Voting and Democracy, a national organization headed by Rob Richie dedicated to promoting Instant Run - off Voting, Ranked Choice Voting, proportional representation, and electoral reforms supported by many Greens through the Center's FairVote organizing work.

There were also representatives of other International Observer Groups, including the European Union (EU), Carter Center, Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), U.S. National Democratic Institute (NDI), International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA), West Africa Network for Peace building (WANEP), Mano River Union (MRU), and the Women's Situation Room, working for peace and non-violent elections in Africa.

For years I have set my work in dialogue with forms of resistance, I followed different social movements, blockades of summits, workers» controlled factories, and tried to excavate and present existing concepts and models that might be important to imagine alternatives to capitalism and representative democracy.

«This bottom up demand which normally we always want to have and rely on in a representative democracy, is in my view unlikely to work in the case of climate change policy as it has for other environmental problems....