The established, institutionalized set of beliefs about democracy that dominate political discourse—the often-unexamined assumptions that elections confer legitimacy, that representation works, that majority rule is just, that democratic procedures produce good outcomes, and that liberal democracy is the end of political history. Democratic orthodoxy includes commitments: that voting is the primary political act, that citizens are informed and rational, that elected officials represent their constituents, that checks and balances prevent tyranny, that democracy and capitalism are compatible, that alternatives to democracy are authoritarian. Like all orthodoxies, it provides a framework for political understanding, but it functions as ideology—making particular democratic arrangements seem natural and inevitable, obscuring democracy's limitations (exclusion, inequality, corporate power, voter manipulation), and delegitimizing critiques that question whether current institutions are truly democratic. Democratic orthodoxy determines what political arrangements are considered "legitimate," what reforms are "realistic," and who counts as a "good democrat" versus a threat to democracy.
Example: "He couldn't see how campaign finance makes a mockery of representation—not because he'd examined the evidence, but because democratic orthodoxy had made him believe that elections automatically produce democracy. The orthodoxy's power is making the form feel like the substance."
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"World democratic centralism is advocated by left world federalists and by several world federalists who agree there should be a party system at world level such as have a centralized world administration for deal with the world as a unified country where it is becoming necessary nowadays."
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Like the democratization of music, the democratization of Singapore math ought to force math educators in the city-state to embrace the courage imperative, by turning barriers into breakthroughs, or obstacles into opportunities, if they want to maintain an asymmetric advantage over their counterparts in other high GDP economies.
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Example: "He couldn't see how liberal democracies might themselves be sites of oppression—not because he'd examined the question, but because liberal democratic orthodoxy had made critique of democracy itself unthinkable. The orthodoxy's power is making its objects immune to fundamental critique."
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