Sentence examples for representative politics from inspiring English sources

Despite the rise of social media, the established media continues to define the scope of representative politics in Britain, to shape political demands and to punish and erase those who resist.

Mr Salmond said the north east of Scotland had been his "political home" since he entered representative politics.

Representative politics has to be responsive to the desires of the community, and political movements have to represent the cross-section of views that exist in the electorate.

The first two modes of redistribution occur through representative politics and through technocratic implementation.

Traditional representative politics is failing to adapt fully to the modern world," says spokesman Will Brett.

It was after that meeting with him that I was persuaded to enter representative politics, as a Tory.

A quarter century removed from the "Year of the Woman" — the 1992 election that dramatically increased the numbers of female representatives — politics remains difficult to navigate for women.

He is the author of Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment (Harvard University Press, 2006) as well as articles on political rhetoric and deliberation, the meaning of representative government, the relationship of politics and religion, and the place of emotions in political life.

Representative democracy — politics by proxy — is gradually losing meaning.

Runciman added: "Old people are currently the coalition that have a huge inbuilt advantage in representative democratic politics.

Both?The larger point, though, is that calls for OWS activists to settle down and get busy with the humdrum mechanics of representative democratic politics misunderstand who many of these activists are, and what they want out of democratic political engagement.