Another expert, Nick Welch, a consultant on carbon capture projects, said, "If you were really serious about getting on with this stuff, even in the complex democracy that we live in, you might find a way of getting through all this".
Secularism is the only way to stop collapse and chaos and to foster bonds of citizenship in our complex democracy.
The risks involved in conducting a presidential election with flakey technology in one of the globe's largest and most complex democracies were amply displayed in 2000.
It is simply the formidable magnitude of the terrorist threat that seems now to loom over all free, open and complex democracies.
But how much aid and protection a society should provide, given the costs, is ultimately a complex choice for democracies.
We may interpret Arrow's initial result as demonstrating, for direct democracy, a complex incompatibility between the Pareto criterion and several other axioms including non-dictatorship, the axiom of minimal self-governance.
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These few requisites of a procedural nature must not deceive us, for, to be fully satisfied, they require powers, institutions, and articulate, consolidated processes, which show that democracy is a complex political regime.
Tunisia's Islamic democrats led by Ennahdha realised that laying the foundations of a democracy in a complex transitional phase requires renunciation of the logic of majority vs minority and widening the power base as far as possible through the art of political compromise.
