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词汇 democracy
释义 democracy
noun
uk /dɪˈmɒk.rə.si/ us /dɪˈmɑː.krə.si/
B2[ U ]
the belief in freedom and equality between people, or a system of government based on this belief, in which power is either held by elected representatives or directly by the people themselves: 民主;民主思想;民主政体
The government has promised to uphold the principles of democracy.政府承诺将坚持民主的原则。
The early 1990s saw the spread of democracy in Eastern Europe.20世纪90年代初,民主思想在东欧迅速传播。
B2[ C ]
a country in which power is held by elected representatives: 民主国家
Few of the Western democracies still have a royal family.西方民主国家鲜有保留皇室者。
A strong opposition is vital to a healthy democracy.有一个强大的反对党对于健康的民主制度来说非常重要。
There cannot be true democracy without reform of the electoral system.不进行选举制度的改革就不可能有真正的民主。
Sweden is often held up as an example of a successful social democracy.瑞典经常被视为社会民主主义的成功典范。
The recent free elections mark the next step in the country's progress towards democracy.最近的自由选举表明该国又朝民主迈进了一步。
Western governments should be giving more aid to the emerging democracies of the Third World.西方政府应给予第三世界新兴的民主政权更多的援助。
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democracy | American Dictionary


democracy
noun[ C/U ]
us/dɪˈmɑk·rə·si/
politics & government
the belief in freedom and equality between people, or a system of government based on this belief, in which power is either held by elected representatives or directly by the people themselves
politics & government
A democracy is a country in which power is held by elected representatives.

democracy | Business English


democracy
noun
uk /dɪˈmɒkrəsi/us
[ U ] WORKPLACE, MANAGEMENT
a situation, system, or organization in which everyone has equal rights and opportunities, and can help make decisions:
corporate democracy
shareholder democracy
[ U ] POLITICS
the belief that everyone in a country has the right to express their opinions, and that power should be held by people who are elected, or a system of government based on this belief:
The country was celebrating its return to democracy.
[ C ] POLITICS
a country in which power is held by people who are elected:
It is now a stable, well-governed democracy.

See also


industrial democracy
workplace democracy

Examples of democracy


democracy
Advocates of market liberalization commonly worry that democracies will eschew economically rational policies because voters cannot tolerate short-term pain on the promise of long-term gain.
The demand for redistribution is fairly inelastic across industrialized democracies.
Further, while the number of new parties decreases gradually as democracies age, the support for new entrants follows no clear unidirectional pattern across time.
Establishing whether democracies adopt similar growth strategies is important : the economic strategies chosen by governments can have serious implications for income distribution and human welfare.
Moreover, my calculations of consensus democracies from the late 1960s to 1990 are not closely associated with neo-corporatism.
Such developing democracies clearly represent promising territory for research on the political impact of television.
To date, this coding procedure has been applied to over 1,500 programmes, in about thirty democracies, during the post-war period.
We tested this assertion on 113 elections in thirteen democracies.
The culmination of a decade-long process of harmonization and negotiation, this invitation symbolized the success of these countries in instituting political democracies and market economies.
Electoral democracies now represent 120 of the 192 existing countries and constitute 62.5 percent of the world's population.
We expect that the more advanced democracies will have mass publics who are negative to a situation where religion plays an important role in politics.
The directive for emerging democracies is clear - promote democratically oriented parties and citizen participation in these parties.
In most parliamentary democracies, single parties are unable to command a majority of support in the legislature.
Finally, he finds evidence that new democracies with low levels of initial political competition are also more likely to meet with civil conflict.
Why do new parties keep emerging and winning votes in new democracies?
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Collocations withdemocracy


democracy

These are words often used in combination with democracy.

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advanced democracy
I am reminded that that is indeed one of the outcomes of advanceddemocracy.
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bourgeois democracy
French bourgeois democracy is preparing to assassinate the proletariat.
concept of democracy
For example, a particular conceptofdemocracy was, in fact, part of communist philosophy.
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