The phrase "democratic consciousness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an awareness or understanding of democratic principles and values within a society or individual.
Example: "The rise of social media has significantly influenced the development of democratic consciousness among younger generations."
Alternatives: "democratic awareness" or "civic consciousness."
This "increasing democratic consciousness", they say, calls for new trails to be blazed in political reform.
First came the challenge of creating a democratic consciousness in Japan.
First, because it's happening in immature democracies, where the media is oligarchic and under state manipulation, graft is endemic and levels of democratic consciousness and traditions are low.
Wang Yang, Guangdong's party chief, who is believed to be a contender for a senior Politburo position this year, said the incident demonstrated how people's "democratic consciousness" was getting stronger.
An article widely carried on state media websites said the contest had caused Chinese intellectuals to "fantasise about arrangements for democratic elections and notice the awakening of democratic consciousness among the younger generation".
This moment on an ersatz street in the capital of make-believe underscored one real-life, if largely unspoken, truth about the couple that have dominated Democratic consciousness for almost a decade.
The traditions of democratic self-governance are powerful in our civics textbooks and in popular consciousness.
Scott's Robin Hood is not a story of derring-do in Sherwood Forest, nor is it of merry chaps in Lincoln green outsmarting the vile sheriff of Nottingham; it's a story of dispossession and rebellion that manages to cleverly link together most of the seemingly irreconcilable elements of the Hood myth, and wrap it all up in a warm, fuzzy ball of pro-democratic class consciousness.
It cut to the chase instantly, it mimicked the media-glutted state of general consciousness, it was democratic - sort of.
It is questionable whether this consumer consciousness ever really became a democratic pressure for political reform, as Kotkin appears to suggest.
