"democracy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- So a formal democracy, in which the people or the people's representatives appeared to rule, might conceal a very undemocratic distribution of actual power.
- Instead, they encouraged him to take further steps in the direction of the "formal democracy" he scorns.
- After twenty years of dictatorship under the Marcos regime, formal democracy in the Philippines was restored in 1986 through a broad "people power" movement.
- This concept is a merely formal one, he identifies, because this could be achieved through dictatorship, democracy, or any other means.
- The country was also a prime example of a formal democracy with legally limited participation.
- Behind the guise of formal democracy, military leaders make all important decisions, and they respond to direction from the United States Embassy.
- In terms of formal democracy, Brazil has reached a satisfactory level.
- Facing this creative task, appeals of foreign parties to formal democracy remain naive, light-minded and irresponsive.
- It has failed to offer social and economic programs that work and, after three years of formal electoral democracy, the average Salvadoran feels worse off.
- After independence, however, the interests of different factions within the Indian bourgeoisie could be articulated through the institutions of formal democracy.
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