Fishkin cites extensive empirical support for the increase in public spiritedness that is often caused by participation in deliberation, and says theoretical support can be traced back to foundational democratic thinkers such as John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville.

The leaders expanded their five-member council by two seats to include a longtime Baghdad lawyer, Nasir al-Chadirchy, whose father, Kamel, was a leading democratic political thinker in Iraq during the 1950's and founder of the National Democratic Party of Iraq.

While members of Meirokusha finally advocated harmonization of the government and people, democratic thinkers absorbed radical people's rights from France and they supported national resistance and revolution verbally against the Meiji oligarchy after the Satsuma Rebellion.

Many of those closest to the band say they are attracted to the Grateful Dead because they are 1960's thinkers, democratic and anticommercial, more interested in performing than recording and devoted to each other and to their symbiotic relationship with their fans.

Louis Kugelmann, or Ludwig Kugelmann (February 19, 1828, Lemförde - January 9, 1902 Hannover) was a German gynecologist, social democratic thinker and activist, and confidant of Marx and Engels.

Dr. Planish summed it up in a private memo to the Colonel: "All ordinary citizens, especially those west of Buffalo, need instruction and direction in becoming thoroughly democratic from trained thinkers like ourselves.

He was a leading social democratic thinker, publishing The Future of the Left: Lincoln and After in 1974.

I am a fan of ED Hirsch and Lindsay Paterson, two great social democratic thinkers on education.

His emphasis on minimizing harm and maximizing happiness in his formulation of the Ethic of Reciprocity was later picked up by the democratic thinkers of the French Revolution, and others, like John Locke, who wrote that people had a right to "life, liberty, and property."

Su Shaozhi, one of the leading democratic thinkers within the Communist Party in the 1980's, who now lives in exile in the United States, observed, "In mainland China and other leading post-Communist socialist countries, Marxism-Leninism has become a sham ideology causing a crisis of faith."