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However, America also believes that rolling back popular support for Islamic fundamentalism in the long term requires a legitimate democratic government.
Islamic parties have tended to benefit electorally when the democratic parties are politically hobbled.
As Venezuelans rummage through garbage looking for food, the regime flouts its international obligations and threatens its neighbors by undermining their own democratic institutions and processes.
Elections are a necessary but insufficient condition of democracy, which also requires durable institutions that embody democratic values.
Across developed and developing countries, violation of the public trust and failure to protect democratic institutions are straining systems of checks and balances that, in some cases, have been in place for centuries.
Assaults on democratic institutions are not limited to countries with little democratic experience.
In the West, extolling the virtues of democracy to others has long resembled proselytization of a secular religion, complete with the threat of fire and brimstone for those who do not embrace the democratic creed.
We must explain to citizens Europe’s contribution to public ethics, and the democratic virtues of fair competition in economic, political, and social life.
Otherwise, the Lisbon Strategy could merely empower an inefficient bureaucracy, rather than boosting the EU’s democratic legitimacy.
Because parties operate in parliaments, the disconnection affects one of the crucial democratic institutions.
There are alternatives, but each has its own problems as a democratic solution.
And with many advanced economies at a critical juncture, with unconscionable levels of inequality threatening to shred the very fabric of democratic politics, “equity for the poor” is an economic principle whose time has come.
Ukraine’s Democratic ChoiceSuddenly, Ukraine faces another stark choice: dismiss the government and parliament and hold new elections, or see the country’s independence surrendered bit by bit.
But the ultimate shortcoming of that cohabitation was its curtailment of the democratic process.
A new election will restore democratic choice – and thus revitalize our democracy.
So it would be wrong to say that the democratic center cannot hold in Ukraine.
The best and still most living thing about our Orange Revolution was the democratic empowerment of our people.
Moreover, all of Europe needs a truly democratic Ukraine.
But the nominees presented by the LDP government of Prime Minister Taro Aso (who is now Abe’s finance minister) were repeatedly rejected by the Diet’s upper house, which was controlled by the opposition Democratic Party of Japan.
In every democratic society, freedom for all has been at odds with equality for all, and vice versa.
But intervention by modern democratic states goes beyond the boundaries of the post-1945 welfare state, which sought to protect individuals against risks linked to old age, family responsibilities, accidents, illness, and the labor market.
So the birth and development of the welfare state reflects an inescapable fact: freedom and equality are both in tension and intimately linked, because both values are part and parcel of the democratic project.
Democratic principles call for organizing society in such a way that both values can be realized to the greatest possible extent.
But when it comes to political decision-making, democratic control and accountability are essential.
That would have painted the new regime with a veneer of democratic legitimacy, giving it greater authority.
In parts of the world where the rule of law is weak, criminal networks and corruption displace democratic processes.
Xi is determined to defy the trend-line of Western history, to see off Francis Fukuyama’s “end of history” culminating in the general triumph of liberal democratic capitalism, and preserve a Leninist state for the long term.
It is also a matter of democratic principle that laws are written in the language of every land where they apply.
Seldom do democratic elections give as clear a message as that in Greece.
Nevertheless, their skepticism toward democratic EU institutions may explain their receptiveness to authoritarian leaders.
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