Challenging theories that trace the protests to the rise of a global middle class, Krastev proposes that the insurrections express a pervasive distrust of democratic institutions.
The second half of the 20th century was an age of binary choices: the era of the cold war and a pervasive sense of democratic crisis, inflamed by ideas of workers' control and elected judges.
WASHINGTON -- In a vain effort to shift beltway attention away from budgets and deficits to pervasive economic misery, Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin held a hearing Thursday to highlight the struggles of the American middle class.
The International Monetary Fund was yet to sound an alarm that sluggish post-GFC growth and pervasive income inequality was making democratic societies unstable and politics dysfunctional.
As if that weren't dejecting enough, most of my fellow Americans believe that our founding fathers and mothers would be ashamed of what we've wrought today -- the pervasive sentiment is that our democratic republic would be unrecognizable to them, and not in a good way.
The pervasive influence of corporate cash in the democratic process, and the extraordinary lengths to which politicians, lobbyists and even judges go to solicit money, are laid bare in sealed court documents leaked to the Guardian.
Citizen enforcement is cheaper to the taxpayer, more democratic, and allows for LESS pervasive and permanent federal bureaucracy to monitor, regulate, and enforce environmental, health, and safety rules.
In the process, Mr. Stockman accurately portrays the pervasive dishonesty and small-bore thinking behind both Democratic and Republican "leadership".
Some argue that there is a fundamental duty of equal respect for the opinions of others that grounds democratic decision making in the context of pervasive disagreement (Singer 1974; Waldron 1999).
The California Assembly will hold public hearings next month to address sexual harassment in the Capitol, Democratic lawmakers announced Tuesday, as allegations of pervasive mistreatment continue to ripple through Sacramento.
