If representative democracy worked properly there would be little to complain about if parliament chose to deliver on social and economic rights. |
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There is still an opportunity for the Bush Administration to set Iraq onto a political path leading to representative democracy. |
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A narrower version of the instrumental view of free expression focuses on its utility in the functioning of a representative democracy. |
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Simple representative democracy in such a plural polity will no longer work. |
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But consumerism is a world language and, allied with representative democracy, it is the way of the world. |
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The British system of representative democracy has always abhorred referendums on moral issues. |
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This is a serious development which could threaten free elections and representative democracy itself. |
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The Western ideal for representative democracy involves free, multiparty elections and maintenance of civil liberties. |
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The representative democracy of our Constitution is not confined to a ceremonial visit of electors to the ballot box each triennium. |
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The early adoption of the institutions of representative democracy included the secret ballot. |
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But perhaps the most important issue you start to confront is that of our representative democracy becoming ingrained, insular, and angry. |
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We have abandoned representative democracy in this country in the name of participatory democracy. |
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This participation will not be limited to the mechanisms of representative democracy but may also cover new forms of participation. |
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Their rules, organization and operation are governed by the principles of representative democracy. |
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Finally, representative democracy is exercised through the choice of leaders and this choice is primarily the result of an election. |
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Without localism and a sense of identity, what will be left of representative democracy? |
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It has even been rather excitably suggested that the move may lead to the end of representative democracy as we know it. |
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I used to teach school, where I emphasized to students the fact that we live in a system of government of representative democracy. |
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Such a provision is unnecessary, conflicting with the principles of a representative democracy. |
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This is different from representative democracy, or meritocracy. |
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The process, however, still lacks the ingredients that can ensure real participation of the people in representative democracy. |
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Representation: In a representative democracy like Canada's, we elect federal and provincial officials to represent us. |
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Perhaps public opinion and representative democracy should be more receptive to exchanging ideas and to learning from each other. |
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The working of the Union shall be founded on the principle of representative democracy. |
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This has two dimensions: representative democracy, which is its foundation, and participatory democracy, which enhances it. |
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There is a second point that I should like to touch on because I am a dyed-in-the-wool supporter of representative democracy. |
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Thus the simple demand that representative democracy looks like the country it represents is somehow radical. |
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The main prerequisite of representative democracy is based on an assumption that an average citizen enjoys free and equal access to any political debate. |
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Measured by Enlightenment standards, this is a perfectly representative democracy, answering individual wants in a time always tending towards ideal simultaneity. |
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Really, sortition strikes at the tension at the heart of elective representative democracy. |
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Argentina is a federal constitutional republic and representative democracy. |
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Some critics of representative democracy think of the United States as an oligarchy. |
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It is a form of government in which representative democracy operates under the principles of liberalism. |
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Genuinely participatory development is more likely to occur where there is a stronger and more vocal recognition of education as a fundamental human right and where representative democracy has taken root. |
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In addition, it was considered necessary to overcome the poorness of the representative democracy and the moulding of the citizens in conformist behaviours. |
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The continual challenge, and also the saving grace of representative democracy, is that the will of the majority must not trump the rights of minorities. |
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People who have grown up in the information society will no longer accept the ossified procedures of representative democracy, the reliance upon hierarchies and authoritative decision-making structures. |
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Because of the time required to arrive at a representative democracy or because of less successful attempts, the local population can sometimes become disenchanted with democracy. |
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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. |
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A representative democracy only represents those who participate in it. |
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And they have hurt representative democracy. |
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This only strengthens representative democracy. |
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Faced with declining confidence in political systems, the Commission believes that it is important to ensure that representative democracy continues to maintain the trust and involvement of Europe's citizens. |
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While her country recognized the representative democracy referred to in the draft resolution, it also defined itself as a participatory and proactive democracy. |
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It is the focal point for worldwide parliamentary dialogue and works for peace and cooperation among peoples and for the firm establishment of representative democracy. |
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Therearetwoaspectstothis:oneismoreformalandinvolv esthemechanis ms of representative democracy, the other is more informal and aims to develop new forms of participation. |
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The emergence of deliberative democracy and the renewed interest in active public involvement have raised questions about whether it should be seen as an alternative or a supplement to representative democracy. |
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In these two Articles, the AU upholds the basic democratic principle that elections are a legitimate method of transfer of power and the only democratic manner of expressing popular sovereignty in a representative democracy. |
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So, strategically, what we need to do is progressively rebuild representative democracy in Africa by making it integrate multiple representations on the basis of multiple sources of power. |
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Intervening simply to create democratic space may ignore the fact that the basic needs of some people can remain unfulfilled even in a truly representative democracy. |
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As the new technologies make plebiscitary democracy and instantaneous bureaucratic responsiveness more and more possible, there could be less reliance on representative democracy. |
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The country's constitution establishes a representative democracy as the political system. |
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It asserts that the only acceptable constitutional form of government is representative democracy under the rule of law. |
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The Federal Republic of Central America was a representative democracy with its capital at Guatemala City. |
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As a representative democracy with a constitutional monarch, it is headed by Grand Duke Henri and is the world's only remaining grand duchy. |
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Today, Austria is a parliamentary representative democracy comprising nine federal states. |
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Norway is fundamentally structured as a representative democracy. |
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Many academic political theorists agree with Mill, that in a representative democracy the representatives should represent all segments of society. |
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Since the early 1990s, Cape Verde has been a stable representative democracy, and remains one of the most developed and democratic countries in Africa. |
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Iceland is a representative democracy and a parliamentary republic. |
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Somalia is a parliamentary representative democracy republic. |
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The wider culture of Europe has also influenced British culture, and Humanism, Protestantism and representative democracy developed from broader Western culture. |
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Evans argues it was the 1832 Act, not the later reforms of 1867, 1884, or 1918, that were decisive in bringing representative democracy to Britain. |
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Denmark is a representative democracy with universal suffrage. |
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Parliamentary sovereignty refers to a representative democracy where the parliament is ultimately sovereign and not the executive power nor the judiciary. |
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Basic civil liberties undergird our system of representative democracy and many of the key provisions of the USA Patriot Act of 2001 undermine them. |
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Representative democracy must mean that those who govern will fairly represent the governed. |
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