Collocations withdemocracy

I am reminded that that is indeed one of the outcomes of advanced democracy.

French bourgeois democracy is preparing to assassinate the proletariat.

For example, a particular concept of democracy was, in fact, part of communist philosophy.

Admittedly, there is a great deal more that could be said about the institutional characteristics of consociational democracy.

The most widely accepted definition of the consolidation of democracy equates it squarely with legitimation.

The term 'constitutional democracy' can be interpreted as either an oxymoron or a tautology.

Equality was thought of as the cornerstone of democracy.

At a second level, direct democracy provides an additional mechanism for citizens to shape policy outcomes.

As expected, the current system of electoral democracy is found to suffer a great deal from the lack of accountability.

It is the essence of democracy that all groups fight for their own interests.

It is a question of the people's right to openness as the foundation of democracy.

If we wish to have a functioning democracy, its procedures must be transparent and understandable.

However, the new ruling order was far from being a genuine democracy.

It is not pre-answered by the fundamental ideal of democracy itself, but is a matter of prudent institutional choice.

I do not believe that a failure to take account of this matter will win support for the institution of democracy.

Hopefully, the transition should be to liberal democracy and a market economy.

Now we can add cyber-hate websites and the need in a mature democracy for the state to regulate the security of the internet.

It makes a mockery of democracy, shared decision-making and the internal market.

Every modern democracy has elected legislatures and political parties, each of which is a vehicle for a specific type of representation.

All three countries underwent an electoral transition to multi-party democracy during the last decade but their political trajectories have since diverged.

The meaning of democracy as promoting freedom is more prevalent among citizens than is the notion of democracy as providing the rule of law, or equality or majority rule.

In domestic politics, he feared nothing so much as the break-down of parliamentary democracy and civil war.

Both advocated ' participatory democracy ' as a corrective to the excessive power of political party bureaucracies that failed to represent popular interests.

What this means is that we have to get the fourth pillar of democracy, the fourth of the four powers, the media, more involved.

It worked in favour of multi-factions that involved some kind of pluralist democracy.

Oligarchic institutions (like medical self-regulation) are thus coming under challenge from a more pluralistic democracy, while demands are no longer checked by deference to expertise.

That would violate a central principle of democracy, namely, equal citizenship (anonymity of the voter).

In addition, she observes that the collision between feudalism and nascent democracy can result in either absolutism or pure democracy, rendering revolutionary intervention by the disenfranchised classes a probable event.

Substantial shades are evident about the ways in which participation by outlets of organized civil society co-exist with representative democracy.

The restoration of democracy has not produced a clear-cut division between democratic and non-democratic countries, but rather a wide variety of semi-democratic, semi-authoritarian regimes.

The coalition played down class and redistributive themes and underscored the desirability of restoring democracy.

Combined with the return of democracy to those countries is the introduction of liberal economies, privatisation and the opening up of markets.

Using a more detailed dataset we find no support for the socialist threat thesis once we account for the spread of democracy and existing electoral institutions.

Globalization degrades the concept of citizenship, an important prerequisite for a functioning and stable democracy.

Finally, we argue that an important distinction has to be made between procedural and substantive democracy.

First, during the 1980s the business sector in general showed a clearer commitment to supporting democracy than ever before.

Inflation increased considerably relative to the 1960s in virtually every western democracy.

I conceive that to be a very serious matter from the standpoint of the successful working of democracy.