liberal democracy
"Be a jew at home as well as in the street":religious world views in a liberal democracy
... a liberal democracy justifiable as long as it is not justified with an appeal to a particular conception of the good?6 Again, we have to wonder if such neutrality is feasible in the first ...a ...
16
The political economy of liberal democracy
... of liberal democracy is that it protects civil rights (equality before the law for minorities) in addition to the other ...produce liberal democracy, as the minority has neither the resources ...
42
Is the European Parliament committed to liberal democracy anymore? : the political discourse in the European parliament : norm contestation of liberal democracy
... Curtain, liberal democracies were thought to have supplanted any other competing forms of government and thus, it was long presumed that liberal democracy enjoys universal validity in the context of ...
86
Pluralist Populism: How Populism and Liberal Democracy can Coexist
... of liberal democracy espoused by social choice theorists fails to take into account the necessity of the us/them divide 87 ...through liberal democratic ...
67
Moral Foundations of Liberal Democracy, Secular Reasons, and Liberal Neutrality toward the Good
... There is also a limited obliga- tion of neutrality on the part of individual citizens in a liberal democracy: they may properly promote religious flourishing, but th[r] ...
23
Liberal Democracy, Citizenship and Class: Unresolved Contradictions of Capitalism
... the liberal state that had emanated from politically disenfranchised strata, the surge for the democratization of governing institutions was spurred by the intrinsic proclivity of capitalism to generate a “divided ...
9
The Incompatibility of Ecologism and Liberal Democracy: a Defence of the Incompatibility of Ecologist and Liberal Principles and a Critique of Green Democratic Decision-making Procedures
... which liberal democracy itself is now taken as the only appropriate vehicle for delivering ecological goods, which may rule out in principle other forms of political agency in green politics (Humphrey, 2001 ...
34
A Better Place to Be: Republicanism and the Liberal Democracy Index
... the Liberal Democratic Index, is different from the Freedom in the World ...a liberal democracy by the political theoretical ...a liberal democracy because it failed to be a ...
11
Voter Behaviour in General Elections in Kenya, 1992-2007: Implications for the Development of Liberal Democracy
... If the vote does not deliver voters from hunger or fear among other material benefits, then the ultimate claim of the vote as a vehicle to deliver the democratic ideals of freedom evaporates. It is from this logic that ...
285
A challenge for liberal democracy: How to understand the Russian intervention in Ukraine. Bertelsmann Policy Brief, 16.10.2014
... be liberal democracies to effectively support Ukraine in creating functioning demo cratic institutions and implementing the rule of ...in liberal democracy in the coun ...
14
RETHINKING THE CONCEPT OF EQUALITY IN LIBERAL DEMOCRACY
... that liberal democracy assumes that the state should interfere as little as possible within the personal sphere of an individual so as to endow them with as much freedom as possible to carry on their life ...
10
Asian Values and Liberal Democracy
... Western liberal democracies are characterized by constant power struggles between parties and dynamic politics, a Confucian society aims to stabilize society and establish solidarity between the rulers and ...the ...
28
A Cultural Challenge to Liberal Democracy in Southeast Asia? IHS Political Science Series No. 53, February 1998
... a democracy a risky venture, due to the danger of communists and communalists exploiting racial divisions and religious ...in democracy – where governments can change – had to be warded off, and organized ...
52
The challenges facing the Dutch Reformed Churches in the South African liberal democracy
... Mere majority rule in a democracy has also proved to be inadequate and even detrimental to the protection of minority rights. A clear example is the exploitation of white farmers in 2000 in the ’democracy’ ...
7
Three models of democracy : intellectual and moral foundations of liberal democracy and preconditions for its establishment in contemporary China
... It may be argued by paternalistic leaders that freedom is nothing more than a means to promote the individual's interests, and there are values such as equality, justice and security which are more important than ...
354
Attractions and Limitations of Liberal Democracy in Africa
... of liberal democracy to a dizzying ...that democracy is a precondition for development therefore stands defected at least in the African context (see Ake, 1996; 1995; ...
26
Public reason secularism : a defense of liberal democracy
... political liberal convergence approach that Gaus has adopted and ...political liberal convergence approach is their objection to the consensus approach’s insistence on the shareable public reason ...
245
Developing Democracy Through Liberal International Law
... of liberal values has now become embedded in international ...of democracy in Honduras and the Ivory Coast, ...a liberal international law to which the raison d’être is the promotion of ...
25
Revisiting Liberal Democratic Universalism: A Critical Rhetoric of the Liberal Democratic World Order
... the liberal era in order to understand liberal political philosophy shows that Western values shape the liberal democratic theory that are promoted to be universal ...that liberal ...
15
From evaluating democracy assistance to appraising democracy promotion
... towards democracy promotion are crucially important to help mini- mise the potentially high costs of avoidable policy ...the democracy promoter’s reputation, but the dashed hopes and disappointments in ...
33