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2.1 Define liberal democracy and explain why each part of the definition is central to the concept. 2.2 Describe a variety of governmental, electoral, party, and territorial systems, their incentive structures, and how political leaders earn positions of power in each.
7 Δεκ 2021 · Democracy describes either a set of political institutions or an ideal of collective self-rule. Democracy can also be short for a normative principle of either legitimacy or justice. Finally,...
Democratic Ideal Tibor R. Machan these daysalmost everybody believes in democracy. But not everybody agrees on just what democracy is. Literally, the term means “the rule of the people.” Demos is Greek for “people,” and kratos is Greek for strength or power, derivatively, “rule.” Hence, democracy empowers the people to rule.
Democracy requires that each individual be free to participate in the political community’s self-government. Thus political freedom lies at the heart of the concept of democracy. The overall concept of modern democracy has three principal parts: “democracy,” “constitutional-ism,” and “liberalism.”
Discussing International Standards for Democratic Governance (2007), funded by the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and available at: http://www.democracy-reporting.org/files/standards_go.pdf
Adopts the following Universal Declaration on Democracy and urges Governments and Parliaments throughout the world to be guided by its content: The principles of democracy 1. Democracy is a universally recognised ideal as well as a goal, which is based on common values shared by peoples through
Democracy makes the people the rulers, and legitimacy derives from their consent. In Abraham Lincoln’s stirring words from the Gettys-burg Address, democratic government is “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
