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 | | In Swiss politics, concordance system (German Konkordanzsystem) refers to the presence â since 1952 â of all of the four major parties in the Federal Council, a system that was originally forced on the parliament electing the council by the direct democracy of Switzerland, where a sizeable opposition could in principle paralyse... |
 | | Inclusive democracy is a new conception of democracy, which, using as a starting point the classical definition of it, expresses democracy in terms of direct political democracy, economic democracy (beyond the confines of the market economy and state planning), as well as democracy in the social... |
 | | Ralph Naders Concord Principles [1] were offered in 1992 as an invitation to the Presidential candidates to improve civic dialogue and the democratic institutions of the U.S. They are written as 10 pleas intended to avert a trend of corporatism in government, plutocratic influence, banal sloganistic elections, power... |
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