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Definition: Social Democracy |
Social DemocracyNoun1. The belief in a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism by democratic means. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Children | Mexico | In August 2000, the President's Office announced that 90,000 children with disabilities were integrated into a regular education system between 1994 and 2000. In December 2000, the President established the Citizen's Commission Against Discrimination to be headed by former Social Democracy Party presidential candidate Rincon Gallardo. (references) |
Economic History | Romania | The FDSN became the Party of Social Democracy of Romania (PDSR) in July 1993. The Vacaroiu government ruled in coalition with three smaller parties, all of which abandoned the coalition by the time of the November 1996 elections. (references) |
Poland | In December 1989, the Sejm approved the government's reform program to transform the Polish economy rapidly from centrally planned to free-market, amended the constitution to eliminate references to the "leading role" of the Communist Party, and renamed the country the "Republic of Poland." The Polish United Workers' (Communist) Party dissolved itself in January 1990, creating in its place a new party, Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland. (references) | |
Human Rights | Equatorial Guinea | In 2000 District Judge Jose Luis Abaga Nguema reportedly raped Milagrosa Obono Ndong, a Convergence for Social Democracy Party (CPDM) voting station representative, during her detention in Evinayong. (references) |
Romania | There was no further information in the November 2000 killing of Sorin Moldovan, deputy chairman of the Hunedoara County branch of the Party of Social Democracy (PSD), who was killed by an unknown assailant. (references) | |
Political Economy | Egypt | According to its Constitution, Egypt is a social democracy in which Islam is the state religion. (references) |
Political Rights | Romania | In November and December 2000, in elections that were judged to be generally free and fair, the left-center Party of Social Democracy (PSD) won a near majority in the legislature and the PSD candidate, Ion Iliescu, won the Romanian presidency. (references) |
Congo | Major political parties included the ruling Congolese Workers' Party, the Panafrican Union for Social Democracy, the Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integrated Development, the Union for Democracy and the Republic, the Rally for Democracy and Social Progress, and possibly as many as 200 others; however, all generally were ineffective. (references) | |
Travel | Sweden | Perhaps due to the Swedish tradition of social democracy or the great egalitarian concerns, Swedish managers are more consensus builders than decision-makers. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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social democracy | 14 |
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| Language | Translations for "social democracy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Finnish | sosiaalidemokratia. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Sozialdemokratie. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 社会民主主義 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゃかいみ"しゅしゅぎ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | deynlaghys soshialagh. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ocialsay emocracyday social-democraţie. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-c-d-e-i-l-m-o-o-r-s-y" | |
-4 letters: acrylamides. | |
-5 letters: acclaimers, acrylamide, crocodiles, cycloramas, cycloramic, macroscale, microcodes, microscale, miscolored, myocardial. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-c-d-e-i-l-m-o-o-r-s-y" | |
+3 letters: mucopolysaccharide. | |
+4 letters: mucopolysaccharides. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 63 69 61 6C 44 65 6D 6F 63 72 61 63 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01100011 01101001 01100001 01101100 00100000 01000100 01100101 01101101 01101111 01100011 01110010 01100001 01100011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o c i a l   D e m o c r a c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0063 0069 0061 006C 0044 0065 006D 006F 0063 0072 0061 0063 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5381697567782387179816984676991 |
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