Introduction: What Is Democracy? 1
damental principles, not uniform practices Core Democratic Characteristics Democracy is government in which power and civic responsibility are exercised by all adult citi-zens, directly, or through their freely elected rep-resentatives Democracy rests upon the principles of majority rule and individual rights Democracies guard
DEMOCRACY: ITS PRINCIPLES AND ACHIEVEMENT
be exercised under conditions of freedom, equality, transparency and responsibility, with due respect for the plurality of views, and in the interest of the polity 2 Democracy is both an ideal to be pursued and a mode of government to be applied according to modalities which reflect the diversity of experiences and cultural particularities
Charter on Democracy
Principles Article 3 State Parties shall implement this Charter in accordance with the following principles: 1 Respect for human rights and democratic principles; 2 Access to and exercise of state power in accordance with the constitution of the State Party and the principle of the rule of law; 3
Democracy and development - University of Michigan
definition of democracy in these terms: A democracy is a polity in which collective decisions (laws, policies, procedures) are the expression, direct or indirect, of the preferences and choices of the collection of equal citizens of the polity Democracy thus pertains to the self-rule of a politically constituted
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
the general equality of conditions " He referred, doubtless, to social and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are described as "We, the people," in the opening sentence of the Constitution The last three amendments of the Constitution have so changed this, that those who were then negro
Democracy and Development: A Complex Relationship by I
freedoms, a democracy which ensures these freedoms is, almost by definition, more conducive to development on these counts than a non-democratic regime We may, however, choose to look at freedoms as potentially instrumental to development, as is usually the case in the large empirical literature that aims at finding a statistical
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of people still living under conditions of tyranny As of 2008, 34 of the world’s 6 68 billion population lived in countries designated as “Not Free,”3 that is, areas with extremely restricted political rights and civil liberties The 42 countries in the “Not Free” category are
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
II Conditions for the Success of the Democratic Method 289 III Democracy in the Socialist Order 296 PART V: A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF SOCIALIST PARTIES 303 Prologue 305 XXIV The Nonage 306 XXV The Situation that Marx Faced 312 XXVI From 1875 to 1914 320 I English Developments and the Spirit of Fabianism 320 II
BenjaminBenjamin ConstantConstant
www unmondelibre Bibliothèque de la liberté BenjaminBenjamin ConstantConstant Principes de politiquePrincipes de politique Paris : Guillaumin, 1872
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