The phrase "condition of democracy" is correct and usable in written English.
You may use it whenever you need to discuss the circumstances or requirements necessary to maintain a democracy. For example, "Advocates of democracy argue that respect for basic human rights and a vibrant civil society are essential to the condition of democracy."
Free speech – free expression – remains a necessary condition of democracy.
In other words, an informed public is a necessary condition of democracy, but not a sufficient one.
Effective decentralisation and democracy are closely connected; decentralisation is a condition of democracy, but democracy is also a condition for effective decentralisation — or local autonomy.
The earlier views emphasized the socialist significance of education as condition of democracy in the form of informed participation and of cooperation, since 'successful collaboration is possible only when those who act fix on one possibility, whether by agreement or by propaganda' (Neurath 1928/1973, 293).
The standard thing to say about Occupy, that it has "changed the discourse" by raising attention to inequality, economic power, and the tattered condition of democracy, is basically right.
They are people who were born and raised in conditions of democracy.
This power of preserving the sources of popular sovereignty alone makes it worth while to keep direct democracy going under routine conditions of democracy.
The Ugandan government is relying more on China for development assistance, especially for infrastructure projects, because Beijing does not impose the same conditions of democracy and human rights on its aid as traditional donors.
Even President Bush's guru on these issues, Natan Sharansky, who wrote a book that was very influential on Bush's thinking, said to me, when I was in Jerusalem last week, that the only way for this all to work is to create the conditions of democracy, and elections are only a part of that — and they're not necessarily the first part.
Rather, the critic seeks to promote just those conditions of democracy that make it the best available process upon the adequate reflection of all those affected.
This Reflection on Europe argues that Europe needs to establish a new democratic equilibrium and that businesses can play a fundamental constructive role to achieve this new equilibrium by actively designing core internal and external business activities to be conducive to key enabling conditions of democracy.
