In a democratic system, politicians win elections by doing what attracts the most votes.
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Because when you mix all of these energetic, high-aspiring people with a democratic system and free markets, magic happens.
Urdu paper Mashriq hoped that politicians will take efforts to avoid causing any harm to the country's democratic system.
Millions of Iraqis went to the polls to cast ballots, something that generated great promise for the establishment of a democratic system.
Thank God for the checks and balances built into our democratic system.
India, with its messy democratic system, might well have staying power, but no one sees it as a threat to the United States.
The public demanded -- and had a right under our democratic system to expect -- from the U.S. government a vigorous and meaningful response.
President Obama came to power amid promises of sweeping reform in energy, healthcare, and financial markets, modeled in many ways after the European social democratic system.
That the Egypt-educated cleric has survived it and emerged victorious is a testament to his politicking skills, as well as to the quirks of Indonesia's democratic system.
For all the flaws in India's democratic system, however, most middle-class Indians remain proud that their country can claim to be a rare democracy in the third world.
According to Mr Mogra, these include - respect for other people and the rule of law, freedom of expression and religious practice, participation in the democratic system and valuing education.
"It is a very democratic system and a bad Syiem is punished by the darbar, " explains Stephen Mohlong, a 67-year-old farmer, one of the rifle-wielding guards during the ceremonial procession.
As a former head of the constitutional court and as the main architect of the new democratic system in Hungary after 1990, this bird knew the lie of the land like no other.
Two months later, Mr Kabila and the rebels are supposed to have integrated their forces into a new Congolese army and be sitting down together to discuss a new democratic system for Congo.
Democracies are most effective when people not only vote for them, but embrace their responsibilities under a democratic system -- when they commit to be active citizens, aware citizens, when they participate, when they vote.
But in a democratic capitalist system, seemingly improbable ideas can come to fruition.
The number-one concern of most elected officials in a democratic political system is how to preserve power by getting re-elected.
The vote is expected to be a barometer measuring Vision 2030's ability to create a truly democratic political system respecting the rule of law and protecting the rights and freedoms of all Kenyans.
During their policy conference in May 1992, the ANC made specific commitments to education in South Africa, inter-alia, provision of a minimum of 10years free and compulsory education, provision for those with special learning needs, improving educational quality, ensuring education for young people expelled or having dropped out of school as a consequence of apartheid, provision of adult education, leading to the establishment of a single non-racial, equal and democratic education system.
Legal though they are, Super PACs are nonetheless a perversion of our democratic and constitutional system.
Without such restrictions, many consumer advocates say the Internet will change from being an open, democratic network to a closed system, as NPR's Laura Sydell reports.
This democratic informality eschews the star system for what the principals speak of as "normality" and "restraint, " qualities notably absent in today's culture, although no one could call their buildings understated.
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The philosophical way that Bush should sell his tax-cut extension is to remind us that democratic capitalism is the most moral system yet invented.
We welcomed positive steps being taken in Myanmar that could facilitate national reconciliation, and encouraged further progress towards a democratic and open political and economic system.
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For instance, one way to pay for bringing the uninsured into the health-care system (a noble Democratic priority) is to scrap a distorting tax-deduction that veils the true cost of health insurance, a policy espoused by John McCain last year.
"The good news is that in New Hampshire, there's a verifiable voting system, " says New Jersey Democratic congressman Rush Holt.
The Morrill Act represents a dramatic and necessary change to the face of the American education system by making it much more democratic.
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, a potential rival for the Democratic nomination, has called for the current system for distributing these grants to be abolished.
That trajectory should be a cautionary tale to Americans who are watching the U.S. government careen toward a system that is every bit as socially democratic as Spain's.
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They welcome Britain's first-past-the-post electoral system precisely because it creates stable, democratic government invulnerable to the uncertain coalitions that "fairer" voting systems have inflicted on countries like Holland.
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