Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] political [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This consciousness leads only to social democratic forms of political organization , and accepts that political change has to be achieved through the mechanisms of representative politics .
2 The constitutional framework reflects and sustains that political culture by providing an almost paralysed political system that sets one branch against another and hamstrings those who aspire to lead .
3 Among the republican and provincial LCs there existed , however , deep divisions , most notably between the radical reformist Slovene LC , which advocated a full multiparty democracy and the transformation of the LCY into a loose confederation of independent republican parties , and the hardline Serbian LC , which sought to retain " democratic centralism " and warned that political pluralism translated into a full multiparty system would be exploited by nationalists seeking the fragmentation of the country .
4 But it has been argued here that we should go further than that , and recognize that political democracy itself has not been realized simply by giving every adult person a vote in general and local elections .
5 Edward Shils contended that " pluralistic politics ' was " marked … by the moderation of political involvement " , and prohibited emotional intensity " .37 Others went further still , and suggested that political apathy might " reflect the health of democracy " ( Lipset ) , or praised it as " a more or less effective counter-force to the fanatics who constitute the real danger to liberal democracy " .
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