Trying to construct a democracy without demos is artificial and will not solve the legitimacy problem.
In contrast to Chile, South Africa or Argentina, "there were no hearings, no truth commissions and no formal process of reconciliation beyond the business of constructing a new democracy".
Founded in 1980 as a new party of the left committed to working-class mobilisation, participatory democracy and structural economic change, the PT played a big part in ending Brazil's military regime of 1964-85 and in constructing a new democracy.
For the first time since the nineteen-fifties, an Arab population will try to independently construct a constitutional democracy from scratch.
His 2008 book, "Democratic Authority," tried to construct a philosophical justification for democracy, a feat that he thought could be achieved only by balancing two propositions: democratic procedures tend to make correct policy decisions, and democratic procedures are fair in the eyes of reasonable observers.
For citizens in the exciting/terrifying position to construct a brand-new government, American-style democracy is one of many options.
A DISCOVERY made by Joseph Bonanno when he was quite young was that in a democracy it is possible to construct a criminal organisation largely immune from the law.
We constructed a series of binary variables to isolate different characteristics of democracy as defined in the Democracy-Dictatorship dataset developed by [26].
Together with the other broader-minded Finns, the new partnership constructed a Finnish compromise which eventually delivered stable and broad parliamentary democracy.
Samaras, the New Democracy leader, said he had "returned the mandate", abandoning the attempt to construct a parliamentary majority.
