Sentence examples for democracy deficit from inspiring English sources
The root of China's social illness is still the "democracy deficit" created by the absolute power of the party.
You moan about the EU's democracy deficit, yet you want member states to ram through economic liberalism that most Europeans do not want.
Now it's making a comeback with them, too, thanks to the growing democracy deficit in the European Union generally, and in Spain specifically.
This democracy deficit will always be the source of social instability, exactly the thing Chinese leaders, new and old, have so desperately tried to avoid.
Let's take those charges in turn: Democracy deficit: To be sure, the Fed suffers from one, but that is by design.
In 2013 she launched a tour titled Save Democracy from Politics, during which she encouraged discussion of the "democracy deficit" that she alleged had been created by the country's first-past-the-post electoral system at townhall meetings across Canada.
As Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary-General at the time, wrote last year, "Violent extremism tends to thrive in an environment characterized by poor governance, democracy deficits, corruption and a culture of impunity for unlawful behavior engaged in by the State or its agents".
In Attention Deficit Democracy, Berger proposes remedying this by appealing to "widespread tastes," which can both seize citizen attention and motivate action.
Ultimately, Rudd and Gillard bled authority as if from an open wound and undermined public confidence in our democracy – and bequeathed deficits as far as the eye can see.
