adjective
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a democratic constitution
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Andorra voted in favour of a new democratic constitution.
a democratic regime
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the establishment of a liberal democratic regime
a democratic society
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Education is important in a democratic society.
a democratic state
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They wanted to transform the country into a modern democratic state.
a democratic/capitalist/communist etc country
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the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe
a democratic/socialist/communist experiment (= one in which a country tries a new political system )
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He went to Havana to judge for himself the success or failure of the socialist experiment.
a Labour/Democratic/Tory etc majority
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Republican majorities were elected in both Houses of Congress that year.
a Republican/Democratic/Labour etc candidate
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This part of Florida usually supports Republican candidates.
democratic
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The unions are calling for democratic elections.
political/democratic/constitutional reform
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He stressed that democratic reform could not be achieved overnight.
socialist/democratic/liberal ideals
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He is committed to democratic ideals such as majority rule.
the Labour/Conservative/Social Democratic etc government
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In August 1931, the Labour government collapsed.
the Labour/Democratic etc Party
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The leadership race within the Republican Party is almost over.
the Republican/Democratic etc nomination (= the nomination to be the candidate for a political party in an election )
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Feinstein beat Van de Kamp for the Democratic mayoral nomination.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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Our aim will be the creation of stable government for a whole Parliament and a more democratic basis for future elections.
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The workplace will be more democratic .
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We are more democratic than the Democratic Party.
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The ultimate goal is a freer, more democratic and more participatory society as a whole.
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This is all the more reason to find a more democratic way of deciding the state for the first primary.
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Many parents have become more democratic in their treatment of children.
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By 1988 age-limits had been set for top posts and the way they were filled had become more democratic .
truly
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A truly democratic government would have realised the populace was against the tax and abandoned it immediately.
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But many still feel that the prisoners must be released first for a truly democratic process to take place on the island.
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To be truly democratic , the subordinate must be willing to participate.
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In a truly democratic state the bureaucracy would be transcended.
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accountability
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Strengthening democratic accountability in the Community was one of the issues discussed.
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So there were great virtues in decentralisation and democratic accountability at all levels in any society.
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This led to great public cynicism now being manifested as pressure for democratic accountability in the state-run television station.
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Also we have democratic accountability for the customs service, which is deeply involved.
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Finally, Labour would aim to create greater democratic accountability .
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Guidance for local councils refers to democratic accountability , social and economic equity.
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The basic reason given was that the traditional rating system failed to produce democratic accountability .
centralism
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He and Self devoted infinite pains to making this democratic centralism work.
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Its recent congress broke from democratic centralism and Marxism-Leninism.
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The transference of the principle of democratic centralism from party to state organization further weakens accountability and the role of elected bodies.
change
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The pact was ostensibly motivated by a desire to eradicate political dynasties and corruption in favour of political renovation and democratic change .
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We have a better opportunity for generating progressive, democratic change than at any time during the past 50 years.
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Growing pressure for democratic change On Oct. 3 the Appeal Court overturned the conviction and sentencing of two prominent political prisoners.
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We appreciated the current wind of democratic change blowing over the continent.
consolidation
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There are still problems with the definition of democratic consolidation .
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In this sense, it may be that democratic consolidation is merely a political situation in which democracy has not broken down.
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This acceptance of the democratic rules of the game and the eventual sharing of electoral victories leads to democratic consolidation .
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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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The two variables that have the most impact on successful democratic consolidation are prior regime type and the initiator of the transition.
constitution
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Ninety-seven percent of those qualified to vote did so and a new democratic constitution was adopted by unanimous vote.
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Every democratic constitution is based on the limitation of power.
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On March 10-11 a rally by students demanded free elections, freedom of the media and a democratic constitution .
control
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But it also questions the extent to which this freedom creates a loss of democratic control .
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Instead Bobbio wishes to extend democratic control to a number of areas within society with strengthened civil, political and social rights.
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Hunger is, in this sense, a question of democracy and democratic control .
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The emphasis is now on technical specialization and expertise rather than democratic control .
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The labour movement's demands stressed the democratic control of industry by employees' representatives.
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I think all these regeneration schemes should be under democratic control .
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Parliament must exercise democratic control over the conduct of foreign policy.
country
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You would expect the governments of most democratic countries to be horrified by this prospect; but no.
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In some less democratic countries , state repression deters the great majority of citizens from participation.
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It had been a democratic country and had ancient traditions of learning and libertarianism.
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In democratic countries the risks may not be so high, but there still are some risks.
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In most liberal democratic countries there is some measure of agreement in the news media on political facts.
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Mr Rodrik's second point is that non-democratic countries can not count on the same trade privileges as democratic ones.
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They industrialized later than the democratic countries and had a strong agrarian elite.
election
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They called for democratic elections in the trade unions.
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I would like to fight against Milosevic and defeat him in democratic elections .
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If democratic elections still exist, the chances are that the government will be voted out of office.
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Since 1980, 57 countries have replaced military dictatorships or other forms of one-party rule with democratic elections .
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The Velvet Revolution Czechoslovakia goes to the polls this month in the first democratic election since 1946.
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Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists were both said to be planning campaigns to monitor progress towards democratic elections .
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Andriamanjato proposed democratic elections under a new constitution within 18 months.
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The intention is to take the town's fate in hand, until such time as democratic elections are held.
forces
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These Urn terms the popular democratic forces .
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As divided and unprepared democratic forces fumbled for a plan of action, demagogues would rush forward convincingly promising protection.
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The anti-communist revolution, led by Boris Yeltsin, ended with the victory of democratic forces and the people.
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Delegates also demanded the representation of democratic forces in a provisional People's Hural until the parliamentary elections.
form
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In the Republican zone, power remained in civilian hands and democratic forms were maintained until the end.
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The key difference in these studies lies in their results for the effects of democratic forms of rule on political protest.
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The democratic form remains; the function is failing.
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They are often, and perhaps even typically, characterized by authoritarian rather than democratic forms of government.
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The documents and articles look towards more democratic forms of communication and outline a new vision for the 21st century.
government
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In addition, the generals are threatening to overthrow the first democratic government the country has had in 40 years.
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If there is any point at all to democratic government it is, surely, to redress the balance in our favour.
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It was a unilateral action that risked general war in support of a less than democratic government threatened by pro-Nasser Arabs.
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That is what democratic governments should be discussing together with great urgency.
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Having made real progress in establishing democratic governments and free markets, they seek to professionalize their military establishments.
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No democratic government , with elections to win and problems to solve, can find these questions easy.
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An enactment which threatened the essential elements of any plausible conception of democratic government would lie beyond those boundaries.
ideal
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Two potential avenues for this enterprise have been suggested: the corporatist and the democratic ideal of the company.
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The democratic ideal ... embeds at its heart the ideal of compromise.
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A different vision of the company might draw upon the democratic ideal which inspires the relation of the citizen to the state.
institution
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After Franco's death at the end of 1975, the overwhelming political preoccupation was the creation of new democratic institutions .
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Tolerance for democracy must be cultivated to reinforce our democratic institutions .
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Pateman also believes political obligation can not be given expression in the liberal democratic institutions .
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Prussia, like Britain, had a relatively long period of effective, legitimate government before the introduction of democratic institutions .
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The objection to the House of Lords is that it is not a democratic institution .
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That people sue establishes that our democratic institutions are still functional.
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Clearly the Community is not a democratic institution .
movement
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However, before the First World War it was not at all clear how far the social democratic movements had been subverted.
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Karimov issued a general amnesty, but a rally organized by democratic movements on Aug. 26 was broken up by militia.
participation
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Are we seeing a democratic participation in all walks of life?
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Many people have recommended other forms of democratic participation , from neighborhood assemblies to a national initiative and referendum process.
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Institutions for change Rural development demands institutional pluralism and democratic participation .
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You espouse democratic participation in design.
party
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It now has to become a modern social democratic party which can win because of the popularity of its vision.
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The extreme social and economic difficulties they faced on independence meant that the emergence of recognizably democratic party politics was by no means certain.
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Muhamad Salikh, chair of the ErK democratic party , gained 12 percent.
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Labour already has links with social democratic parties the world over.
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They can dilute their class appeal and become simply another party of government, the course generally adopted by social democratic parties.
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The Labour Party is one of the continent's most powerful and enduring social democratic parties.
politics
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I n the United States the hot breath of corruption is misting up the mirror of democratic politics .
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The key to democratic politics is accountability.
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And a split is what is needed if democratic politics is to develop in the Soviet Union.
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Much of the popular carnival atmosphere of traditional democratic politics was eliminated.
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The fourth Marxist approach to diversity in liberal democratic politics is even more revisionist.
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From this perspective democratic politics , and the two-party system in particular, was the problem and the cause of our economic ills.
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Economics must not come before democratic politics .
principle
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Certainly there may be situations and organizations for which the democratic principle is inappropriate.
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The democratic principle is one person one vote, as is the principle of statistical analysis.
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Young people have not been taught any democratic principles or told about the constitution.
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Is it the best that can be achieved, the nearest practicable approximation to the democratic principle ?
process
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Mitterrand and Lecanuet portrayed the General's refusal to campaign as contempt for the democratic process .
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What is relevant is what the whole thing is doing to the democratic process .
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There will be just enough time for some semblance of the democratic process within the party to operate.
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But, we are reassured, there is always the protection of the democratic process .
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She may have been vice-president to Abdurrahman Wahid since he was elected president in what passes for a democratic process .
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Ultimately, the democratic process may take precedence over democracy itself.
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To improve the effectiveness of democratic processes .
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Best value's framework incorporates the potential for achieving quality service provision underlined by fair, democratic processes .
reform
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Yet with an appealing brew of nationalism and promise of democratic reform , Kostunica has since turned Yugoslav politics upside down.
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The army, on the other hand, has remained largely neutral in the unprecedented fight to force democratic reform from Milosevic.
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Two aspects of the shift in emphasis accorded to democratic reform need to be distinguished.
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Mr Tung must maintain momentum towards democratic reforms , increasing the number of directly elected representatives in the territory's legislature.
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The Maastricht summit gives us great opportunities for economic, social and democratic reform .
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In a speech on March 30 Hammadi pledged that his government would introduce major democratic reforms .
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Increasingly the protesters demanded the resignation of the government and the introduction of democratic reforms .
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He stressed that democratic reform could not be achieved overnight but would take time.
regime
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The new democratic regime has carried out very few investigations into war crimes.
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There were no guarantees that the wealthy, stable, democratic regime of later years would emerge.
revolution
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Moreover, this democratic revolution was dangerous.
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But given the democratic revolution on its own doorstep, the Soviet Union is now distanced from its long-time proteges.
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The federal pattern of democratic revolution and the Centralista tradition can only be understood in terms of this municipal patriotism.
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Participates in the democratic revolution that overthrows the Tsar.
rule
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This acceptance of the democratic rules of the game and the eventual sharing of electoral victories leads to democratic consolidation.
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Thus, the successful model of economic growth has been accompanied by a long period of non-democratic rule .
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Today the burnt-out houses stand as a monument to the failed hope that democratic rule would rescue the delta.
socialism
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Furthermore democratic socialism was feared and detested by doctrinaire Marxists because it offered planning in conjunction with freedom.
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A second major variation within socialist ideology is democratic socialism .
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What conclusions can be drawn from this experiment in democratic socialism ?
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The concept of liberalism in the United States is best understood as a very limited version of democratic socialism .
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Labour must reassert the ideological strength and popular appeal of the values and ideals of democratic socialism .
society
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Good independent journalism underpins a free, democratic society .
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The Communist variant of management Centralism goes much further, to be sure, than the variant found in democratic societies .
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Political theory rests on the assumption that these activities are central to the functioning of a democratic society .
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They are not designed to be a good reflex of a democratic society .
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The removal of old-style apartheid and the beginnings of a democratic society have brought more bloodshed than ever.
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Radio was to serve as a massive force for political enlightenment in our democratic society .
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Within democratic societies like our own there is much more that librarians can do and should do against censorship.
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Such ignorance is unacceptable in a democratic society , and whatever can be done to eradicate it should be done.
state
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The Parliamentary Council feared a democratic state incapable of functioning as much as a dictatorship too capable of functioning.
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These features make elite theory central in arguments about the liberal democratic state .
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The House of Lords Almost all democratic states have a legislature composed of two Houses.
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Higher administrators are also seen as dominant within the political directorate of the liberal democratic state .
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Instrumentalists have never paid great attention to the detailed institutional organization of the liberal democratic state .
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The 1949 Constitution established Costa Rica as a democratic state with an executive President directly elected for a four-year term.
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Arbiter theorists also recognize that liberal democratic states vary greatly in their internal organization between federal and unitary forms.
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Kirgizia declared itself an independent, sovereign and democratic state on 1 September.
structure
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Much of it happened simply because, amid weak democratic structures and lazy press reporting, it could.
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It promised to adopt more democratic structures and said it would be an equal partner with other political parties.
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Second, local government is part of the overall democratic structure of the state.
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This direction and control must come from local democratic structures , both in local government and in the community.
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Party members voted to give the organisation a more democratic structure .
system
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Many fear the longer the fighting goes on the less the chance of a tolerant democratic system emerging.
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They had the opportunity to make up for this loss by sharing in 40 years of prosperity under a democratic system .
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His government was expected to start work without delay on a new constitution enshrining a pluralist democratic system .
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It is the essence of our democratic system .
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How do you sustain a democratic system in a country in which the public is turned off?
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It is going to take both time and understanding to help these countries get on their feet once more with a democratic system .
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In a democratic system political parties expect to alternate in office.
theory
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He thus diagnoses a crisis of legal ideology and democratic theory .
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They argue that democratic theory needs to be adjusted to the realities of governing Britain in the twentieth century.
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This implies a further deviation from democratic theory , a system within which some individuals and groups have special statuses.
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These writers were faced with a fundamental tactical problem in the development of democratic theory .
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According to Schumpeter, his definition improves on classical democratic theory in a variety of ways.
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Other criticisms of pluralist democratic theory rely less on epistemological differences and more on inconsistencies and omissions.
tradition
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An elected body may spring from long democratic tradition or little, from a multicultural society or a homogeneous one.
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Initially it seemed unlikely that this stern, aloof, and unpopular general would be the person to inaugurate a democratic tradition .
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All these states were poorer than the previous members, with less industrialised economies and less secure democratic traditions .
transition
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Thus, the durability of Czechoslovakia's democratic transition will be severely tested in the coming months.
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To some degree, the studies avoid selection bias since some of the countries have not experienced democratic transitions .
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These general similarities are contrasted to the differences in the nature of their democratic transition .
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In each study, contextual description is used in an effort to make larger inferences about the process of democratic transition .
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A definitive and concise statement on democratic transition and consolidation with contemporary relevance and applicability.
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These differences are due to several important factors concerning the study of democratic transition .
value
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For those who cherish the core social democratic values of justice, freedom and solidarity there is everything to play for.
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Chapter 3 explored the various critiques of social democratic values and policies and the suggested policy alternatives.
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The potential victims of this autocracy were not only liberal democratic values , but also effective government.
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These demonstrators were not giving a heart-warming display of democratic values .
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At its best it had focused ideas and inculcated democratic values .
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No society which believes in democratic values can allow the ballot box to be overridden by the bomb and the bullet.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a democratic government
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Costa Rica is often mentioned as an example of what countries can accomplish under stable, democratic governments.
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Open, free, and fair elections are the most basic element of the democratic process.
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Some people favor a more democratic style of parenting, saying they fear being too strict with their children.
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The Communist Party was voted out of power in the nation's first democratic elections in decades.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A democratic process of elections should ensure a fair level of representation.
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Certainly there may be situations and organizations for which the democratic principle is inappropriate.
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Elsewhere, however, the democratic test has been more loosely applied.
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Hunger is, in this sense, a question of democracy and democratic control.
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In this perspective, people's control over their health and their health services is a democratic right.
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It may be easier for an authoritarian regime than for a democratic one to carry out economic restructuring.
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While democratic governments are giving away the Empire which our fathers won, our people are abandoned to poverty and unemployment.
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Who are exercising their democratic rights?