Sentence examples for democratic conception from inspiring English sources

There are other pressures on the traditional social democratic conception of the state, such as the ageing society and changing demography that will not disappear.

But at the heart of the problem is something that I have written about before: the absence in Israeli law of an inclusively democratic conception of citizenship, let alone democratic criteria for immigration.

This does seem to be moving towards a genuinely democratic conception of legitimate authority.

The democratic conception of authority requires each person to submit issues to a democratic vote.

The democratic conception might provide the basis of the authority of the assembly while the authority of courts and administrators may be more instrumentally grounded.

Finally it discusses the democratic conception of authority according to which the democratic assembly has legitimate political authority within certains limits because it treats every citizen as an equal in the process of making law.

According to that doctrine, which lies at the core of the liberal-democratic conception of the state, the state's territory is properly conceived of as the territory of the people as a whole, not just those who at a particular time happen to reside in a portion of it.

How democratic this conception is depends on how we understand property in Locke's discussion.

In fact, "Greece" cannot be excised from the self-conception of "Europe" just as "Europe" cannot be excised from the modern democratic self-conception of "Greece".

Yet as the emperor Charles V ruefully acknowledged, it was the older building's seemingly endless forest of arches, expressing a much more democratic, non-hierarchical conception of the relationship between a worshipper and his god, that came out the winner.

The resulting conception of democratic legitimacy regards democratic decisions as legitimate if they are the outcome of a deliberative decision-making process that satisfies some conditions of political and epistemic fairness (Peter 2008).