Sentence examples for interpretation democracy from inspiring English sources

His interpretation: Democracy comes from "demos" (Greek for people) and "cracy" (Arabic for chairs) -- the masses (or people) sitting on the chairs of power.

He is now arguing that Albanians must wonder what is the point of voting at all, if a Macedonian gets to choose which Albanian party keeps him in power.Mr Ahmeti's anger is not just about his interpretation of democracy.

Schmitt's conception of the political grounds a distinctive interpretation of democracy and constitutionalism in the domestic sphere.

Morsi's insistence to the bitter end that he was a legitimately-elected leader reflected the same majoritarian interpretation of democracy displayed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his response last month to mass protests.

Drawing on public opinion data from the World Values Survey and various national polls, we show that the success of anti-establishment parties and candidates is not a temporal or geographic aberration, but rather a reflection of growing popular disaffection with liberal-democratic norms and institutions, and of increasing support for authoritarian interpretations of democracy.

This allows for the interpretation that democracies find it easier to transfer knowledge out of PPPs than autocracies.

Legacy political families have created an oligarchical interpretation of American democracy.

One of the tragedies of the Egyptian Arab Spring is that so many mistakes have been based on misguided interpretations of what democracy should be.

The state, founded in 1921, contained two distinct communities with mutually conflicting interpretations of what democracy meant, each of which had perfectly rational reasons for fearing the dominance of the other.

Such interpretations of epistemic democracy rely on what David Estlund calls "the correctness theory of democratic legitimacy" (Estlund 2008: 99).

Thus, the role of judges in interpretation is essential to democracy.