Liquid democracy is an always-on mashup between direct democracy and representative democracy.
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For more lessons on democracy from Facing History, see Democracy and Us and How to Assess the Strength of a Democracy.
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"We're a parliamentary democracy, not a direct democracy," he said.
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Discourse is ... democracy without discourse is not a democracy, right?
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Nothing screams American democracy more than this picture. Democracy. pic.twitter.
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You either have a democracy or you have no democracy.
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He is using the language of democracy to subvert democracy.
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Virtual direct democracy through social media has outflanked representative democracy.
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"We have been, and will be, calling and defending justice, justice, justice, and democracy, democracy, democracy," he told reporters during his march.
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But today "we are seeing the rise of illiberal democracy, or democracy without rights, and undemocratic liberalism, or rights without democracy," Mounk writes.
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Democracy based on argument was replaced by democracy based on correctness.
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"That's what makes a democracy a democracy vs a dictatorship" pic.twitter.
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We live in a parliamentary democracy and not a plebiscitary democracy.
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American democracy, and democracy in Europe, have entered shark-infested waters.
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That is economic democracy, the long-neglected complement to political democracy.
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You might think of liberal democracy as democracy with legal buffers.
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If you study history, you understand democracy, and you love democracy.
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I fought for democracy, and for people who are committed to democracy.
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We can't call ourselves a representative democracy until our democracy is representative.
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For direct democracy to succeed, we need representative democracy to succeed first.
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To fix the excesses of direct democracy, it will take representative democracy.
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He added, "That's what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship."
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The "democracy" part of Orbán's illiberal democracy is, of course, a sham.
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In effect, "democracy has become the enemy of democracy," Ms. Matar said.
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That isn't a blow to democracy; that is the essence of democracy.
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"If Michael Bloomberg's version of democracy wins, then democracy changes," she said.
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" He continued: "That's what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship.
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But even if Facebook was a democracy, which democracy would it be?
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Which vision of our democracy, which version of our democracy, is going to win, and if Michael Bloomberg's version of democracy wins, then democracy changes, and it's going to be about which billionaire you can stomach going forward.
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An inspiring conversation about democracy with Danielle Allen I talk about democracy a lot on the show, but democracy is Harvard philosopher Danielle Allen's life's work.
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We think democracy is the highest thing; it is not democracy, come on.
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And I think progressives are more interested in democracy protection or democracy preservation.
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What the founding fathers wanted was a representative democracy, not a pure democracy.
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"Those of us in favor of democracy have a mandate to defend democracy."
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The city's pro-democracy lawmakers vetoed the package, which critics called "fake democracy".
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The most important aspect of our democracy is the democracy part: the voting.
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You are not only what democracy counts on, you are what democracy is.
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Partisan conflict is necessary for democracy, because one-party politics is not democracy.
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Instead of abandoning democracy, maybe what we need is more and better democracy.
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Democracy. A handful of states approved pro-democracy measures, often by wide margins.
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Opinion Columnist A democracy that cannot change its mind is not a democracy.
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To blunt Trump's attack on our democracy, we have to use our democracy.
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It's not math versus democracy; it's math versus math, with democracy at stake.
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How do we think about strengthening our democracy...a high functioning, robust democracy?
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" Democracy reform and voter suppression: "There is no question — democracy reform is critical.
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Neither "Democracy Spring" nor "Democracy Awakening" is affiliated with a particular party or candidate.
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"Democracy is for all, and democracy is the will of the people," he said.
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"We knew that a more inclusive democracy was a more viable democracy," he says.
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These are flaws in the design of democracy, but not threats to democracy itself.
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Whether that's party democracy in the Labour party or parliamentary democracy in the nation.
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Sadly, the alternative vision of democracy isn't actually a vision of democracy at all.
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A democracy – especially a liberal democracy – is only as strong as its political institutions.
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Digitized democracy in the 21st century cannot be the democracy of the 20th century.
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Here's this week's briefing: Brazil: Stabbing democracy Democracy in Brazil is literally under assault.
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"A strong democracy needs a culture that promotes and celebrates democracy," Dewitt told Hill.
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This is not a direct democracy, and Rome was not a direct democracy either.
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"This is a strength of democracy and a weakness of democracy," Mr. Svolik said.
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It's a democracy, and a democracy means you have to bring other people along.
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Politics is defined by a growing battle between illiberal democracy, or democracy without rights, on the one hand, and undemocratic liberalism, or rights without democracy, on the other.
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If a company is the primary defender of a democracy, that democracy is in trouble.
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Democracy Spring is part of a larger coalition of groups including 93Rise and Democracy Matters.
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" He added: "I think that is what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship.
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We explain elections using the language of democracy, but we are clearly not a democracy.
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The blueprint was vetoed in 2015 by pro-democracy lawmakers as "fake" Chinese-style democracy.
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A functioning democracy can heal itself, unless a democracy has become neither free nor equitable.
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"We live in a messy, contentious democracy, and democracy is built on compromise," he said.
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What about support for democracy in principle, not just satisfaction with American democracy right now?
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"Contemporary democracy runs the same risk of ancient Greece democracy: turning into tyranny," he said.
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Forced to choose between putting democracy or identity first, people may not always pick democracy.
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"It's all about inclusivity, democracy, and the democracy of style," she told ABC last year.
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Democracy Watch, a democracy reform advocacy group, challenged former Commission of Lobbying Karen Shepherd's decision.
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Frankly, a democracy that cannot withstand differing opinions isn't much of a democracy at all.
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The United Sates was downgraded from "full democracy" to "flawed democracy" in the 2016 Democracy Index, which cites declining trust in the government as the cause of its new rating.
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If democracy furthers profit, then long live democracy; if democracy impedes profit, then long live Citizens United and private security forces flown in to beat back the disaster-riled mobs.
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"That is why we need democracy," says Martin Lee, a veteran of the pro-democracy cause.
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Moritz Ritter, managing director of Berlin-based advocacy group Liquid Democracy, which is unaffiliated with Democracy.
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Hoppe's book, Democracy: The God That Failed, argues that monarchy is preferable to modern mass democracy.
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"The people have voted in favour of democracy, they have chosen democracy," CHP leader Kilicdaroglu said.
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I have often said that success without democracy is improbable, and democracy without women is impossible.
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The National Endowment for Democracy already allocates $1.3 million a year to Armenia for democracy development.
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Threats to democracy Second, Trump's tweets yesterday shine a light on how much he threatens democracy.
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The year 2008 was when democracy peaked, according to a prominent democracy advocacy group, Freedom House.
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We thought we could learn something from Western countries about democracy, but democracy cannot be exported.
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Easterbrook is good on democracy and dictatorship (democracy is better at money and better at war).
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Critics worry that the party is using the tools of democracy to undermine that very democracy.
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Democratic socialists are committed to democracy Democratic socialists also believe strongly in democracy and democratic principles.
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"Democracy requires sacrifice, democracy requires the respect of rules just like the Constitution orders," he said.
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As the President has said: 'they're looking for democracy and I think most people want democracy'.
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As the President has said: 'they're looking for democracy and I think most people want democracy.
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As I point out in "The Edge of Democracy," the elite got tired of playing democracy.
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This describes the democratic paradox that underlies American constitutionalism: to preserve democracy, we must limit democracy.
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"China has no democracy and yet it is criticizing Taiwan for reversing over democracy," she said.
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"The only cure for democracy is more democracy," he said, according to The New York Times.
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That would render those fundamental building blocks of democracy, and thus democracy itself, even more unstable.
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It's in the nature of democracy, within American democracy, that candidates often win with disillusioned voters.
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A democracy, and certainly a presidential democracy, without a strong, free, and active press is problematic.
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"I call on all of you to join us in this pan-European quest for democracy in Europe, democracy in Germany as a condition for prosperity and authentic democracy," he said.
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A lot of people equate democracy with liberal democracy or democracy with political outcomes that most of us find agreeable — support for minority rights, rule of law, political equality, tolerance of dissent.
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Our study of democracy within parties highlights the fact that democracy isn't just about voting and participation.
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In "The People v Democracy", Yascha Mounk of Harvard University stresses that liberalism and democracy are separable.
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DEMOCRACY stopped declining in 2018, according to the latest edition of The Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index.
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Just as political democracy only works with checks and balances, the same is true for shareholder democracy.
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The first thing I would say is that it's impossible to undo democracy by having more democracy.
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The National League for Democracy will need to transition from a democracy movement to a governing party.
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The fact that democracy is increasingly imperiled makes institutions like the National Endowment for Democracy more important.
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That's because the US is often described as a democracy, but it's far from a direct democracy.
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Democracy, especially liberal democracy, has always been dependent on the trust and belief of the self-governed.
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"We want a real democracy, not a facade of a democracy," said postal worker Zakaria Jaziri 26.
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"Liberal democracy is in favor of multiculturalism, while Christian democracy gives priority to Christian culture," he said.
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"Sustainable democracy in the world depends on the United States being a beacon of democracy," he argued.
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It wasn't labeled the week when democracy died because there won't be a week when democracy died.
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In sum, this is a call for a little less democracy in favor of better quality democracy.
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Pro-democracy candidates won 347 seats, while independents — many of whom are pro-democracy — won another 1.
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"Democracy dies when there is no support for democracy, when people don't believe in it," she said.
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"Human rights are the essence of democracy and democracy is an extension of human rights," wrote Han.
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"American democracy is in crisis," Kai Newkirk, Democracy Spring's Campaign Director, said in a statement on Friday.
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No one actually said the words "too much democracy," a phrase probably frowned on at democracy conferences.
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The United States entered the 20th century as a democracy promoter, then retreated from democracy promotion at the height of the Cold War, only to embrace democracy promotion again during the Carter administration.
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Every leader of American democracy spied against every leader of the Russian dictatorship who attacked our democracy, as Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has attacked and continues to attack American and Western democracy today.
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Or do you accept so-called democracy where dictatorship or tyranny is being disguised behind a democracy picture?
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What I can say is that I think democracy is better than dictatorships, and democracy is about elections.
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Since the founding of American democracy, scholars and pundits have noted the necessity of political parties for democracy.
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It's a weird combination of democracy in action, but also democracy being shut down at the same time.
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"We have replaced a shipwrecked liberal democracy with a 21st-century Christian democracy," he said on May 10th.
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This package was vetoed in 2015 by opposition pro-democracy lawmakers who called it fake, China-style democracy.
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"I think our democracy has been hacked by big money long before Putin hacked our democracy," Gore said.
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"Hitler did not have to destroy democracy; he merely took advantage of the decay of democracy," Hayek wrote.
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The bill fights foreign interference in American democracy while not losing sight of what makes that democracy great.
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It is called an industrial democracy because economic freedom and our democracy are deeply intertwined and mutually inclusive.
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Now, our democracy is stronger than ever, as confirmed by the latest "Democracy Index" published by The Economist.
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Special Report: Democracy 2016 WASHINGTON — These are tough days for enthusiasts of the world's steady march of democracy.
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My hope is that, we believe at the Sanders Institute, that democracy, vital democracy, requires an informed electorate.
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"In 1979, Iranians experienced a revolution without democracy; today they aspire for democracy without a revolution," Sadjadpour said.
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You know conservative, liberal, otherwise I think that is what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship.
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India already had political democracy (one vote per citizen), but the constitution also needed to foster social democracy.
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" Similarly, the Democracy Index of The Economist Intelligence Unit now ranks the US only as a "flawed democracy.
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"There is an alternative to liberal democracy: it is called Christian democracy," he said at this summer's gathering.
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Liberal democracy is pro-immigration, while Christian democracy is anti-immigration; this is again a genuinely illiberal concept.
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"A referendum is not a form of direct democracy," Nadia Urbinati, a Columbia University scholar of democracy, said.
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Journalism needs democracy and democracy needs journalism - we have to fulfill that role as best as we can.
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"China is trying to discredit and dismantle Taiwan democracy," said Ketty Chen of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy.
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Nations are then classified under four types of governments: full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid regime and authoritarian regime.
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Before anyone else, he was onto the way that direct democracy through social media has buried representative democracy.
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One of the core tenets of socialism is that "economic democracy" is just as important as political democracy.
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"In the face of authoritarianism, the response is not authoritarian democracy but the authority of democracy," Macron said.
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Another conflict of interest occurred when Vin Weber was awarded the Democracy Service Medal in recognition of his service as National Endowment for Democracy (NED) chairman for his support for democracy and human dignity.
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On a much different scale, we should be thinking of crimes against democracy -- actions perhaps legal in letter but not in fostering the basic concepts, values and processes of democracy, and particularly, American democracy.
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Later on, in "'Democracy,' or the City of Dreams," the Greek-American director Elia Kazan says that Greek democracy is a legend, going so far as to consider it not a democracy at all.
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I make a distinction generally between the extreme right, which opposes democracy as such, and the radical right, which accepts democracy but challenges some of the fundamentals of liberal democracy — particularly pluralism and minority rights.
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We can disagree in a democracy, and that's what a democracy is about, but I hope all of us agree that we're going to not allow billionaires and their Super PACs to destroy American democracy.
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Then President Reagan himself turned to more robust forms of democracy promotion by the end of his term, and created the modern non-government architecture of U.S. democracy promotion, including the National Endowment for Democracy.
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If people go out to vote, if people show up to the polls, democracy -- he says democracy will work.
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The media, the press, plays a significant role in our democracy, and in any democracy they are highly critical.
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Although just 12% of Venezuelans are happy with how their "democracy" functions, 75% prefer democracy to any other system.
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What we have now is hardly a democracy, or at least, not a democracy that we should settle for.
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Brexit is not so much exposing the weaknesses of democracy as pointing out, once again, how democracy should operate.
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On the future of social democracy Returning to where we started, do you think social democracy has a future?
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Put another way, conspiracy theories aren't eroding democracy so much as they signal that a democracy is already decaying.
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You could be forgiven for thinking that in this election representation is trumping the democracy in Germany's representative democracy.
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When democracy was introduced by force by the Allies in the late 1940s, views about democracy were pretty ambivalent.
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He can't bring democracy to Pakistan — for democracy to institutionalize, the army must step back as a minimum condition.
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For many pro-democracy Westerners, Mr. Orban's efforts to build an "illiberal democracy" inside the European Union is chilling.
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He was a founding member of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), which campaigned for democracy for years.
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Can a democracy be destroyed by someone who has only the barest idea of what the word "democracy" means?
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"Conservative, liberal or otherwise, I think that's what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship," he said. Huh.
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Reagan made his historic 1982 speech on democracy and liberty to the progenitor of modern democracy, the British Parliament.
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"Kuczysnki is an adversary in democracy while Fujimorismo is a threat to democracy," he told local newspaper, La República.
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I recently read a new report from the Democracy Project that showed that only 60 percent of Americans think it's "absolutely important" to live in a democracy and 68 percent think American democracy is getting weaker.
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Unless one wants to say that a democracy remains a democracy as long as the government does not stuff the ballot boxes on Election Day, it is crucial to insist that democracy itself is being damaged.
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So it's hardly surprising that the Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index downgraded the United States from a "full democracy" to a "flawed democracy" in 2017, based on diminished voter engagement and confidence in the democratic process.
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The more the basic functioning of our democracy itself becomes a partisan issue, the worse it is for our democracy.
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" He added, "We see authoritarians all around us, and the answer is not authoritarian democracy, but the authority of democracy.
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The fate of social democracy should worry not only those on the left, but anyone concerned with democracy in Europe.
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Mexican support for democracy An Amlo government would reverse Mexico's active support of democracy and human rights in the region.
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In a region where democracy is stifled and religious freedom prohibited, our lawmakers support Israel because it remains a democracy.
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Special Report: Democracy 2016 This year's Athens Democracy Forum will be the fourth, and it will not be the last.
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"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary," he wrote at the time.
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He promised a radical new brand of democracy he called "protagonist democracy," in which regular people would be in charge.
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Well, democracy is happening; it's just not the kind of democracy that we hear about in Fourth of July speeches.
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I know of the great distance that separates a dictatorship masquerading as a democracy from a true, albeit flawed, democracy.
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Liberal democracy is in favor of multiculturalism, while Christian democracy gives priority to Christian culture; this is an illiberal concept.
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We are a democracy and the way a democracy is supposed to work is the will of the people matters.
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I think democracy is at risk in this country, and I think it's— Well, we're not much of a democracy.
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Democrats saved this democracy — a democracy for which so many have given their sweat and their tears and their lives.
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By the way, I should mention that when I say democracy, I'm not talking about a democracy within the show.
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When she joined the National League for Democracy, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's party, it looked like democracy taking root.
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Democracy relies on a citizenry informed and active enough to make such judgments; in a democracy, we are all critics.
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"Democracy" is Rice's attempt to hammer home the idea of democracy promotion as a key goal for American foreign policy.
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I believe their inaction is a grave threat to people's lives, to our democracy and to democracy around the world.
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" Duffey said WFP's process "included both representative democracy and direct democracy, and we were clear about this from the start.
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The organization I lead, the Democracy Initiative, works with grassroots advocates in states across the U.S. to pass democracy reforms.
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He continued: Without reason, without truth, there is no real democracy, because democracy is about true choices and rational decisions.
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A report released by the pro-democracy group Freedom House Tuesday gave Hungary the lowest "democracy score" in Central Europe.
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Unlike liberal democracy, he said, Christian democracy rejects multiculturalism and immigration while being anti-communist and standing for Christian values.
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The democracy part is a whole other issue, and I don't think the market is going to fix democracy, right?
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Ensminger and Ford were intervening in a foreign democracy under the banner of philanthropy, and gave that foreign democracy tools that Gandhi used for vast wrongdoing when she decided to suspend democracy and leap into autocratic terror.
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AMERICA, which has long defined itself as a standard-bearer of democracy for the world, has become a "flawed democracy" according to the taxonomy used in the annual Democracy Index from the Economist Intelligence Unit, our sister company.
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But Abiy is a champion of democracy at a time when, according to Freedom House, democracy has been steadily losing ground.
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The new conspiracism is not the engine of every crisis of democracy, nor does it figure in every crisis of democracy.
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Over the past two years, six pro-democracy lawmakers have been disqualified from public office and several young democracy activists jailed.
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"Democracy is consultation ... that's it, we want real democracy," he said in his speech, which was punctuated by applause and laughter.
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It's hard to argue that America's tribal democracy is not dysfunctional these days, but still the United States is a democracy.
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Rwanda may be forgoing democracy for development only to wind up with no democracy and far less development than many think.
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"It's a pilot for what democracy could be," said Jim Fishkin, the director for Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University.
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" Many Hong Kongers opposed it, denouncing it as "fake democracy," and instead started calling for "true democracy" and "real universal suffrage.
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Democracy cannot be built to fit the needs of a particular government or otherwise it would cease to be a democracy.
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He argued that the conflict of the 216th century pitted democracy against fascism and communism — a struggle democracy won, and handily.
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In the confrontation between the president and the media we see not a breakdown of democracy but proof that democracy works.
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How decades of gerrymandering have undermined American democracy How decades of gerrymandering have undermined American democracy This segment originally aired Nov.
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" He added, "I'm certainly not saying that Spain isn't a democracy, but some important guarantees of democracy have now been infringed.
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Here's a look at the night's most memorable lines: On democracy "Democracy can buckle when it gives in to fear," he said.
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TO CALL Britain's referendum on Brexit a great act of democracy is both to describe it and to debase the word "democracy".
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It turns nationalism into a form of systematic exclusion, the logic of which leads away from democracy towards managed democracy and authoritarianism.
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But during the last century, successful democracy in Europe depended upon the organizational model and political-economic vision associated with social democracy.
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Hence the belief of some analysts that elections, not liberalism, matter most: illiberal democracy, they say, is a precursor to liberal democracy.
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The worry is they'll use these methods not only to hack into pro-democracy groups, but do so to disrupt democracy itself.
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They seem to be looking for a different version of democracy, one that in reality can quickly become no democracy at all.
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It is our democracy too, and in our democracy, there is only one response that has ever truly mattered: We will vote.
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Democracy in Chains exposes the frightening intellectual roots of the radical right, as well as its ultimate ambition: to erode American democracy.
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Once again, democracy had been betrayed because ultimately democracy is a system based on how many years you have left to live.
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Democracy Luther would have choked on his beloved German beer had you told him that he would lead the world toward democracy.
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This is also the curse of democracy when democracy is practiced to keep brown and black people and women in their place.
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It may be true that "democracy dies in darkness," to quote the paper's new slogan, but democracy also dies in enforced silence.
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" The former "Daily Show" host said Trump's campaign "has animated that thought that a multi-ethnic democracy, a multicultural democracy, is impossible.
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Elliott said the ruling was "merely democracy delayed, not democracy denied" and added shareholders would get to express their will in May.
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With American and Western democracy on trial and under attack, we must vigilantly defend fundamental truths at the core of American democracy.
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There is nothing extreme about responding to the Republican Party's current efforts to restrict democracy with an ambitious effort to revitalize democracy.
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Postwar liberal democracy is simply too new of a system, scholars of democracy say, to know whether it can survive these challenges.
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The fact that we even had a referendum was a breakdown of politics, because we're a parliamentary democracy, not a plebiscitary democracy.
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Labor unions were essential to what the Progressive-Era jurist Louis Brandeis called "industrial democracy" — democracy adapted to a complex modern economy.
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"I think there is this sense that our democracy — the institutions and foundations of our democracy — are under attack," Mr. Rouda said.
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Regardless of the outcome of the elections, democracy advocates say they cannot endorse the democracy plan now, having rejected it in 2014.
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So there's the paradox of our times: it is likely that rather less liberal democracy will ultimately make liberal democracy more secure.
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Trump -- who has autocratic tendencies -- has learned how to weaponize the values of liberal democracy, like free speech, to undermine liberal democracy.
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"I truly believe that the times have found us to save our democracy, defend our democracy for the people," she told Tapper.
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First, we asked about support for democracy in the abstract: the belief that, despite its problems, democracy is the best political system.
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The idea that there is an inherent conflict between democracy and the integrity of property rights is as old as democracy itself.
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It's a forward-looking part of Hungarian democracy, one designed to maintain the country's move to democracy for the decades to come.
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I asked him why the distinction between democracy and liberalism is so crucial, and why illiberalism is a natural outgrowth of democracy.
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Asked whether social media "does more to help promote democracy and free speech or does more to hurt democracy and free speech," 51% of those surveyed said it did more hurt to democracy and 45% said it did more to help.
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When asked whether social media does more to help promote democracy and free speech or does more to hurt democracy and free speech, most Americans (55%) now say social media does more to hurt democracy and free speech than it helps.
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Turkey's dispiriting recent history once again raises the question of whether Islamist values can coexist with democracy — not just democracy as manifested in elections but liberal democracy, with its core values of equality and freedom of the press, speech and religion.
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Democracy, Mounk argues that liberal democracy — "the unique mix of individual rights and popular rule that has long characterized most governments in North America and Western Europe" — is decomposing into warped incarnations of its constituent elements: illiberal democracy and undemocratic liberalism.
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After the failure of the pro-democracy "umbrella movement" in 2014 many youngsters concluded that China would never grant Hong Kongers full democracy.
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Congo is "not willing to receive lessons in democracy, especially not of those who murdered democracy in this country and elsewhere," he said.
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Democracy had all of the theory, all of the thinking - before had never dealt with the clash between race and racism and democracy.
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Democracy Works, which aims to create "a more representative and inclusive democracy," said voter turnout had not been above 80 percent since 1888.
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And New Democracy supporters who have nothing to lose voted No. The working-class New Democracy voters did not go with their leadership.
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We do, however, know one simple fact: Putin's overarching objective is to portray Russia's "managed democracy" as superior to America's muddled, crooked democracy.
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She is currently Managing Director for Governance at Democracy Fund Voice, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to helping America build a stronger, healthier democracy.
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The country moved from dictatorship to democracy in 226, and decades of economic growth and democracy followed, with one government peacefully replacing another.
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The free press is not simply an institution that reports on our democracy, it is in fact a vital part of our democracy.
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And attacking our intelligence services with innuendo and slanders that delegitimize those who defend our democracy helps those who would destroy our democracy.
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And in authoritarian countries where "democracy" comes in quotation marks, authorities are deriving visible pleasure from describing American democracy as a chaotic sham.
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This data tells a different story about the relationship between age and support for democracy than the question about satisfaction with American democracy.
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Democracy Works, which aims to create "a more representative and inclusive democracy," said voter turnout had not been above 80 percent since 1888.
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Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler is a Senior Fellow and head of the Democracy in the Information Age Project at The Israel Democracy Institute's.
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Here Lippmann fails spectacularly, and he fails because his solution to the problems of democracy is to abandon everything that makes democracy worthwhile.
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Civics Often we take for granted that the United States is a democracy, and that democracy is a form of government worth celebrating.
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To Spataro and Kaye, bitcoin is not just an alternative financial system: it is the missing link between representative democracy and Democracy 2.0.
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Fred Wertheimer is founder and president of Democracy 21, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to strengthen our democracy and promotes government integrity.
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"A democracy that cannot rein in such a dangerous concentration of wealth and power isn&apost really a democracy at all," he writes.
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Our new panel study, Brazilian Democracy in the Balance, reveals that support for democracy and trust in the military profoundly shaped election outcomes.
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They concluded that democracy could never work as "simply the rule of public opinion," said Nadia Urbinati, a Columbia University scholar of democracy.
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"I think people have totally lost confidence in democracy, in British democracy and the way it's run," said Tommy Turner, 32, a firefighter.
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During the pro-democracy "Umbrella Movement" protests in 2014, tens of thousands of demonstrators occupied major highways for over two months demanding full democracy.
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Research recently presented by Roberto Foa and Yascha Mounk shows growing disillusionment with democracy—not just with politics or campaigns, but with democracy itself.
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The U.S. has been demoted from a full democracy to a flawed democracy for the first time, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
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No serious person could consider Israel a liberal democracy — or a democracy of any kind — if this were the way its political system worked.
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" During a panel discussion last December, Spicer said that open access for the media is "what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship.
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"There's a risk of depriving government of expertise and access to democracy," said Bassin, who is now with the nonprofit advocacy group Protect Democracy.
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"First it was a democracy crisis, with an emergency manager put in place that took away the people's democracy and their voice," he said.
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Tocqueville was certain that it was impossible to have liberty without democracy, but he worried that it was possible to have democracy without liberty.
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In Hungary, authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has shifted from defending "illiberal democracy" to proposing a new, less liberally-inclined "old-school Christian Democracy".
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There is a nascent democracy in Kyrgyzstan, there is an emerging democracy in Uzbekistan, and there is potential for some promising changes in Kazakhstan.
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Small wonder that this year has seen a boom in books with frightening titles such as "How Democracy Ends" and "The People vs. Democracy".
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In the same fashion, many political analysts at that time were predicting an end of representative democracy caused by deliberative democracy through the internet.
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Rather, its bureaucrats are too insulated from democracy, and its democracy is not functioning well enough without a common demos to make it work.
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"I'd say to them, this is a democracy and peaceful protest is part of democracy," Varadkar said earlier this month, about possible Trump protests.
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The 167-nation "Democracy Index", compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit, downgraded the United States from a "full" to a "flawed" democracy in 2016.
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That's not democracy—democracy is the one where a country is run by midwives, teachers, NGO workers, semi-professional artists, and secondhand-book dealers.
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"One of the four pillars of her campaign was going to be democracy issues," said Fred Wertheimer, president of the reform group Democracy 21.
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Regarding Mueller and the special counsel investigation, there is no doubt that Russia has launched an attack against American democracy and democracy in Europe.
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A spokesman for Suu Kyi's ruling party, the National League for Democracy, said the curbs on thangyat were "temporary" as Myanmar moves toward democracy.
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While this phase may risk the "excesses of democracy," as the Founding Fathers fretted, new technologies also represent our best hope for fixing democracy.
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But really understanding that threats to democracy really threaten our way of life is vital, as is remembering that our democracy is worth defending.
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Condoleezza Rice's new book, "Democracy: The Long Road to Freedom," provides a useful framework to understand the complicated and disruptive process that is democracy.
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The task before those who believe in democracy is to prove Adams wrong; to demonstrate, once again, that democracy is a self-righting mechanism.
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"In a democracy, if we are still in a democracy, there's only one thing to do, let the Italians have their say," he said.
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In Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has eliminated democracy in all but name, democracy may well die an official death during the crisis.
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" Lee worried the increasing difficulties facing the pro-democracy movement are "going to encourage more people to give up in the fight for democracy.
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At a time when democracy is in retreat around the world, Hong Kong reminds us that democracy is not an inevitability, but a choice.
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And if Michael Bloomberg's version of democracy wins, then democracy changes and it's going to be about which billionaire you can stomach going forward.
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It's stomach-churning, because hypocrisy and autocracy go together: lack of transparency is the enemy of democracy, and we already had a democracy suspended.
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On the surface, Hungary looks like a healthy democracy; it's only when you look closely that you realize it's not a democracy at all.
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An attention-getting paper in the Journal of Democracy last year found rising support for authoritarian alternatives to democracy among well-established democratic nations.
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When you combine that notion of pure democracy with the total monetization of that democracy by having no limits on what people can spend and no limits on what rich people or rich corporations can contribute, you have a democracy that just doesn't work.
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"Why would I exchange the democracy of the United Kingdom, flawed as it is, with the lack of democracy of the European Union?" he said.
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Democracy is stable if, culturally, the overwhelming majority of people believe that democracy is the best form of government, meaning they adhere to the values.
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The paradox of democracy is that sometimes voters' preferences in the West are for the pursuit of an objective that runs counter to democracy elsewhere.
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Pro-democracy lawmakers have been kicked out of the legislature, a pro-independence party banned, and democracy advocates jailed and barred from contesting local elections.
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Dino, a part-time teacher, says he hopes that when Hong Kong has true democracy, he can donate his artwork to a "democracy progression museum".
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Some may also respond with post-Bush, Obama-era cynicism about the perils of promoting democracy abroad and declining support for democracy among Western millennials.
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The bride, 30, manages the East Africa programs at the National Endowment for Democracy, a nonprofit organization in Washington that supports groups that promote democracy.
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H.R. 1 is a bold, once-in-a-generation democracy reform package designed to realize the promise of our democracy and repair our democratic institutions.
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Instead, I am hoping that the American people, and all others who care about democracy, will help my country through a crisis for our democracy.
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Democracy activists and some political parties say the charter will undermine the development of democracy and result in weak coalitions easily manipulated by the military.
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A few years later America's founders created a democracy structured to take private factional competition and, through checks and balances, turn it into deliberative democracy.
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Approaching difference with empathy is at the heart of democracy, so the more our own views are endorsed by algorithms, the worse off democracy is.
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A recent report from the National Endowment for Democracy, a US government institution, argues that Russia and China have attempted to weaken faith in democracy.
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Expanded voting rights are essential to building trust in democracy, holding politicians accountable, and correcting the racist exclusion that has so long plagued American democracy.
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For decades, democracy advocates have been pushing for more representative democracy in Hong Kong, a former British colony that returned to Chinese control in 1997.
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APPIAH You have to have the confidence that democracy is sturdy enough that even the critics of democracy cannot undermine it simply by raising questions.
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"Lee Ming-cheh was a democracy activist who wanted to share the values of democracy and freedom in China," the office said in a statement.
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She faulted pro-democracy lawmakers for rejecting a 2014 plan to offer limited democracy in Hong Kong, and she said the city had sufficient autonomy.
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In "Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone," the Canadian filmmaker Astra Taylor tries to develop a working definition for democracy.
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PA: I think it's our unique combination of having a parliamentary democracy with a strong monarchic element with a very strong element of direct democracy.
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In light of these historical twists and turns in U.S. democracy promotion policies, how concerned should proponents of U.S. democracy promotion be about Trump's strategy?
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His commitment to democracy aligned him with a foundational element of our democracy here in the United States, which is a free and independent press.
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Indeed, perhaps the most decisive factor in the survival of American democracy thus far is that those who held power wanted American democracy to survive.
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The most important alliance is going to be the alliance between India and the United States, the world's oldest democracy and the world's largest democracy.
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Douglas's typology leads one to much the same conclusion that Dewey reached: namely, that democracy in education requires democracy in the workplace, and vice versa.
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"We have replaced a shipwrecked liberal democracy with a 21st-century Christian democracy, which guarantees people's freedom, security," Orban, in power since 2010, told parliament.
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With the possible exception of the Civil War, American democracy has never collapsed; indeed, no democracy as rich or as established as America's ever has.
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Pro-democracy, anti-government protests began in June and have not stopped since, with protesters demanding greater democracy and an investigation into alleged police brutality.
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We are the oldest democracy in the world… And so when we see our democracy descend in this way, it is not a good sign.
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"Democracy and 'progressive democracy' are synonymous, and indistinguishable from the expansion of the state," Nick Land, the next most influential neoreactionary thinker after Moldbug, writes.
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Other thinkers suggest that perhaps democracy itself isn't dying — just the values we think of when we hear "liberal democracy" — and that is most threatening.
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While democracy promotion got a bad name in the aftermath of the 2003 war in Iraq, which the Bush administration sold in part as a democracy-building initiative, Washington nevertheless should support efforts within Iran to build the institutions and nourish the values of a well-functioning democracy — which would raise the chances that Iran would be ready to replace the regime with a democracy.
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Those parties, some of whose members have campaigned for democracy for decades, are scorned by many younger pro-democracy activists, who say they have accomplished little.
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America's authoritarian friends in the Persian Gulf see democracy as an existential threat; they have no use for more American sermons on the virtues of democracy.
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In 2017, the research group demoted the U.S. from a full democracy to a "flawed democracy," citing dwindling trust in government, elected representatives and political parties.
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Most conservatives believe in the importance of disciplining democracy through various constitutional constraints such as representative democracy, powerful revising chambers, Supreme Courts and bills of rights.
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He was also director of the nonprofit organization Cuba Democracy Advocates, which is dedicated to promoting human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Cuba.
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"This is a democracy and we have got to expand that democracy and I believe every single person does have the right to vote," Sanders said.
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Much of the funding comes from America's Near East Regional Democracy programme, which allocates about $30m a year to promoting democracy and human rights in Iran.
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"This is a democracy and we have got to expand that democracy, and I believe every single person does have the right to vote," he said.
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We then analyzed the relationship between social intolerance and attitudes toward democracy: support for army rule, a preference for a strong leader, and opposition to democracy.
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Becoming "ambassadors of democracy," Reagan and other actors delivered rousing anticommunist speeches to defend their profession, depicting entertainers as the savior of American freedom and democracy.
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So by corrupting democracy for this one big, lame-duck vote, our politicians can undermine and limit democracy for many years and even decades to come.
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Results like these do not make sense under the traditional or retrospective theories of democracy; they make perfect sense under the group identity theory of democracy.
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Congress has its own role to play in defending our democracy, but partisan politics has impeded the adoption of legislation to addresses vulnerabilities in our democracy.
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But when people who cherish the shining ideals of our democracy actively engage in the process of a participatory democracy, ultimately our government will right itself.
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" He has given his support to young pro-democracy protesters in the city, describing them as "incredibly brave" and "absolutely right to argue about greater democracy.
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"Anyone who tries to undermine our democracy, who in essence created a 21st century attack through their cyberattacks against our democracy is a foe," he said.
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" – Antonin Scalia, 2013 "The notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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Other Salafis remained very critical of democracy, viewing it as "kufr," or un-Islamic, based on the belief that democracy represents a rejection of religious values.
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Ahn Jin-geol, a leader of People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, an anticorruption watchdog, said Ms. Park's downfall spoke well for South Korea's still-young democracy.
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In fact, our goal is to not only strengthen American democracy, but to work in solidarity with supporters of democracy around the globe, including in Russia.
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In the current global wave of democracy, which started in the late 1970s, Latin America stands as the region where democracy spread and survived the most.
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Brazil's young democracy is less resilient than older, more established democracies like the US or the UK. Brazilian democracy faces one of its most crucial moments.
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The fight for democracy has become more urgent, more controversial -- but potentially less achievable, as China's economic rise gives Beijing more political power to resist democracy.
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That could happen if the pro-democracy side suffers losses in coming elections or if the government removes two more pro-democracy politicians from the Legislature.
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A rout by democracy advocates "was beyond our imagination," said Joseph Cheng, a retired political scientist at City University of Hong Kong and longtime democracy advocate.
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The European Union, built on the twin creeds of social democracy and Christian democracy, has now been forced to accommodate a third assertive ideology: nativist populism.
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"There was a gradual evisceration of democracy," she said, leaving those countries with the "trappings" of democracy, like elections and political parties, but not the substance.
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In "The People Trying to Save Democracy From Itself," Patrick Chalmers, writing in The Guardian, details six "experiments in new manifestations of democracy" around the world.
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President Trump signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on Wednesday, reaffirming U.S. support for the city's autonomy after months of pro-democracy protests.
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The Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index, which rates the quality of democracy worldwide, found in 2016 that there are only 19 "full democracies" in the world.
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Perhaps most significantly, Patriots and Pragmatists gatherings have drawn major donors like William D. Budinger, a former Democracy Alliance board member, and representatives of deep-pocketed grant-writing foundations like Pierre Omidyar's Democracy Fund and Democracy Fund Voice, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Madison Initiative.
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Let the People Vote America finally has a pro-democracy movement, David Leonhardt writes: Last week, ballot initiatives to improve the functioning of democracy fared very well.
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One reason all the talk about Trump threatening American democracy annoys me so much is because I am from a country whose democracy is actually falling apart.
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"Our legitimacy abroad rest on our democracy at home," Buttigieg said, pivoting to his campaign pitch to revamp American democracy by doing away with the electoral college.
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And this "democracy" is used as propagation to conquer other nations: to bomb the crap out of them because they want to bring them freedom and democracy.
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I never expected that Poland, which used to be a European role model in the fight for democracy, at some point could start losing this democracy itself.
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Some pro-democracy protesters have come out in support of the HAEA strike with some demonstrations beginning to take on the characteristics of the pro-democracy protests.
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If we can't get a functioning democracy from our democracy, at least for now, we may still able to get a taste of it from our employers.
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Others, however, lacking those commitments, will decide to keep faith with democracy only if there are political costs to acting against democracy and the rule of law.
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When you say "an illusion of democracy," what you mean is that the rights that are promised by a democracy are not actually extended to us, right?
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America and Western democracy are under sustained attack from a Russian dictator that seeks to dominate and discredit democracy through infowar, cyberwar and Cold War-style espionage.
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Now, we're asking you to sign The Pledge to Fix Democracy: The Pledge to #fixdemocracy I pledge allegiance to a democracy of, by, and for the people.
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The pro-democracy camp has become ever more divided between those who simply want full democracy and people described as "localists"—some of whom want outright independence.
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Their solution was "free" science in a liberal democracy, but the equation of liberal democracy with free scientific inquiry has not turned out to be so simple.
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Democracy Spring is partnering up with Democracy Awakening, another coalition of over 6900 organizations, to hold the non-violent sit-in at Capitol Hill on April 2628.
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Frances Z. Brown is a fellow with the Carnegie Endowment's Democracy and Rule of Law Program and a former director for democracy at the National Security Council.
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So don't vote because it makes democracy work; vote because you want to live in a democracy, and if you don't vote, it won't be one anymore.
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In the end, it was a mistake to promote democracy because some had too little understanding of the requirements of a civil society for democracy to work.
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And liberal democracy sides with adaptable family models, while Christian democracy rests on the foundations of the Christian family model; once more, this is an illiberal concept.
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"Even though global democracy has experienced a general trend of backsliding in the past few years, Taiwan's democracy has persisted and continues to thrive," Ms. Chen said.
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There was no guarantee that democracy would ensue — and, in fact, democracy led to an electoral victory by the Muslim Brotherhood, which led to a military coup.
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"If a vibrant democracy that champions universal values and follows international rules were destroyed by China, it would be a huge setback for global democracy," she said.
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When her party, the National League for Democracy, won elections in 2015 many hoped it would lead Myanmar toward greater democracy after 60 years of military rule.
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This included $22019 million in funding for the World Meteorological Organization and $218 million for promoting democracy development in Europe — a continent already well versed in democracy.
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Aimee Allison is president of Democracy in Color, an organization focused on race, politics and the new American majority, and host of the Democracy in Color podcast.
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Miles Rapoport, senior practice fellow in American Democracy at the Harvard Kennedy School, called the partnership an excellent development for the field of democracy protection and reform.
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As I explain in my new book, Religion and Brazilian Democracy, Brazilian evangelicals began engaging in electoral politics during the country's transition to democracy in the 1980s.
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Socialists believe that liberals are entranced by "bourgeois democracy," blind to the ways private ownership of the means of production makes reform inadequate and meaningful democracy impossible.
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Elizabeth Warren tweeted that political violence "has no place in our democracy": Violence against private citizens, public officials and media organizations has no place in our democracy.
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In it, he warns that democracy here is under serious threat, in the way that German democracy was prior to Hitler's rise — and really could topple altogether.
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It is more likely that democracy ends with a whimper, when the case for supporting it — the case, that is, for everyday democracy — is no longer compelling.
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In passing the ballot question with 2628 percent of the vote, New Yorkers follow in the steps of democracy reforms across the nation; 28503 pro-democracy measures passed in 22019, and New Yorkers joined citizens in San Francisco, Maine, Syracuse and Kansas in passing democracy reforms in November.
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"That kind of partisan fight to the death is what killed democracy in Spain in the 1930s, it's what killed democracy in Brazil in the 1960s, it's what killed democracy in Chile with Allende in the early 1970s," Mr. Levitsky said, referring to that country's former president, Salvador Allende.
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Yes. But anytime Americans exercise their right of free assembly, that indicates a strong democracy—even though, in this case, it also shows that democracy is under attack.
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Duterte 'waging a war on democracy' Former Philippine President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, son of the late pro-democracy icon Corazon Aquino, was among those attending Saturday's event.
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Our nation has long understood that we are safest when we fiercely protect our democracy while also advancing the cause of democracy and universal values around the world.
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Whereby elections in some pretense of democracy are maintained, the form of it, but those in power seek to undermine every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning.
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Sukarno, the country's first president, having overseen an unstable parliamentary democracy in the 1950s, relied on the army to back a regime of "guided democracy" from 20043 onwards.
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We are living through a massive shift from representative democracy to something called viral direct democracy, now cascading over us in a garbage-laden tsunami of raw data.
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And it makes you worry whether democracy can survive, or I believe you say the phrase you use in your book is: Democracy will become a puppet show.
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Now the government insists that democracy has prevailed: July 15, the day of the attempted coup, was declared a "Democracy Holiday," and it's still being celebrated with rallies.
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" In a clear reference to Hungary and to Poland, Mr. Macron said: "In the face of authoritarianism, the response is not authoritarian democracy but the authority of democracy.
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James Prince is a leading expert on Arab civil society and the President of the Democracy Council, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting democracy and combating extremism.
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Roger Eatwell, a professor at the University of Bath, in England, calls it "illiberal democracy," a form of government that keeps the trappings of democracy without the reality.
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After Egypt began experimenting with representative democracy in 2012, following decades of authoritarian rule and a popular revolution sparked by the Arab Spring, public support for democracy fell.
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"Donald Trump is not the heart attack of democracy, he is the gum disease of democracy," The Atlantic's David Frum said during a Brookings Institution forum in February.
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Because if the American people start to lose confidence in our rule of law or our democracy or our election process, then you don't have a democracy anymore.
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But China's refusal to allow unfettered democracy in next year's election for the city's leader triggered pro-democracy protests in 2014, and spurred worries about the city's future.
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But because we need Turkey's air bases and cooperation to foster a modicum of democracy in Iraq tomorrow, we are silent on Erdogan destroying democracy in Turkey today.
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Whereby elections and some pretense of democracy are maintained — the form of it — but those in power seek to undermine every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning.
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"On the continent, largely because of its more turbulent history, this idea that enemies of democracy can be excluded from democracy is taken much more seriously," explained Heinze.
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It shows what could happen if we are not vigilant with our democracy, if we forget the fundamental fact that democracy is not something that just makes itself.
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The problem is that democracy doesn't have a great reputation in Mexico, because democracy won't put food on the table, nor will it shield you from a bullet.
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When a Saudi official wanted to brush away the question of democracy, in the past, he would always raise the question of whether democracy is compatible with Islam.
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"Our whole democracy is based on representation," Ms. Maloney said, "and if there is a conscious effort to undercount representation, that is an attack fundamentally on our democracy."
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And it has failed to recognize the range of plainly legitimate conceptions of democracy that Americans hold, instead privileging one view, democracy-by-financial-contributions, above all others.
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Democracy in the United States For U.S. history and civics classes, students can analyze whether American democracy is facing a crisis, or whether it is working as intended.
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His very wager is that believers in liberal democracy — in an informed electorate, in representative democracy and in the rule of law — aren't as strong as they think.
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Democracy requires an informed and involved citizenry, and if the people in the country cannot even agree on what is actually happening, then how can our democracy survive?
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This is about educating for the democracy we want — not the one we have — and what we want is a democracy in which a lot of people participate.
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For the poet, democracy wasn't just a way of passing laws or a manner of organizing a government; democracy was a method of transcendence in its own right.
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Hong Kong Pro-democracy groups in Hong Kong are trying to keep the pressure on the city's government following the success of pro-democracy candidates in recent elections.
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"The anger that is building up will fuel future protests against the government and for democracy," said Lee Cheuk-yan, a labour activist and former pro-democracy politician.
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If we're going to solve the crises that are barreling down on us, we need democracy, and our democracy needs to start with an open and inclusive debate.
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For almost a century, the Soviet Union and now Russia have been telling the world that democracy is a charade, and America's democracy in particular is an illusion.
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To counter this, Power For Democracy, an umbrella group for pro-democracy parties, has issued a list of 397 candidates it endorses, one in all but 55 constituencies.
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The pro-democracy advocate argued their arrests were an attempt to put a chilling effect on the local elections, where pro-democracy lawmakers are expected to win big.
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Motivated by the same recognition of the strategic value of democracy, countries ranging from the United Kingdom to South Korea have become generous supporters of the democracy cause.
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The Economic Intelligence Unit downgraded America from a "full democracy" to a "flawed democracy," citing Americans' drop in confidence in governmental institutions and a rise in U.S. inequality.
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Liberal democracy seems to be one of the many exits on which the democratic experiment could end, but there are others, like illiberal democracy, that are equally likely.
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In Rose's case, that would be Chinese Democracy, a Guns N' Roses album so delayed it became a running joke ("We'll have democracy in China before we have Chinese Democracy," for example), and for D'Angelo, it was the follow-up to 2000's Voodoo, which was eventually released in Dec.
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In the first act, Mason explains in a monologue why he has come to appreciate the game that he's been introduced to by his new client, Darren: And baseball is better than Democracy — or at least than Democracy as it's practiced in this country — because unlike Democracy, baseball acknowledges loss.
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It's natural to believe that if many people in a society don't hold liberal views, or don't strongly support democracy, that that would lead to the erosion of democracy.
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"That's resonating with people...it just shows that democracy and liberal values in the Ph are not fully internalized; the PH is still a fledgling democracy," Heydarain summed up.
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DEMOCRACY DEFICIT Hong Kong's lack of full democracy was behind the recent unrest, said Jimmy Sham of the Civil Human Rights Front, which organised protests against the extradition bill.
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My own, relatively optimistic view, is that the Brexit experience has given everyone who cares about democracy a crash-course on the limitations of both representative and direct democracy.
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In 2003, confronted by its failures, the junta unveiled what it called a seven-step "road map to discipline-flourishing democracy"—that is, democracy, but only on its terms.
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Such action forced the military to allow a limited democracy, and now it's time to force them to give full democracy, freedom and citizenship to all of Burma's residents.
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Americans see the media as essential to democracy, according to a Gallup survey earlier this year, but only 28 percent of respondents see the media as serving democracy well.
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Does he agree with widespread reports citing intelligence sources that Russia is acting to destabilize democracy in Europe in the same ways Russia acts to undermine democracy in America?
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It is true that populist parties, some more traditionally nationalistic, others perhaps more techno-populist, hearkening to "direct democracy" rather than representative democracy, did well in the European elections.
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What's more, the aggressive Russian cyberattacks on American democracy haven't stopped and are the same techniques Russia employs to attack democracy and to stir up political unrest throughout Europe.
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In 1983, with strong bipartisan support, Congress created the National Endowment for Democracy to promote democracy around the globe and it has been funded by Congress since that time.
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So our complaint is not so much about democracy as it is about our misleading understanding of democracy and the bad implications it has for how we proceed democratically.
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And yet one-party democracy doesn't seem like the answer either, since most democratic theory assumes that for there to be democracy, voters must have meaningful choices over alternatives.
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And not only have democracy and capitalism fallen into disarray worldwide, the uncritical idealization of democracy and capitalism after 1989 is at least partly responsible for our current woes.
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To recognize that democracy is not automatically equal, that women and black Americans had to fight and suffer and die to exercise the most basic right in a democracy.
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" Insisting that America was a republic rather than a direct democracy, he criticized Jefferson as a proto-Trumpian demagogue: "His great power … is chiefly acquired by professions of democracy.
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In a world where every person with a smartphone is a citizen journalist, a threat to democracy is a threat to democracy, no matter the post's country of origin.
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Javier Corrales, a professor of political science at Amherst College, is the author, most recently, of "Fixing Democracy: Why Constitutional Change Often Fails to Enhance Democracy in Latin America."
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This dream of democracy — that no foreign power should have one speck of influence over who should lead our democracy — is fundamental to the sacred legacy of George Washington.
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"It's a challenge for Indonesia's democracy," said Bonar Tigor Naipospos, vice chairman of the executive board of the Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace, a research institute in Jakarta.
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She concludes that we live in two democracies: a political democracy, in which we function as citizens, and a "democracy of everyday life," in which we function as neighbors.
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After Hong Kong's pro-democracy candidates scored a landslide win in local elections, Chinese state media called the results "skewed" and a "setback" for the city's drive for democracy.
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Tsai said it was totally hypocritical of an autocratic China that lacks democracy, human rights or freedom of speech to use the language of democracy to criticize the bill.
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Wendy Fields is the Executive Director of the Democracy Initiative, a coalition of 69 partner organizations from labor, civil rights, environmental, faith, women's rights, democracy reform, and other sectors.
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Each video features an interviewee plainly describing some non-capitalist system of organization, such as anarchist consensual democracy, inclusive democracy, caring labor, or workers' collectives during the Spanish Revolution.
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"Our country — our democracy — is counting on you."
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Democracy is — and always will be — a fight.
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He also signaled support for democracy promotion, something at odds with Trump's pronouncements where he has put value on stability and counter-terrorism as opposed to democracy and human rights.
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But both of these are important values for democracy, and when the regulatory infrastructure swings too hard toward one end of this trade-off, democracy suffers because parties are hampered.
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Across the country, we're already seeing successful experiments with a more citizen-inclusive democracy, with localities and cities rising as engines of American re-innovation and laboratories of participatory democracy.
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Nationalism is really another word for democracy — the concept of democracy makes no sense except as an algorithm for determining the General Will of the People, that is, the Nation.
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By applying computational thinking to democracy, an extreme individualisation and instant participation, we forget democracy is not simply the result of an election or the mathematical sum of individual votes.
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Just 240% of Americans said they have faith in democracy, and 20103% say they have lost faith in democracy, according to a new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll conducted in late October.
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"The [Clinton] campaign pays the DNC, DNC pays Democracy Partners, Democracy Partners pays the Foval Group, The Foval Group goes and executes the s**t," Foval tells the undercover reporter.
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In Burma, "we are still marching toward the doors of democracy, but we are not a democracy yet," the chief minister of the Mandalay Region, Zaw Myint Maung, told me.
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"With our new immersive theater project, we want to inspire people to act and to protect their values, to protect democracy, because democracy without deeds is just words," Tolokonnikova said.
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While Russian leaders consciously work to hollow out the idea of democracy in their own country, they also seek to discredit democracy abroad — including, this year, in the United States.
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If our democracy cannot deny the nation's highest office to someone so deeply bigoted, uninformed and untrustworthy as Donald Trump, could we be looking at the twilight of democracy itself?
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"This is one of the few places and one of the last places on earth where you can watch a democracy, and a peaceful democracy, grow from scratch," he said.
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The emergence of Trump is not the end of democracy; it is affirmation that, in fact, democracy in America — if not the constitutional rule of law — is alive and well.
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"I had seen how important representation and democracy — these big concepts — really are, and how people have fought and bled to bring things like democracy to South Korea," she said.
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He is dedicating much of his life to finding ways to save our democracy and has recently published a book entitled Senator Pressler: An Independent Mission to Save Our Democracy.
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"I'd say to them, this is a democracy and peaceful protest is part of democracy," Varadkar said when asked what he would say to citizens planning protests for Trump's visit.
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Yet his prominence as a public intellectual comes from a career-long rebellion against the pieties of liberal democracy, which, now that liberal democracy is in crisis worldwide, seems prophetic.
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"The Last Best Hope of Earth" (emphasis on last) clearly referred to liberal democracy, as Marc Plattner, co-editor of the Journal of Democracy, made explicit in his opening commentary.
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Americans and Canadians, the French resistance and the British RAF, and believers in democracy from across the European continent waged and won the greatest battle in the history of democracy.
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It is not by accident that the National Endowment for Democracy, a symbol of America's commitment to democracy worldwide, has no mandate to work on problems within the United States.
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Just as people spoke about the triumph of democracy in the '90s, now you are hearing people talk about end of democracy and the triumph of tribalism and the strongman.
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Gigi Chow, an officer with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University's student union, said rallying for democracy in China would do little to advance the cause of democracy in Hong Kong.
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This could worsen one of the gravest problems facing British democracy, and Western democracy more broadly: plummeting faith in the political system, which has fractured political parties and paralyzed governments.
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If you haven't read Lara Putnam's and Theda Skocpol's long piece — "Middle America reboots democracy" — in the journal Democracy about the movement, I recommend making time before the year ends.
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In response, Tsai said it was hypocritical of an autocratic China that lacks democracy, human rights or freedom of speech to use the language of democracy to criticize the bill.
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A recent book by the political scientists Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro, "Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy From Itself," found that some reforms worsen the quality and responsiveness of democracy.
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And Protect Democracy and the Protect Democracy Project — founded by Mr. Bassin — have received as much as $500,000 from those grant-writing foundations, according to financial information on their websites.
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On the contrary, strengthening Germany's flaccid democracy comes at the right time for a country whose task will increasingly be to safeguard and enhance lively democracy elsewhere in the world.
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Nkurunziza and Ndayishimiye are close allies who started out in the CNDD-FDD (Council for the Defence of Democracy-Force for the Defence of Democracy) as rebels in the 1990s.
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The network is tracked by four researchers working with the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a project of the German Marshall Fund that seeks to expose efforts to undermine Western democracy.
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Such was the level of popular disgust with the country's hollowed-out democracy that Chávez was able to present himself not as a threat to democracy, but as its savior.
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Just as political democracy ensures that our government is of, by and for the people, economic democracy ensures that our nation&aposs businesses work in the best interest of everyone.
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In her latest book, titled "Democracy," Condoleezza Rice argues that this political format, democracy, is likely to prevail worldwide due to its inherent benefits to political entities like nation states.
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Obama outlines three threats to democracy in his final speech as president Obama outlines three threats to democracy in his final speech as president President Barack Obama gave a farewell speech Monday night urging Americans to take steps to protect democracy, despite increasing political division ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Trump.
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But here's the real issue – Whereas Democrats believe in "direct democracy" over "representative democracy" of the sort our Founders gave us, Republicans believe just the opposite: representative democracy — that is, electing electors and delegates to represent us — is a vital check against unwise outcomes that might be chosen by an overly emotional electorate.
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That's a pretty good tech-and-democracy story, but it's not really our kind of tech-and-democracy story, and so here we are with a newsletter about our kind of tech-and-democracy stories on a day when you could be forgiven for only wanting to read about the whistleblower's kind.
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Astra Taylor is a co-founder of the Debt Collective, the author of Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone, and the director of What Is Democracy?
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Democratization, in other words, has undermined democracy: It is not without irony that the most recent presidential election produced a result that so violated a great many substantive ideas about democracy.
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The most important reason the sudden collapse of democracy is rare — and a key reason it is unlikely in the US — is that a sudden derogation of democracy simply isn't necessary.
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Titled The Democracy Handbook, the satirical digital series and corresponding television special will follow Youssef as he travels America — from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. — to learn the lessons of democracy.
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" Maggie Hassan (NH): "If we are not committed to a health care system for which every American — citizens in a democracy — has access, then we are not a democracy at all.
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America prides itself on being a democracy, but purging of voter rolls, rolling back of voting rights, and other GOP-led efforts are making it harder to participate in that democracy.
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In our republic — and it is worth remembering that we are a republic and a representative democracy, not a direct democracy — we come together, at regular intervals, to elect new leadership.
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This November, the voters of California on Prop-59 and Washington on I-735 also have the chance to speak up for democracy and for a democracy of We the People.
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"Political scientists think of parties as the fundamental building blocks of democracy, and people think of them as the impediment to democracy," says Hans Noel, a political scientist at Georgetown University.
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For India, the world's largest democracy, and the U.S. as the world's first democracy, allying with each other in the fight against radical Islamic terrorism as the common enemy seems natural.
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Just as people spoke about the triumph of democracy in the 90s, now you are hearing people talk about end of democracy and the triumph of tribalism and the strong man.
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As the directors of three institutions that are committed to strengthening democracy at home and around the world, we believe the nation is at an inflection point in our own democracy.
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The document made the argument shared by centrist Democrats and Republicans, that Russian President Vladimir Putin's government tried to subvert American democracy: A democracy is only as resilient as its people.
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The questions Costa asks at the end of The Edge of Democracy, about whether it's possible for a country on the brink to return to peace and democracy, are difficult ones.
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"Election Day, the exercise of that democracy, the high holiday of that democracy, of course is going to present a target for them, and of course we're going to be ready."
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It's also strange that the same people who insist that Israel help create a Palestinian state in order to remain a democracy seem so indifferent to the views of that democracy.
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If the Republican Party can't maintain power in the democracy we have, it will destroy that democracy so that its power can be entrenched by limiting the impact of the vote.
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Cengiz has teamed up with Democracy in the Arab World Now (DAWN), a group Khashoggi founded, to promote democracy and to push international leaders to seek justice over the 2018 slaying.
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"What we see emerging is a notion of democracy that is being steadily stripped of its popular component — democracy without a demos," Peter Mair, an Irish political scientist, wrote in 2006.
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Fear of personal attacks, public backlash, or enforcement failures should not color judicial decision making… Separation of powers is not a threat to our democracy: it is the essence of democracy.
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Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong, 21, was sentenced to a second jail term of three months on Wednesday for his role in the 2014 pro-democracy "Umbrella Movement" street occupations.
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"With the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, we reaffirm America's commitment to democracy and human rights and the rule of law in the face of Beijing's crackdown," Pelosi said.
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"Big Tech is fundamentally more dangerous because it's destroying our democracy — and it's much harder to put together a democracy than it is to fix a health care system," Stoller said.
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The bill, titled the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, is a test of Mr. Trump's commitment to the United States' historical mission of promoting human rights and democracy abroad.
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From a black perspective, the crucible of democracy — the vote — meant nothing without the backing of federal troops against others who call themselves American but do not truly believe in democracy.
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Calling the move a "flagrant breach of democracy," Peru, led by centrist President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, immediately called back its ambassador and won praise from many democracy activists in the region.
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"Despite all democratic rhetoric, liberal democracy is a complex compromise of popular democracy and liberal elitism, which is therefore only partly democratic," Mr. Mudde wrote in an academic journal in 2004.
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It would be good for business — and for democracy.
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Democracy is alive and well — in Hollywood, at least.
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That's the promise of American democracy -- now and forever.
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" In 2012 he called it a "disaster for democracy.
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We share the values -- democracy, rule of law, opportunity.
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" Tocqueville argued that it was necessary to "educate democracy.
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It was never about democracy -- how could it be?
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He is denigrating — he is talking down our democracy.
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" To the Editor: Re "Is Our Democracy in Danger?
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Democracy in Black, by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. (Crown) .
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" "Democracy is a process and it really takes time.
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" Also note that "the people" are equated to "democracy.
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Just 240% of Americans said they have faith in the country's democracy, and 20103% say they have lost faith in democracy, according to a new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll conducted in late October.
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Strongman politics are ascendant suddenly, whereby elections and some pretense of democracy are maintained, the form of it, but those in seek to undermine every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning.
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As you rightly surmise ("Islam and democracy", August 26th), there appear to be varied and shifting positions among Islamists and Muslims on the question of democracy as well as broader Western principles.
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But our democracy is a beautiful way of protecting against violence, and ensuring that people's voices are really what determines who has power in our democracy, and so I believe in that.
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Querol believes this passion will allow all sections of society to more fully enjoy the "fruits of democracy," and although the country is polarized, he believes democracy in the Philippines is thriving.
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"Once they took over the House, the first item of business on the agenda was the ethics and lobbying reforms," says Fred Wertheimer, founder and president of pro-democracy nonprofit Democracy 22007.
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Correction (February 1st 2018): South Korea's overall score of 7.996 puts it in the "flawed democracy" category, but it was originally coloured on the map and chart above as a "full democracy".
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Torra, the Catalonia regional president, has described the trial as an "attack on democracy," while his predecessor in self-imposed exile, Carles Puigdemont has called it a "stress test" for Spanish democracy.
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The Economist's Democracy Index finds that the gradual erosion of democracy around the world continued last year, with 89 of 167 countries in the rankings considered less democratic thank the year prior.
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"The people have voted in favor of democracy, they have chosen democracy," said opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, whose secularist CHP also held its Aegean coastal stronghold of Izmir, Turkey's third largest city.
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Omidyar sits on the board of the Democracy Fund Voice, which gave $1.6 million in 2018 to support Republicans for the Rule of Law and Defending Democracy Together, which started the project.
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The problem is not that American democracy was hacked, but that it is hackable—that there was enough fragility in American democracy for a few crude memes to have an outsized influence.
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At the ballot box, voters will weigh in on the kind of country they want to live in: a democracy for the wealthy and privileged, or a democracy for all of us.
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Build the human infrastructure of our country with education and research and health care and build our democracy, strengthen our democracy, which is being weakened by the challenges that are placed there.
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Frances Z. Brown is a fellow with the Carnegie Endowment's Democracy, Conflict and Governance program and a former director for democracy at the National Security Council under the Obama and Trump administrations.
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The International Republican Institute has been working to promote democracy since the 1980s and receives funding through the US State Department, US Agency for International Development and the National Endowment for Democracy.
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It has pitted democracy and human rights officials, who want more punitive measures, against Asia experts at the State Department, who worry that sanctioning Myanmar's government could jeopardize its transition to democracy.
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I like to say, in the last two years, we are going back to the fundamentals of democracy and we're taking the democracy for a test ride in the United States generally.
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Having spent years researching the reasons for the tragic collapse of democracy in 1930s Europe, Linz proposed a "litmus test," a list of actions by politicians that can put democracy at risk.
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The Court's ruling in Rucho reveals that there's a threat to American democracy more subtle and yet greater than the Trump presidency: the Republican Party's drift toward being institutionally hostile to democracy.
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The Choices Program | Teaching With the News Civitas International | We the People and Project Citizen iCivics Teaching Tolerance and Rock the Vote | Democracy Class Global Oneness Project | Repairing the Fabric of Democracy
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But a democracy in which the public ceases to have confidence that its elected leader is acting in the interest of his own country and not another is no longer a democracy.
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"The platforms are largely lawless and will do anything that boosts their bottom line — democracy is a second concern at best," said Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy.
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Though political theorists of democracy routinely speak of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence or Hamilton and Madison's Federalist Papers, Whitman's poetry of a half-century later explicates the metaphysical underpinnings of transcendent democracy.
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As Latin American countries changed from authoritarian and military rule to democracy, their new leaders and our government understood that creating fair, transparent judicial systems would be essential for sustaining true democracy.
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A country that has long prided itself as "the only democracy in the Middle East" seems to be doing its damndest to give up its claim to being a democracy at all.
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The work of ensuring our democracy represents actual America -- of ensuring that people regain faith in democracy as we know it -- is largely being done by groups outside of the party structure.
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We understand that democracy is about both substance and process, that civil rights and liberties are not negotiable, that respecting outcomes is a necessary but not sufficient condition for democracy to survive.
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All this — very simple ideas that socially engaged aesthetics could so thoroughly improve upon — is the meaning of going high, when democracy goes so low as to no longer be, aesthetically, democracy.
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"The people have voted in favour of democracy, they have chosen democracy," said opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, whose secularist CHP also held its Aegean coastal stronghold of Izmir, Turkey's third largest city.
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"Journalists with Project Veritas Action Fund ('PVA') have uncovered a criminal conspiracy, where, in the words of Scott Foval, 'The way that works is: The [Hillary for America] campaign pays DNC, DNC pays Democracy Partners, Democracy Partners, Democracy Partners pays The Foval Group, The Foval Group goes and executes ... on the ground," says the complaint, filed Tuesday.
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As the current occupant of the Oval Office refuses to unequivocally condemn the attack against our democracy by a successor to Soviet dictators, and falsely accuses whose who lead investigations of that crime of attacking our democracy, Bush in his speech warned against foreign aggression — including cyberattacks, disinformation and financial influence — that attacks our democracy and subverts our elections.
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Or, as Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk write in the July 2016 issue of the Journal of Democracy: Even as democracy has come to be the only form of government widely viewed as legitimate, it has lost the trust of many citizens who no longer believe that democracy can deliver on their most pressing needs and preferences.
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"I think it reinforces the view that perhaps Western-style democracy has not worked as well as it could in the past for many economies, and a different form of democracy, let's call it 'Asian democracy,' seems to be working better in many parts of the world," he said at the sidelines of the Credit Suisse Asian Investment Conference.
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Watching our democracy function (or, more accurately, malfunction) over the past few years, I have come to the conclusion that there is a slow-moving crisis developing for our democracy — and our economy.
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Every year, the firm's Democracy Index provides a snapshot of global democracy by scoring countries on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.
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A prominent lawyer and adviser to the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party, he had just returned from Indonesia, where he had been part of a delegation studying democracy and conflict resolution.
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In the world's largest democracy, The Newshour provides the potent illusion of democracy: The people want their often corrupt rulers to be held to account, they want to see them being shouted at.
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Disdainful of conventional democracy, its leaders believe the internet offers a chance to return to an Athenian-style, direct democracy in which every major political issue would be submitted to an online referendum.
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According to a recent poll by the Democracy Project, an initiative of Freedom House, the Bush Institute, and the Penn Biden Center, 68 percent of Americans believe that our democracy is getting weaker.
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Neoconservative intellectuals and policy wonks pushed for the centrality of democracy promotion in books like Gregory Fossedal's The Democratic Imperative: Exporting the American Revolution (1989) and Muravchik's Exporting Democracy: Fulfilling America's Destiny (1991).
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She writes, "A well-functioning democracy calls for a confrontation of democratic political positions," and says a political culture that seeks to tamp down those confrontations causes people to reject liberal democracy altogether.
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Pro-democracy campaigners have pointed out that in comparison to Leung's sentence, seven police officers found guilty of beating a protestor during the pro-democracy protests in 2014 received two years in jail.
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Strongman politics are ascendant suddenly, whereby elections and some pretense of democracy are maintained — the form of it — but those in power seek to undermine every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning.
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During the postwar decades, social democracy promoted solidarity and a sense of shared national purpose so as to avoid the fractures that undermined European democracy during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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But while we're pursuing all these forms of modernity, the Saudi leaders are still not interested in democracy, They aren't advancing the old, lame excuse that democracy is not compatible with Islam, however.
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"We think American democracy is facing an existential threat and there is a potential limited window of opportunity to implement some actual reforms to make democracy function," Ezra Levin, Indivisible co-founder, said.
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I distrust the older generation of pro-democracy politicians — those champagne Socialists who use fancy words to get votes, but whose actions over the years haven't help Hong Kong make progress toward democracy.
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We now have the attacks on democracy, on an independent judiciary, the attacks on a free press, but the part that gives me so much hope is how much democracy itself is reinventing.
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Although it is undeniably true that Indian democracy is currently facing enormous challenges, people living on the subcontinent have long espoused tolerance and religious pluralism; furthermore, India is still an experiment in democracy.
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It is easier to believe that democracy is under siege than to acknowledge that democracy put Mr. Trump in power — and only more economic fairness and solidarity can keep populists like him out.
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But I think that ultimately we're going to have, this is back to the Democracy Agenda, we're going to have to have a government, a democracy that actually produces democratic results and outcomes.
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Mr. Farage leads another Euroskeptic bloc in Parliament, Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy, and that bloc in turn shares many members with a party called the Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe.
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Longest internet shutdown in a democracy The ongoing internet blackout in Indian-controlled Kashmir is now the longest ever in a democracy, according to Access Now, an advocacy group that tracks internet freedom.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, sending a strong message to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, after months of pro-democracy protests in the semi-autonomous region.
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Foreign policymakers largely assumed that all good things would go together—democracy, markets, and human rights—and so they thought opening China to trade would inexorably lead to it becoming a liberal democracy.
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The figure below shows that support for democracy was somewhat lower among Bolsonaro's voters — 72 percent of whom said that democracy was the best political system — than among those voting for other candidates.
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They pose a risk to how we perceive major institutions, and even how we think about democracy itself, and the actions we're willing (or not so willing) to take to make democracy better.
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He is "getting very high marks," Trump said, even as human rights and democracy monitoring organizations raised the alarm about his attack on free speech and democracy, and Erdogan becomes effectively a dictator.
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The group Protect Democracy filed the lawsuit for the plaintiffs.
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Although many early liberals feared mob rule, they embraced democracy.
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Democracy requires objective information for voters to make informed judgments.
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Why it matters: It's a big moment for global democracy.
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What kind of democracy are we going to create together?
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This gargantuan shrine to democracy has never felt so surreal.
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Who tortures dissenters now or launches wars or corrodes democracy?
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There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard.
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Mauritius, a small island nation, is Africa's only full democracy.
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Democracy can help him build a new base of legitimacy.
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He says the new law is "really damaging to democracy".
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"Democracy dies in a trumpy Bear ad," wrote one user.
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Our democracy is too important to allow that to happen.
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Voting is only one important piece of a functioning democracy.
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In a democracy, that right belongs to be the people.
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But I'm not here to describe the death of democracy.
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Big money eats away at the heart of our democracy.
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When it comes to democracy, the kids aren't all right.
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Blue vs yellow Hong Kong has never had full democracy.
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I think as well that AI could totally jeopardize democracy.
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"Elections are the bedrock of our nation's democracy," Cummings wrote.
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Democracy doesn't just happen on Election Day at the polls.
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That would hardly be a magic fix for India's democracy.■
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It's now being employed at the pinnacle of American democracy.
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It is based on Lewis' book The Fifth Risk:Undoing Democracy.
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A free press is a critical pillar in our democracy.
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Still, Carter is optimistic about the future of American democracy.
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His party is trailing conservative New Democracy in opinion polls.
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This president is a clear and present threat to democracy.
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"Politics without guardrails killed Chilean democracy," Levitsky and Ziblatt write.
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Is he really trying to be noble and preserve democracy?
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PSOTU says that democracy is a conversation, not a monologue.
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Instead, we allow states to function as laboratories of democracy.
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We need their restraint in order to keep our democracy.
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Parliament's leaders say they are the heart of European democracy.
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On the democracy level, right now, it seems only bad.
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All the while very real scandals are dismantling American democracy.
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It's one of those signs of a healthy, functioning democracy.
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Compromise and negotiation are the lifeblood of a functioning democracy.
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Do you like democracy, or do you want a demagogue?
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Corruption is like gangrene that poisons democracy, business and society.
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Widespread civilian gun ownership ensures the integrity of our democracy.
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The world's only Jewish democracy would be in mortal peril.
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Our country was created as a great experiment in democracy.
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That's partly why progressives want America to champion democracy again.
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Democracy was quickly suffocated in a year of deepening chaos.
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"But to have all this chaos, it's just not democracy."
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The Economist: Democracy is only a means to an end.
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"The throughline motivator is: This is not democracy," Vilardi said.
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Democracy only works when we all can and do participate.
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This is an embarrassment to our Country and to Democracy.
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"We want to make democracy more flexible," says Mr Nijman.
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But in a democracy, leaders have to make hard choices.
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That is not politics ... It's the entire ... It's democracy. Right.
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If you believe in democracy, you benefit from internet openness.
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Democracy is in retreat in Turkey, the Philippines and elsewhere.
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The wounded state of American democracy is also more pressing.
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They promised to give Hong Kong people freedom and democracy.
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By contrast, the United States represented democracy at its finest.
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He was not blind to the faults of American democracy.
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The campaign to throttle democracy was orchestrated by Mr Mnangagwa.
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And we have to always be cautious about democracy — always.
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Because I know that democracy is always the right way.
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We literally write about social networks and democracy every day.
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An automated democracy could replace both politicians and ballot boxes.
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Why did so many internet users turn against liberal democracy?
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Business is good, commerce is good, freedom, democracy is good.
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"Democracy has many faces," said the government spokesman, Zoltan Kovacs.
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Iran does not have anything close to a real democracy.
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We have to defend our democracy, period, end of story.
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In fact, Washington said that democracy requires a virtuous people.
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The second reason is that China is not a democracy.
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SHEIKH HASINA WAJED has inflicted many injuries on Bangladesh's democracy.
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Democracy had failed dismally in Africa during the cold war.
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You can save democracy with your vote on November 8th.
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What do you do when democracy leads ineluctably to chaos?
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"I think he's a threat to our democracy," he says.
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Malignancy abounds, and not all degradations of democracy go together.
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Or are you advocating for something like Scandinavian social democracy?
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Activists are renewing demands for greater democracy in the territory.
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A LONG dictatorship ended in a negotiated transition to democracy.
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Fewer listed firms also undermines the notion of shareholder democracy.
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It's one of the benefits of living in a democracy.
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That undermines the bedrock trust required for democracy to function.
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That, they hope, would eventually lead to a secular democracy.
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