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KENYA: Resounding Yes to New Constitution - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    Jubilant supporters say it is a new dawn for Kenya. Sixty-seven percent of votes cast endorsed a new constitution more than two decades after reform was first raised. Speaking to IPS soon after the results were announced, Senior Counsel Paul Muite, a for
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Freedom for Sale: Why the World Is Trading Democracy for Security John Kampfner - 0 views

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    head of the Index on Censorship, which is Britain's leading organization promoting freedom of expression. We are delighted that he has chosen the Carnegie Council to discuss his new book, Freedom for Sale: Why the World Is Trading Democracy for Security.
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Support for Women Officeholders in a Non-Arab Islamic Democracy: The Case of Indonesia ... - 0 views

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    Recent work argues that the relationship between Islamic faith, the lack of support for gender equality and democratization is spurious. This paper analyzes the correlates of individual support for increasing the number of women serving in Indonesian legi
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Social news, citizen journalism and democracy -- Goode 11 (8): 1287 -- New Media & Society - 0 views

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    This article aims to contribute to a critical research agenda for investigating the democratic implications of citizen journalism and social news. The article calls for a broad conception of 'citizen journalism' which is (1) not an exclusively online phen
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The Democratic Insect: Productive Swarms -- Dubois 20 (23): 36 -- differences - 0 views

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    How does the insect swarm serve as a figure for humanity? In recent formulations by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, the swarm buzzes for the anonymous multitude, achieving creative solutions to humankind's problems "through collective and distributed tec
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GENDER: Laws, Budgets and Pigeonholes - Part 1 - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    The fight for women's rights came about hand in hand with the struggle for democracy, civil rights and national liberation in different countries and periods, says Ines Alberdi, executive director of UNIFEM
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Democratic Values and Public Opinion Toward Immigrants: The Case of Ecuador Latin Ameri... - 0 views

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    Scholars of support for democracy traditionally have been concerned with its causes, with the assumption that higher citizen support for democratic values will enhance democracy's chances of survival in a country. Beyond this fundamental proposition, howe
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Latin America: The New Neoliberalism and Popular Mobilization - Socialism and Democracy - 0 views

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    By breaking the spell of neoliberal triumphalist discourse that for almost a decade paralyzed broad sectors of the left, subaltern mobilization has created the conditions for the re-emergence of progressive forces. Electoral successes of these forces were
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PERU: Priest on Campaign Trail Defrocked - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    LIMA, Mar 18, 2010 (IPS) - A priest who is touring the country in his bid to run for president next year, at the head of a leftist movement, was indefinitely suspended by the Catholic Church for getting involved in politics. Banned from exercising any pr
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Would autocracies promote autocracy? A political economy perspective on regime-type exp... - 0 views

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    Non-democratic regional powers are increasingly blamed for authoritarian backlashes in formerly democratising countries, or for the persistence of entrenched autocratic regimes in their neighbourhood. Yet there is a striking scarcity of theoretical delibe
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Promoting Democracy with Neither State Nor Security: U.S. Democracy Promotion Efforts i... - 0 views

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    Democracy promotion in the Middle East has been a foreign policy imperative for every U.S. President for the past three decades. Geoffrey Swenson details the aspirations, projects and outcomes of U.S. - funded democracy building efforts in the Palestinian
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THE SHIFTING CROSS-MEDIA NEWS LANDSCAPE - Journalism Studies - 0 views

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    The article offers new insights for democracy and for news producers by mapping the use and users of today's cross-media news landscape, as the everyday consumption of news across the range of available news media and formats is shifting reflecting transf
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Power and Democratic Weakness: Neoconservatism and Neoclassical Realism -- Caverley 38 ... - 0 views

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    While realists and neoconservatives generally disagreed on the Iraq invasion of 2003, nothing inherent in either approach to foreign policy accounts for this. Neoconservatism's enthusiasm for democratisation would appear to distinguish the two but its rej
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Un-contented characters: an education in the shared practices of democratic engagement ... - 0 views

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    How should children be educated for democratic politics in ways that do not undermine their diverse needs, ideas, and interests? The dual challenges for a democratic theory of education are, first, to protect the pluralism of the young from standardizatio
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Public Space as Emancipation: Meditations on Anarchism, Radical Democracy, Neoliberalis... - 0 views

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    In establishing an anarchic framework for understanding public space as a vision for radical democracy, this article proceeds as a theoretical inquiry into how an agonistic public space might become the basis of emancipation. Public space is presented as
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Explaining mass support for democracy in Hong Kong - Democratization - 0 views

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    This article aims to identify the main causal factors that underlie the overall levels of mass support for democracy in Hong Kong in the light of two approaches of comparative politics. Using a common questionnaire in 2003, 2005, and 2008, analyses of the
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Transition or development?: reassessing priorities for law reform -- Glinavos 10 (1): 5... - 0 views

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    This article enquires into the implications the modern literature on economic development emanating from international institutions has for law reform and the role of the state in the economy. The main question asked is whether regulation has a uniform ro
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    For a leader like Rudd, a constructive multilateralist with an accommodating professional style, the Commonwealth way of diplomacy should be productive and the issues relevant to Australia's immediate foreign policy interests include the need to build a c
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Electoral Process, Democracy and Governance in Africa: Search for an Alternative Democr... - 0 views

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    In search for answers to what is wrong and where to locate what is wrong with African democracy, this paper attempts to establish the validity of the nexus between elections, democracy and governance in Africa. The paper further argues that the feasibilit
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Global Environmental Politics - Environmental Space as a Basis for Legitimating Global ... - 0 views

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    The notion of environmental space, based on the principles of environmental limits and sharing environmental resources equitably, offers a starting point for a positive approach to the global "return of scarcity" challenge, notably by providing a basis le
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