America's politicised form of evangelicalism is uninterested in the ideals of common democratic purpose.
People seem to be in agreement both that local journalism serves an important democratic purpose and that it is — at least in its current form — doomed.
With fewer than 12percentt of registered Democrats, for example, participating in this year's New York primary, primaries clearly do not serve their intended democratic purpose.
More generally, perhaps, we should review the principle that greater transparency always serves a democratic purpose, no matter how intuitively correct it might seem.
And they serve a useless, if entirely democratic, purpose of letting off electoral steam and airing prejudices, and prolonging the suspense as to whom, really, the majority of the French would like to see in the Élysée.
In November 1935, Reith noted telling Guglielmo Marconi that "I had always admired Mussolini immensely and I had constantly hailed him as the outstanding example of accomplishing high democratic purpose by means which, though not democratic, were the only possible ones".
