Sentence examples for interpretation of democracy from inspiring English sources

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.

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).

This development of the Frankfurt School interpretation of the limits on democracy as an ideal of human freedom was greatly influenced by the emergence of fascism in the 1930s, one of the primary objects of their social research.

The report's conclusions propose a national framework of entitlements, values and goals, including broad curricular guidelines; and strong decentralisation, allowing space for local autonomy, interpretation and innovation — and, therefore, the practice of democracy.

No matter if the scenery toppled, if the pioneers tripped in their boots, if the dogs barked and bayed; the audience had been treated to a concise restatement of what was then a dominant interpretation of the rise of American democracy — that it was fuelled by the settling of the frontier and that it chiefly involved the hardscrabble striving of poor white men.

The understanding of democracy so far outlined informs Schmitt's interpretation of the Weimar constitution (Dyzenhaus 1997, 38 101; Caldwell 1997, 85 119; Scheuerman 1999, 61 84; Hofmann 2002, 117 52; Kennedy 2004, 119 53).