The phrase "thought of democracy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's perspective or consideration regarding democracy.
Example: "Her thought of democracy was shaped by her experiences in different political systems."
Alternatives: "concept of democracy" or "idea of democracy".
Far from shrinking at the thought of "imposing" democracy on African countries, the West might realize that in the 1990's, unlike the independence era 40 years ago, when brand-new African countries inherited Western-style constitutions but little in the way of Western education or expertise, the push for democracy in Africa is home-grown and comes from the ground up.
A renowned political theorist — especially for her expertise in the history of political thought, history of democracies, and Greek and Roman political history — Allen is currently the UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.
Indeed, Derrida continues, "in a modern sense... the thought of a cosmopolitical democracy perhaps presupposes..
Now that Saddam is gone, we have to hope "that a new generation will grow up with enough rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of thought and democracy that it will be able to overcome the culture of brutality that Saddam instilled," said Joseph Sassoon, the Baghdad-born author of "Iraqi Refugees" and an adjunct professor at Georgetown.
Both understood the vital importance of reading and critical thought to the process of democracy.
Pondering the reasons, in the aftermath of World War I, for Germany's disastrous estrangement from the ethical, political, and social thought of the Western democracies, he put high on his list the glorification of the state at the expense of the rights and dignity of the individual.
The essential theme of the articles, novels, poems, and dramas composed by these authors is their fatherland (vatan), and they dared to advocate freedom of thought, democracy, and constitutionalism.
Deftly integrating the ideas of such thinkers as Rousseau, Kant, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Paine, and the Marquis de Condorcet with her own, Urbinati constructs a thought-provoking alternative vision of democracy.
Michael Joseph Smith, a political science professor at the University of Virginia, said that strong democracies "haven't given enough thought to maintenance and sustaining of democracy".
The political effects of oil have long been central to the analysis of the Persian Gulf and the broader Middle East, with the rents that accrue from oil thought to retard the development of democracy and to enable the construction of large, fierce security establishments to preserve autocratic power.
