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The filters that give users “what they want” had the effect of polarizing populations and eroding the legitimacy of fundamental democratic institutions (most notably, the free press).
But would such a referendum, now backed by a recently launched campaign for a “People’s Vote,” simply mark another descent into populism, instead of a genuinely democratic conclusion to the Brexit debate?
Democratic AlliancesAmerica's foreign alliances have become an issue in this year's presidential election campaign.
Senator John Kerry, the Democratic candidate, has accused President George W. Bush of neglecting and offending America's allies, particularly in Europe.
One was the democratic reconstruction of Europe after WWII, and the other was victory in the Cold War.
America is not perfect, but as long as it abides by its core values, it can overcome its mistakes and regain its soft power in democratic countries.
America's democratic values will be the key to success in restoring its soft power.
At first, NATO’s new members were declared to have met both democratic and military criteria.
Klaus sees political parties as the backbone of any democratic system and sees little place for civil society in politics.
President Havel argues that a democracy based only on political parties and basic democratic mechanisms is deformed.
In the United States, a distinction is frequently drawn between citizens of “red states,” which usually vote for the Republican Party, and those of “blue states” – concentrated in the Northeast, the upper Midwest, and the Pacific coast – which usually vote for the Democratic Party.
To illustrate, a mere 1% decrease in a state’s obesity on average is estimated to raise the ratio of Democratic to Republican voters from 1.00 to 1.07, easily enough to swing an election.
Evidently, people in New England, New York, and Hawaii, who more often vote Democratic, are not just slimmer, but are also less prone to engage in unprotected sex than those in the South and Republican-leaning Midwestern states.
The vertical dimension shows the ratio of Democratic to Republican votes in the 2008 presidential election.
Figure 1: Personal Responsibility Index and Ratio of Democratic to Republican votes (2008 presidential election) – click to enlargeCan Multiparty Democracy Work in Multiethnic Malaysia?
But while Malaysians continue to celebrate their peaceful democratic transition, a key question remains: Can multiparty democracy flourish in such a divided society?
These voters formed the basis of the AKP’s electoral victories and democratic legitimacy.
Political Islam’s Loss of Democratic LegitimacyDURHAM – This year, Islamist politics has faced massive setbacks in two major predominantly Muslim countries: Egypt and Turkey.
And non-Islamists are even less likely to trust the hardline Salafist Nour Party – the Islamist party that participated in Morsi’s ouster – to uphold democratic principles.
The only way the Muslim Brotherhood can hope to regain broad acceptance as a legitimate democratic player is with a constitution that includes credible mechanisms for guaranteeing pluralism and due process.
Political Islam has reached a critical juncture on the road toward democratic legitimacy.
Its continued progress will depend on the commitment of two of its leading promoters – Turkey’s AKP and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood – to design and implement political systems that safeguard the basic democratic principles of pluralism, freedom, and the rule of law.
The Transparency ConspiracySOFIA – One of the most troubling outcomes of the ongoing financial crisis has been a collapse of trust in democratic institutions and politicians.
Can greater “transparency” – the new political mantra of civic activists and an increasing number of democratic governments – reverse this trend?
In the words of one Finnish observer, it was “a landmark in the history of democracy and democratic elections.”
Rather than restoring trust in democratic institutions, the transparency movement could accelerate the transformation of democratic politics into the management of mistrust.
Modern science is democratic and meritocratic.
We Czechs are 100% European, and were even when the Iron Curtain cut us off from democratic Europe.
A wise political doctrine known as subsidiarity holds that public-policy challenges should be assigned to the lowest level of government able to address them, thereby ensuring maximum democratic participation in problem solving and the greatest opportunity to tailor solutions to genuine local needs.
For example, if democracy is to remain a viable political model, the information systems that democratic governments use must be designed to support human rights, dignity, self-determination, pluralism, division of responsibility, transparency, fairness, and justice.
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