The first is the centrality of liberal democracy to contemporary political philosophy. |
|
Second is the fact that liberal democracy could not flourish without modern science and technology. |
|
The idea that Strauss was a great defender of liberal democracy is laughable. |
|
His concern that members will lose faith in liberal democracy is affected and false. |
|
The Soviet Union communized the region after World War II, and it has adopted liberal democracy in the last decade, at least in principle. |
|
They maintained the case had not been made for the court, which conflicted with the protection of human rights and a liberal democracy. |
|
All that liberal democracy requires is a rational attitude, that is, a readiness to listen to critical arguments and to learn from experience. |
|
The student outburst of activism in the 1960s emerged out of a lack of an ideological opposite to western liberal democracy. |
|
On both counts, principles which should be central to any liberal democracy have become dangerously eroded. |
|
Instead it is a rejection of the view of some on the left that socialism consists of a defeat of liberal democracy. |
|
For good and bad, very few things are left implicit or unspoken in the life of a liberal democracy. |
|
To begin with, the objective of liberal democracy is not limitless freedom. |
|
And when Strauss is mentioned in the press, he is typically described as a great defender of liberal democracy against totalitarian tyranny. |
|
Second, was liberal democracy or autocracy the future for the governance of mankind's common affairs? |
|
The second ingredient of liberal democracy that such illiberalism denies is a belief in the superiority of reasoned argument over force. |
|
Yet in practice, liberal democracy should also allow for checks on government and limits to majority rule. |
|
While modernity saw liberal democracy and pluralism, it also saw the concentration camp and the gulag. |
|
As a country moves, one hopes, from outright dictatorship to full liberal democracy, the rules change. |
|
This trend is scarring the social landscape of every liberal democracy, and it doesn't only hit us on the roads. |
|
The Kingdom of Cambodia has adopted and implements a system of liberal democracy and pluralism. |
|
|
The real challenge that liberal democracy is facing today is the rise of democratic illiberalism. |
|
It is associated with a kind of universalism, of the market plus liberal democracy. |
|
This is completely out of character in a modern liberal democracy committed to equality of opportunity and individual rights. |
|
Torture should remain anathema to a liberal democracy and should never be regulated, countenanced, or covertly accepted in a war on terror. |
|
He spoke the language of nationalistic despotism, not that of liberal democracy. |
|
Thus, in india, pluralism melds cultures with the spirit of liberal democracy. |
|
And if they spend too much energy slagging each other off, that will be a perfect gift to the enemies of liberal democracy. |
|
When hegemony breaks down, as it did for liberal democracy in late Weimar, there will be a recourse to extreme measures to preserve the status quo. |
|
Only the advancement of liberal democracy could serve as an antidote to the noxious strains of Islamism emanating from the region. |
|
It comes from a deep-seated conviction that there is only one economic system, the globalised free market, set in the political context of liberal democracy. |
|
Where such traditions are absent or weak, popular sovereignty easily turns into populist dictatorship, liberal democracy to libertinism and demagoguery. |
|
Civility is an essential virtue in a free society, for without it, both free market capitalism and liberal democracy risk degenerating into anarchy or repression. |
|
Just call me a frenzied liberal democracy fetishist, please. |
|
Cambodia is a Kingdom with a King who shall rule according to the Constitution and to the principles of liberal democracy and pluralism. |
|
If we fail to do this an illusion of nostalgia might set in the minds of younger generations as an alternative to liberal democracy. |
|
The Union must be modernised and strengthened according to the values and principles of liberal democracy and market economy. |
|
As defined in the Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia, the country practices a regime of constitutional monarchy, liberal democracy and pluralism. |
|
In South East Europe, where many countries are in transition towards liberal democracy, higher standards of good governance in politics and business are urgently needed. |
|
In popular parlance, freedom is used as a synonym for liberal democracy. |
|
A liberal democracy is supposed to guarantee the liberties of individuals. |
|
|
Remember that terrorists are those who set out to destroy all tenets of liberal democracy, who refuse to live by our civilised laws, but who are adept at exploiting them when it suits their nefarious purposes. |
|
On the first bias, despite the variety of actors, there is an overwhelming tendency amongst funders to adopt a naïve and uncritical approach to existing models of liberal democracy. |
|
These facts lead to many different adjectives being placed before the term democracy: liberal democracy, representative democracy, consociational democracy, participatory democracy and direct democracy, to name but a few. |
|
One might think that a Mousavi victory would lead to a Western liberal democracy, and indeed it might be the first step on a long journey in that direction. |
|
Nice work: liberal democracy supporting coercion! |
|
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, liberal democracy has become an even more prevalent form of government. |
|
During forty years of hegemony, it was the most successful political party in the history of Western liberal democracy. |
|
As a well-established liberal democracy with a strong legal tradition of human rights and an independent judiciary, India has the makings of a powerful role model. |
|
I find it extraordinary that those who have profited so much from European integration in terms of prosperity, security and liberal democracy should now refuse to extend those prizes towards Turkey. |
|
The Kingdom of Cambodia adheres to a system of liberal democracy and pluralism, which has provided every citizen with freedom and rights to take part in politics. |
|
We cannot escape the fact that we have built a great liberal democracy in part through the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the imposition of our cultural norms. |
|
Trollope is almost alone in being the great bard of liberal democracy. |
|
It is a structural crisis of liberal democracy, but in Kenya the Government is in denial, playing the game of the ostrich, burying its head in the sand. |
|
The centre-right believes in dialogue and the need to work together realistically with the often silent majority of Muslims who want nothing to do with terror in order to explain the possibilities of liberal democracy. |
|
As a result, while the days of the monolithic nationalist parties may be numbered, they are being replaced not by liberal democracy, but by growing factionalism and institutional decay. |
|
Both countries are dedicated to religious freedom, liberal democracy, the rule of law, free enterprise, a strong participatory civil society, economic fairness, multiethnic equality and a rule-bound international order. |
|
Social policy in an advanced liberal democracy like ours can surely do better for our youth than leave them fending for themselves in the school of hard knocks. |
|
If the PQ proved to be a target of extra-legal surveillance methods, the matter would raise serious issues about liberal democracy of much wider concern to Canadians than to Quebec sovereignists alone. |
|
After a period of sustained expansion throughout the 20th century, liberal democracy became the predominant political system in the world. |
|
The institutions of liberal democracy ultimately became the key to the successful matching of rights and responsibilities, as well as becoming the institutions through which collective choice could be exercised. |
|
|
With the collapse of the Soviet Union it was widely assumed that liberal democracy had won the battle of ideologies and would spread to the four corners of the earth, and for a while this seemed to be true. |
|
In the first place, this means educational opportunity in order to build a more broadly based understanding of what liberal democracy is and what it implies, with regard to the behaviour of both governments and peoples. |
|
Such governance does not necessarily imply the forms and values of liberal democracy, which is only one model of responsible citizenship and governance. |
|
The most it can ever realistically hope for even if a liberal democracy were to take root on the mainland is an arrangement along the lines of the European Union that preserves separate sovereignties. |
|
Results showed that both women in government and liberal democracy were significantly and inversely related to corruption when they were isolated from each other. |
|
As a liberal democracy, youth transitions are not nearly as short as in the United Kingdom, at least partially due to the high proportion of youth who pursue postsecondary education. |
|
The war is not now seen as a 'fight about nothing', but as a war of ideals, a struggle between aggressive militarism and more or less liberal democracy. |
|
Afrikanerdom is being repositioned as an endangered minority within a liberal democracy. From a strategic point of view this must be judged a good move. |
|
Examples of governments include monarchy, Communist state, military dictatorship, theocracy, and liberal democracy, the last of which is considered dominant today. |
|
Indeed, implicit in his whole argument is the claim that liberal democracy and modern equality can be realized only in relation to such substantialities. |
|
Liberal democracy reflects the normative orientation that people and their rights are superior to government, with governments existing to secure those rights. |
|
Liberal democracy with its Western structured ontology of abstract individualism has been a failure in Africa where communalist ontology subsists. |
|