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- noun Plural form of
democracy .
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Examples
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While in democracies, where the government cannot so easily control how the population acts, it is more important to control how the population thinks.
Is Pacifism A Sham? John Storhm 2009
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While in democracies, where the government cannot so easily control how the population acts, it is more important to control how the population thinks.
Archive 2009-03-01 John Storhm 2009
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They take from Brazil's experience the reassuring lesson that globalization can be steered -- by sensitive technocrats in democracies -- to produce measurable gains in export revenue and electoral stability.
Jeffrey W. Rubin: The Roots of Brazil's Success Jeffrey W. Rubin 2010
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It seems to happen more in democracies where varieties of viewpoints are expected and even welcomed.
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It seems to happen more in democracies where varieties of viewpoints are expected and even welcomed.
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The rise of powerful industrial corporations and the rise of a large public sector in democracies over the past 150 years are results of changes in technology.
Technological Determinishm, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Nevertheless, it has gradually been able to undo a great deal of official persecution in democracies in the space of only a couple of decades.
Capitalism, Democracy, and Polygamy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Our “cooperation” with Canada or the EU, for instance, involves all kinds of loosely-codified exchanges that are based not on different aspects of state activity but on civil society and strictly private activities: that adds up to a bigger realm in democracies, again by definition, than it does in most dictatorships.
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For generations (actually, for millenia) homosexuals have been persecuted both in democracies and nondemocracies ...
Capitalism, Democracy, and Polygamy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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At least in democracies, they will increasingly become the credible, neutral parties that monitor compliance with fiscal norms, cost out initiatives, evaluate impact, and validate forecasts -- credit rating agencies do some of this, but lost credibility during the crisis.
Otaviano Canuto: The Day After Tomorrow: Fiscal Quality Otaviano Canuto 2010
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