liberal democracy

For years now, the Right has tried to insist that the war on terror is akin to World War II, a battle for the survival of of the American way of life and the liberal democracy.

Mission Orders: Deployed Until Mission Is Complete Matt Johnston 2007

And not surprisingly, Israel is a liberal democracy.

Mesopotamia West 2009

Live among Israel's Palestinian minority for even a short time and one is forced to abandon the widely accepted notion of Israel as a liberal democracy.

Palestine Blogs aggregator 2008

If the university is indeed the product of the Enlightenment and is its visible presence in modern democracy, and if Enlightenment was a political project that undertook to alter the age-old character of the relation between wisdom and power, knowledge and society, it might be suspected that the crisis of knowledge that has become politically useful—i.e., the crisis of the university—and the crisis of liberal democracy, the political order dependent on knowledge, have something to do with the new relationship between the two promoted by Enlightenment.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

If the university is indeed the product of the Enlightenment and is its visible presence in modern democracy, and if Enlightenment was a political project that undertook to alter the age-old character of the relation between wisdom and power, knowledge and society, it might be suspected that the crisis of knowledge that has become politically useful—i.e., the crisis of the university—and the crisis of liberal democracy, the political order dependent on knowledge, have something to do with the new relationship between the two promoted by Enlightenment.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

The Conservative party’s seizure of the progressiveagenda and the rhetoric of liberal democracy suggests that Cameron intends to build a broad coalition.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

The Conservative party’s seizure of the progressiveagenda and the rhetoric of liberal democracy suggests that Cameron intends to build a broad coalition.

Mandelson: I would work with the Tories 2009