a democracy based on the recognition of individual rights and freedoms, in which decisions from direct or representative processes prevail in many policy areas
Examples of 'liberal democracy' in a sentence
liberal democracy
Without the strongest liberal democracy taking the lead?
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
The populist uprising sweeping through liberal democracies is not driven by radicalism but by a desire for reassurance.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
In modern liberal democracies, comedians are free to express themselves politically.
Smithsonian Mag (2017)
Back in 1989 we thought we were witnessing the triumph of capitalism and liberal democracy.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Their drug of choice was Marxism and under its influence they argued that liberal democracy was a capitalist con.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The fact that this is happening in a great liberal democracy like France makes me want to weep for humanity.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
One evolved into a prosperous liberal democracy.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Liberal democracy husbands the freedom in which the arts can flourish.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Liberal Democracy cannot be a struggle between those who wish to modernise and those who do not.