noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
liberal state/society/democracy etc
social democracy
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
direct
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The system of direct democracy made the Soviet immediately responsive to the mood of rank-and-file workers.
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His ideal was to transplant the classical Athenian model of direct democracy to the new world.
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Democracy meant government by the people themselves; what is now tendentiously termed direct democracy .
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But direct democracy could not survive the size and complexity of the pluralistic, sprawling nation-states that developed in modern times.
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Mr Kinnock hinted at the weekend that direct democracy was likely to become mandatory relatively soon.
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Like or dislike it, direct democracy is on the way.
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The court was confident that elements of direct democracy can coexist within the representative republic.
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Many people argue that direct democracy is unworkable, that society needs representatives to debate and decide issues, Davis said.
economic
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The first two studies find significant statistical evidence in support of a relationship between economic development and democracy .
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Chapter 4 assessed the many comparisons of the relationship between economic development and democracy .
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Overall, the statistical results confirm the relationship between economic development and democracy established by the comparative studies in the earlier phase.
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These studies demonstrate that the relationship between economic development and democracy does not hold for all countries.
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In other words, the effect of economic development on democracy is lower in newly developed and developing countries.
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Summary Table 4.5 summarizes the ` comparison of comparisons' on the relationship between economic development and democracy presented in this chapter.
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Simple analysis reveals that the relationship between levels of economic development and democracy is strong.
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This is a good overview of the entire topic of economic development and democracy .
great
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It was a system that could not endure, and agitations for greater democracy grew steadily louder.
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Interactivity was supposed to be great-democracy at its most cuddly.
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In his key-note National Day address to parliament in August Suharto appeared to endorse moves towards greater openness and democracy .
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This it sees as evidence of the shop-floor pressures for greater industrial democracy .
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Mr Patten pledged to continue fighting for greater democracy for the colony.
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First, we want steady progress towards a greater degree of democracy in Hong Kong.
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The deepest divisions have centered on demands for greater internal party democracy and the pace of party reform.
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Of course the continent needs greater democracy .
industrial
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That aim must be linked to industrial democracy , profit-sharing and share ownership.
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A thorough review of social movement theory and research in advanced industrial democracies .
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And in that separation, in that accommodation, there was no place for industrial democracy .
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The answer is: industrial democracy .
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This it sees as evidence of the shop-floor pressures for greater industrial democracy .
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It was, and remains, authentic industrial democracy .
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One feature of this shift was an emphasis on industrial democracy , which drew heavily on principles of codetermination.
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Legitimation for such delegated enforcement was usually sought through schemes for participation, such as industrial democracy , regional devolution or community action.
liberal
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Yet in a liberal democracy , such a declaration can not easily be made; indeed the opposite must be proclaimed.
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Bureaucratization and centralization were also tied to the growth of liberal democracy and socialism in intended and unintended ways.
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Elections provide a more stable method of succession, especially in liberal democracies .
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Pluralism or membership of associations, he suggests, provides the individual with the participation lacking in a liberal democracy .
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The libertarian theory of the media is based on western liberal democracy .
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Revolutions are only contemplated by cadres with intense preferences: most workers in liberal democracies will not vote for a revolution.
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In any liberal democracy a mobilization of bias is cumulatively created by the outcomes of political and social conflicts.
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By the early 1930s scepticism with liberal democracy was widespread.
local
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And last week the peers engaged in a debate on local democracy and local services moved by Lord Williams of Elvel.
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And it was reportedly a profitable slumber; many were allegedly being paid for their dedication to local democracy .
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Some commentators see such developments as further evidence of the erosion of local democracy .
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We believe that the principle of accountability in local democracy has gone out of the window under this Government.
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First under the poll tax and now under the council tax, central control has replaced local democracy in determining spending.
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However, we should interfere in local government with some trepidation because local democracy and local accountability underpin parliamentary democracy and accountability.
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As far as local democracy was concerned, no evidence was clearly discernible either for an improvement or for a deterioration.
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A story of local democracy and participatory initiative dating from the reforms of the later 1880s came to its sad close.
modern
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Vanhanen's democracy prediction Political parties are a central element of modern representative democracies.
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Feudalism was basically bad; modern democracies are good.
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It may yet serve as an unhappy reminder that there are divides greater than those between modern capitalism and modern social democracy .
multiparty
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He insisted that he had acted within the Constitution and reaffirmed his commitment to multiparty democracy .
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As in many other countries, popular demands for the introduction of multiparty democracy grew in the first half of 1990.
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Two demonstrations in support of multiparty democracy had been held on Dec. 10 and Dec. 31.
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The arrests came soon after they had sent an open letter to Sassou Nguesso calling for multiparty democracy .
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The government was to be responsible for executing decisions of the conference during a transition to multiparty democracy .
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New constitutional committee A 14-member committee was appointed on Jan. 21 to draft a new constitution for multiparty democracy .
new
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The pressure is discreet - after all, the survival of a key Western ally and a new democracy is at stake.
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To Yacouba the new watchwords of democracy and modernization are vast improvements on the furore of the Revolution.
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Thus, the lesson for new democracies is that the choice of institutions is directly linked to the challenges of democratic consolidation.
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To refuse a debate would be to pass up an opportunity to breathe a little new life into democracy .
parliamentary
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I see no purpose in a further referendum on that matter - we are a parliamentary democracy .
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However, we should interfere in local government with some trepidation because local democracy and local accountability underpin parliamentary democracy and accountability.
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Is majority rule under a system of parliamentary democracy a sufficient guarantee of legitimacy?
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For the whole sample, the comparison reveals that presidential democracies are more likely to break down than parliamentary democracies.
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At £12 per table leader, parliamentary democracy is getting good value.
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Within our system of parliamentary democracy , only inter-party competition was seen as crucial and desirable.
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A new role for the courts has to be fashioned out of our system of parliamentary democracy - Justinian.
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In most parliamentary democracies voter turnout tends to be around half to three-quarters of the electorate.
participatory
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Several authors, who see the failings of our present system, do not wish to see an extension of participatory democracy .
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This book will explore both the opportunities and the dangers ahead for participatory democracy in the electronic information age.
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This can only occur in participatory or self-managing democracy .
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Power comes from the cultivation of the scientific spirit and participatory democracy .
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Bobbio has doubts, therefore, as to the educative benefits of participatory democracy .
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Thus we require participatory democracy to give the individual a real measure of control over the life and structure of his/her environment.
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They advocated some form of participatory democracy with free elections and a multi-party system.
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For Pateman, participatory democracy hinges on the premise that individuals and their institutions can not be placed apart.
political
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In the absence of broader political democracy , active community participation gets suppressed and distorted.
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This, it has been suggested, is the danger of overselling the norms of political democracy in the schools.
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In short, though not yet fully attained, political democracy had become respectable, and Socialism had become arguable.
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Nor will it do so in countries where genuine political democracy is firmly established and the electorate will no longer support the objectives.
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What would be the institutional conditions for a genuine cultural and political democracy , for example?
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Finally, further analysis demonstrates that the level of political democracy has a negative effect on the strike volume.
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The result is an absence of diversity - a key requirement for a truly representative press and one suited for political democracy .
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Monopolization required imperialism and both were incompatible with the political democracy represented by Weimar.
representative
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What constraints are imposed by representative democracy ?
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The wired village will inevitably lead the world in the direction of more direct rather than representative democracies .
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But neither has found an authentic expression in the institutions of representative democracy .
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In theory, our representative system of democracy gives us that ownership.
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Furthermore, the nature of political authority in representative democracies means that governments are bound by doctrines of accountability.
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Part I examines representative democracy and the end of the old politics.
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Local government is based on the system of representative democracy: councillors are elected to make policy on behalf of the general population.
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Vanhanen's democracy prediction Political parties are a central element of modern representative democracies.
social
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By no means all revolutionaries were converted to social democracy .
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Thus, the possibility of social democracy is also neatly nipped in the bud.
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Second, Labour under Mr Kinnock is belatedly making the transition to continental-style social democracy .
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Class-based social democracy also grew during the period.
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It may yet serve as an unhappy reminder that there are divides greater than those between modern capitalism and modern social democracy .
true
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It can be argued that Monsieur Guillotin was the true founder of democracy by eliminating class distinction in public executions.
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This is the true nature of democracy and of all distributed governance.
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Q: If this election results in a true democracy , is it exportable to the rest of the Arab world?
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Surely a true democracy also depends on such values as responsibility, caring, ingenuity, and the art of compromise.
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But Great Groups are rarely true democracies .
western
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In most Western democracies in the twentieth century, legislatures have lost a great deal of ground to executive branches.
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The market-based economies and private ownership in Western democracies make an essential difference in the scope and application of the centralization concepts.
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But the Note also made clear that the western democracies would not intervene to bring about the change of regime they advocated.
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Few other Western democracies expect their political leaders' wives to be national hostesses, homemakers or advocates.
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Other western democracies did no better.
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None of the legendary Western democracy operated in our relations, only the democracy of childhood.
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If so, public opinion in the western democracies would probably put up with quite a lot of blood and bodies.
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The United States can learn from other Western democracies that have developed policies that effectively protect their children from poverty.
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movement
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It has led to the election of President Chiluba, leader of the country's multi-party democracy movement .
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What started out as a relatively manageable protest against stolen elections has now mushroomed into a full-fledged democracy movement .
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While major political reforms had been secured, discontent remained among young supporters of the democracy movement .
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He has lived ever since on the ThaiBurma border, seeking to support and revive the democracy movement in his country.
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The other is a conversation with the poet Liao Yiwu active in the 1989 democracy movement and subsequently jailed.
■ VERB
establish
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We agree that it is the best way to help those countries to establish sound democracies and a sound economy.
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Can he say what further action we may take to establish democracy firmly there?
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But the ruling party's congress last month promised to establish a multi-party democracy .
promote
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What, then, are the grounds upon which local government can be said to promote democracy ?
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The United States can promote both democracy and free markets.
restore
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But, as a means of trying to break the deadlock and restore a little democracy , it was certainly worth discussing.
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In 1990 the Velvet Revolution restored democracy to Czechoslovakia.
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Our goal was to get rid of them, restore democracy and fix things up.
support
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He has lived ever since on the ThaiBurma border, seeking to support and revive the democracy movement in his country.
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Why say that the West gets another chance at supporting democracy ?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
long live democracy/freedom etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Adolfo Suarez supervised Spain's transition to democracy in the 1970s.
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Costa Rica is a democracy .
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In 1974, democracy returned to Greece after seven years of military rule.
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the democracies of Western Europe
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The team's partnership is not a democracy ; executives Larry Baer and Bob Quinn are the ones who make decisions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the growth of an emerging democracy over the past two years provides an outlet for his critics' denunciations.
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His statistical analysis reveals a strong positive effect of per capita income on the level of democracy .
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The answer is: industrial democracy .
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Until the past decade, the technology on which democracy had operated for some 2, 500 years had not changed much.
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We agree that it is the best way to help those countries to establish sound democracies and a sound economy.
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You say that this conflict is partly the result of governments in New Delhi undermining democracy in the state.