Collocations with democracy

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mockery of democracy
It makes a mockery of democracy, shared decision-making and the internal market.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
modern democracy
Every modern democracy has elected legislatures and political parties, each of which is a vehicle for a specific type of representation.
multi-party democracy
All three countries underwent an electoral transition to multi-party democracy during the last decade but their political trajectories have since diverged.
notion of democracy
The meaning of democracy as promoting freedom is more prevalent among citizens than is the notion of democracy as providing the rule of law, or equality or majority rule.
parliamentary democracy
In domestic politics, he feared nothing so much as the break-down of parliamentary democracy and civil war.
participatory democracy
Both advocated ' participatory democracy ' as a corrective to the excessive power of political party bureaucracies that failed to represent popular interests.
pillar of democracy
What this means is that we have to get the fourth pillar of democracy, the fourth of the four powers, the media, more involved.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
pluralist democracy
It worked in favour of multi-factions that involved some kind of pluralist democracy.
pluralistic democracy
Oligarchic institutions (like medical self-regulation) are thus coming under challenge from a more pluralistic democracy, while demands are no longer checked by deference to expertise.
principle of democracy
That would violate a central principle of democracy, namely, equal citizenship (anonymity of the voter).
pure democracy
In addition, she observes that the collision between feudalism and nascent democracy can result in either absolutism or pure democracy, rendering revolutionary intervention by the disenfranchised classes a probable event.
representative democracy
Substantial shades are evident about the ways in which participation by outlets of organized civil society co-exist with representative democracy.
restoration of democracy
The restoration of democracy has not produced a clear-cut division between democratic and non-democratic countries, but rather a wide variety of semi-democratic, semi-authoritarian regimes.
restoring democracy
The coalition played down class and redistributive themes and underscored the desirability of restoring democracy.
return of democracy
Combined with the return of democracy to those countries is the introduction of liberal economies, privatisation and the opening up of markets.
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