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| | Liberal democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | They would argue that 'liberal democracy' does not respect majority rule (except when citizens are asked to vote for their representatives), and also that its "liberty" is restricted by the constitution or precedent (in the UK) decided by previous generations. | | | In the American political tradition, the purpose of a constitution is often seen as a limit on the authority of the government, and American ideas of liberal democracy are influenced by this. | | | Some of these democracies have additional systems of referenda to give the electorate a possibility to overrule decisions of the elected legislature or even to make decisions by plebiscite without giving the legislature a say in that decision. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy
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| | Liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Some economic liberals would accept government restrictions of monopolies and cartels, others argue that monopolies and cartels are caused by state action. | | | Key liberals of this persuasion, such as John Dewey, John Maynard Keynes, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, argued for the creation of a more elaborate state apparatus to serve as the bulwark of individual liberty, permitting the continuation of capitalism while protecting the citizens against its perceived excesses. | | | The rule of law and equality before the law are fundamental to liberalism. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism
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| | Abdoulaye Wade (2003) - Prize For Freedom - Politics - Liberalism |
| | He worked as a barrister at the Court of Appeal and was appointed Dean of the faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Dakar. | | | This years Liberal Internationals Prize for Freedom has been awarded to Maitre Wade, President of Senegal, to honour his lifelong achievements in pursuit of liberal democracy in Senegal. | | | Maitre Wade was a pioneer of opposition politics in Senegal and founder and leader of the Senegalese Democratic Party. |
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http://www.liberal-international.org/editorial.asp?ia_id=693
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| | The Rise of Illiberal Democracy by Fareed Zakaria |
| | The tension between constitutional liberalism and democracy centers on the scope of governmental authority. | | | In almost all of its variants, constitutional liberalism argues that human beings have certain natural (or "inalienable") rights and that governments must accept a basic law, limiting its own powers, that secures them. | | | Until 1991 it had never held a meaningful election, but its government epitomized constitutional liberalism, protecting its citizens' basic rights and administering a fair court system and bureaucracy. |
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http://www.fareedzakaria.com/articles/other/democracy.html
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| | Netanel, Cyberspace Self-Governance: A Skeptical View from Liberal Democratic Theory |
| | They argue, for example, that rule of a territorial representative democracy over cyberspace belies the liberal democratic principle of "government by the consent of the governed." n42 But for the most part, the cyberian project is a neoliberal one. | | | For cybersyndicalists, no less than for cyberpopulists, the key to individual liberty and consent in virtual communities is the relative ease with which a dissenter may exit her current community and join or establish another more in line with her preferences or values. | | | A political fount of this claim is that cyberspace offers unique possibilities for private ordering that more fully embody the democratic liberal ideals of individual liberty and government by the consent of the governed than does the representative democracy of territorial nation-states. |
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http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/Contract/Netanel_Full.html
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| | Liberal Democracy |
| | Nineteenth century liberals were aware of the importance of opinion as the basis for public order -- especially the opinions that respect for property is right, and that it is in the interest of all. | | | T.B. Macaulay, later Lord Macaulay, famous as an essayist, historian and politician, was one of the leading liberals of the first half of the 19th century. | | | The prime function of the Senate, to strengthen the power of the upper classes, is in a Federal system combined with a function easier to defend, that of protecting the rights of the states. |
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http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/Ockham/y67xb.html
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| | Communal Democracy and Liberal Democracy in the Jewish Political Tradition |
| | The proof of the pudding is that in Western civilization the Bible is considered the foundation of democratic republicanism and has been so treated by democratic reformers throughout the history of the Western world. | | | Thus when it comes to the popular constitution of the polity, the responsibility of the governors to the governed, and a proper separation and distribution of powers among the governors -- the three great criteria for democracy -- the Jewish polity passes every test. | | | All these must be reflected in political practice. |
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http://www.jcpa.org/dje/articles/commdem-jpt.htm
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| | IslamicaMagazine - The Limitations of Liberal Democracy |
| | This may help explain why liberal democratic nations fail to act when faced with the atrocities of genocide in another part of the world. | | | How far is liberal democracy willing to go to establish justice as a universal principle? | | | That a nation cannot act to prevent genocide except when those actions result in tangible financial or political gain leaves us in a sorry state. |
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http://www.islamicamagazine.com/content/view/43/109
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| | The International - Liberalism |
| | Liberalism champions the freedom, dignity and well-being of individuals. | | | This means that Liberals want neither a market where freedom is limited by monopolies or an economy disassociated from the interests of the poor and of the community as a whole. | | | Liberal International is the world federation of liberal political parties. |
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http://www.liberal-international.org/editorial.asp?ia_id=508
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| | Robin Wright "Islam and Liberal Democracy: Two Visions Of Reformation" |
| | The state should be run by whoever is popularly elected on the basis of equal rights under law. | | | In their own way, some even resemble Catholic "liberation theology" movements in their attempts to use religious doctrines to transform temporal life in the modern world. | | | Soroush supported Iran's 1979 revolution and took an active role in revising university curricula during its early years. |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/rwright.htm
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| | The Clash of Islam and Liberalism |
| | In an unmitigated and fantastic succession of blunders, miscalculations, vain promises, unkept threats and unkempt diplomats - it has driven the world to the verge of war and the regions it "adopted" to the threshold of economic and social upheaval. | | | The same can be said about Democratic Liberalism. | | | At the end of the Cold War, Democratic Liberalism stood triumphant over the fresh graves of its ideological opponents. |
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http://samvak.tripod.com/islam.html
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| | Amazon.com: The Liberal Model and Africa: Elites Against Democracy: Books: Kenneth Good |
| | "The Liberal Mode and Africa: Elites Against Democracy delivers a searching, powerful and innovative critique of liberal democracy, notably as it has arrived in Southern Africa." --Roger Southall, Department of Politics, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa | | | Botswana is an established liberal democracy in existence since pre-independence elections in 1965. | | | "This is indeed a useful and timely contribution to the democracy debate in Africa." --Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Botswana |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0333790421?v=glance
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| | Nepal Study Center |
| | Why did several political leaders frequently mock and sometimes defy the Supreme Court decisions?: Note | | | This open access system is linked to approximately two hundred universities and numerous library systems around the world. | | | Appendix –2: A Challenge for Political Parties to Create a Conducive Environment for Peace and Democracy in Nepal (Kul Chandra Gautam) 25 |
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http://nepalstudycenter.unm.edu/journals/LDNB/issues.htm
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| | Liberal Democracy |
| | Liberal Democracy is a phrase often used to describe Western democratic political systems, such as Australia, the United States, Britain, New Zealand, Canada and other nations. | | | Prohibitions should exist for the general good and there should be respect for political and civil liberties. | | | Accordingly, liberal democracies are organised in such a way as to define and limit power in order to promote legitimate government within a framework of justice and freedom: |
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http://www.australianpolitics.com/democracy/liberal-democracy.shtml
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| | Liberal Democracy |
| | Effective guarantees of freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, petition and of equality before the law are indispensable to a democratic system of government. | | | The state must have a degree of economic stability. | | | Politics, parties and politicians are the catalytic agents that make democracy workable. |
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http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/liberal_democracy.htm
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| | IslamOnline - Contemporary Section |
| | In its broadest terms, liberal democracy refers to the limitations and locus of state power respectively. | | | The secular state reduces religion to the level of opinion, leading gradually and inevitably to the secularization of human consciousness. | | | The liberal democratic discourse, as the political manifestation of the predatory Western epistemology behind the veil of freedom, is in effect a consciousness imposition and therefore, by definition, a dominative project. |
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http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2002/05/article1-b.shtml
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| | Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts - Democracy Lab: Liberal Learning for Strong Democracy |
| | The National Study of Liberal Arts Education is a multi-institution, longitudinal study of the effects of American higher education on liberal arts outcomes. | | | We encourage research universities, regional universities, liberal arts colleges, community colleges, and other institutions of higher education to apply now to participate in this groundbreaking study. | | | Strong democracy, as illuminated in Benjamin Barberâs classic work of the same name, expects attentiveness, public spiritedness, and action from the general citizenry, not just from a political leadership class. |
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http://liberalarts.wabash.edu/home.cfm?news_id=2422
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| | Amazon.ca: Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy: Books |
| | According to Holmes, three elements of classical liberal theory are commonly used to attack contemporary liberalism as antagonistic to genuine democracy and the welfare state: constitutional constraints on majority rule, the identification of individual freedom with an absence of government involvement, and a strong emphasis on the principle of self-interest. | | | By restricting the arbitrary powers of government officials, Holmes states, a liberal constitution can increase the state's capacity to focus on specific problems and mobilize collective resources for common purposes. | | | Holmes argues that the aspirations of liberal democracy--including individual liberty, the equal dignity of citizens, and a tolerance for diversity--are best understood in relation to two central themes of classical liberal theory: the psychological motivations of individuals and the necessary constraint on individual passions provided by institutions. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226349691
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| | 11/19/02 - Abolishing the Nation-State: Liberal Democracy’s Final Hour? |
| | Differences of opinion within homogeneous nation states have often challenged consensual government, with bitter divisions erupting in national strikes and political violence. | | | Liberal democracy is a creation of the nation state and is unlikely to persist in the emerging multi-cultural empires. | | | Having lost its national identity to hyphenated populations, the U.S. can only respond to terrorism with constitutionally suspect legislation, which permits officials to set aside civil liberties, and by empowering a Department of Homeland Security to keep a dossier on every citizen. |
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http://www.vdare.com/roberts/final_hour.htm
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| | SSRN-Richard Rorty's Postmodern Case for Liberal Democracy: A Critique by George Bragues |
| | Rather than proving its superiority, Rorty merely aims to persuade his readers of liberal democracy's appeal. | | | Liberal democracy, the combination of a representative polity and a market economy, was originally founded on the belief in moral absolutes - that is, on the idea that human beings intrinsically bear rights of freedom and equality against the state. | | | Rorty, too, ignores the growing evidence in favor of a partially fixed human nature, gives too much credence to social democratic economics, while vainly trying to ennoble the self-absorption that liberal democracy inevitably encourages and tolerates by passing it off under the exalted guise of self-creation. |
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=756909
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| | Cross-National Indicators of Liberal Democracy, 1950-1990 |
| | Compulsory membership in state organizations and political parties and compulsory religion in schools are addressed as well. | | | civil rights, constitutions, democracy, economic indicators, freedom, government, government performance, nations, political issues, political participation, political parties, social indicators, world politics | | | This study, a collection of crossnational measures of political democracy, contains over 800 variables for most of the world's independent countries. |
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http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/02532.xml
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| | Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Nationalism |
| | Mazzini is perhaps the premier representative of Liberal Nationalism. | | | Liberal Nationalism: The Nation as a Basis for Liberal Democracy | | | Both Romantic "identity nationalism" and Liberal "civic nationalism" were essentially middle class movements. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook17.html
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| | Radical Challenges to Liberal Democracy |
| | Thus the government must be such that it cannot arbitrarily deprive one of life, liberty, or property. This fosters a relationship between contracting citizens and a government limited by the contract. | | | Bearing in mind this history of Tocqueville, we can more readily comprehend his commentary on the original revolution, and there is no better place to begin our search than with the passage in his Recollections in which he discusses an episode with his man-servant, Eugène [pp. | | | [15] James MacGregor Burns, The Deadlock of Democracy; four party politics in America. With revisions. |
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http://msu.edu/~allenwi/chapters/Radical_Challenges_to_Liberal_Democracy.htm
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| | SSRN-Legitimate Punishment in Liberal Democracy by Sharon Dolovich |
| | Having established this perspective, and its consistency with the basic liberal ideals of moral equality and individual sovereignty, I then go on to determine the principles of punishment that would be selected by parties deliberating under these conditions and would thus constitute the terms of legitimate punishment in liberal democracy. | | | I do so because I share Rawls' view that, if the exercise of state power in a liberal democracy is to be legitimate, it must be justifiable in terms that all members of society subject to that power would accept as just and fair. | | | Rawls' deliberative model was originally intended for questions of ideal theory, on which all members of society are assumed to act justly towards others. |
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=503468
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| | Good News for Liberal Democracy: Defending Freedom since 1968 |
| | Good News for Liberal Democracy: Defending Freedom since 1968 | | | He had no idea what he was talking about, and obviously never made the effort to find out all the good news about Liberal Democracy. | | | to promote and defend Liberal Democracy here and now |
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http://www.goodnewsforliberaldemocracy.org
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| | Find in a Library: A Prospect of liberal democracy |
| | Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Bicentennial Committee : distributed by University of Texas Press, ©1979. | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. | | | Find in a Library: A Prospect of liberal democracy |
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http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/03f8541b6aa55fc8.html
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| | AUSTRAILIA’S LIBERAL DEMOCRACY |
| | Ruddock has also gone so far as to dispute the Medical Journal of Australia’s findings regarding mental effects on the lives of children and adults in these detention centers. | | | [5]” The extreme lack of civil treatment to refugees makes a depressing statement of what it should be to be classified as a liberal democracy. |
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http://students.washington.edu/llf2/finalproject.htm
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