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Bill Brydon

Exploring USAID's democracy promotion in Bosnia and Afghanistan: a 'cookie-cutter appro... - 0 views

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    US democracy promotion is integral to the pursuit of the grand project of the American Mission. By promoting democracy America makes its role one of international engagement as opposed to one of isolation. The first part of this paper examines the politic
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Political and ideological aspects in the measurement of democracy: the Freedom House ca... - 0 views

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    While several studies have dealt with methodological aspects of measuring democracy, little attention has been devoted to the political and ideological issues that affect the construction and structure of these measuring instruments. The aim of this study
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Consolidating democracy in Ghana: progress and prospects? - Democratization - 0 views

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    In the light of the successful and peaceful outcome of the December 2008 elections in Ghana, inclusive of the second transfer of power between political parties since the return to democratic rule in 1992, this paper considers whether Ghana can now be reg
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Informal politics and the uncertain context of transition: revisiting early stage non-d... - 0 views

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    This article examines the genesis and influence of informal politics on non-democratic outcomes in Central Asia. As opposed to current scholarship which explains the emergence of informal politics as a result of kinship-based cultural legacies, this work
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Risking civil war by promoting democracy Snyder Mansfield - 0 views

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    Promoting democracy abroad may seem like a good way to promote peace. Mature, stable democracies have not fought wars against each other, and they rarely experience civil wars. But the path to a democratic peace is not always smooth. Democratic transitio
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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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Space, Water, Memory: Slavery and Beaufort, South Carolina -- Richards 21 (3): 255 -- C... - 0 views

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    This article explores the tension between place, space, and memory as they relate to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and are enacted in the arena of tourism. Tourism seeks to produce an appealing, easily narrativized experience that distinguishes one local
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Personality and Political Tolerance: The Limits of Democratic Learning in Postcommunist... - 0 views

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    Can all citizens learn political tolerance through engagement in democratic politics? The lack of direct experience with democratic processes may account for a portion of the tolerance gap between mass publics in established and new democracies and sugges
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Structuring Transnational Spaces of Identity, Rights and Power in the Niger Delta of Ni... - 0 views

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    This paper critically examines the ways in which global-local flows interpenetrate each other and mesh, simultaneously undermining and empowering the forces of local resistance, using the Niger Delta as a case study. It explores the response of local resi
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Unpolitical Democracy -- Urbinati 38 (1): 65 -- Political Theory - 0 views

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    This paper analyzes critically the appeal the unpolitical is enjoying among contemporary political philosophers who are democracy's friends. Unlike a radical critique of democracy, what I propose to call "criticism from within," takes the form of dissatis
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    News that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps is withdrawing a billion dollars from the country's Foreign Reserve Fund in order to complete Phases 15 and 16 of the gigantic South Pars gas project has generated concern among Iranian analysts, who believe the
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Constitution-writing in deeply divided societies: the incrementalist approach... - 0 views

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    The article addresses the puzzle of how societies still grappling over the common values and shared vision of their state draft a democratic constitution. It argues that an incrementalist approach to constitution-making enabled such deeply divided societi
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Expanding the concept of participatory rights - The International Journal of Human Rights - 0 views

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    There has been a lack of analysis of the relationship between participation and human rights concerning the purpose and content of a right to participation. What analysis exists tends to focus on rights of political participation. However, the concept of
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The 'problem' with youth: young people, citizenship and the community - Citizenship Stu... - 0 views

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    Fears that we are experiencing a crisis in citizenship have been increasingly directed towards youth. Popular political and government rhetoric has frequently positioned young people as a threat to the healthy functioning of citizenship and democracy. Pol
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Democracy and noncitizen voting rights - Citizenship Studies - 0 views

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    The boundaries of democracy are typically defined by the boundaries of formal status citizenship. Such state-centered theories of democracy leave many migrants without a voice in political decision-making in the areas where they live and work, giving rise
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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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    Choice, in our Webby world, may be one click away. Representative, elected democratic policy-enactment is a far clunkier, compromised, and beset process. Pundits in early America worried that the novel would make readers "unrealistic" in their expectat
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Rethinking State-building in a Failed State - Washington Quarterly - 0 views

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    Instead of repeatedly trying to foist a Western style top-down state structure on Somalia's deeply decentralized and fluid society, the international community needs to work with the country's long-standing traditional institutions to build a government f
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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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Ashes from the phoenix: state terrorism and the party-list groups in the Philippines - ... - 0 views

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    An ongoing theme in Filipino history has been the exclusion of the left from electoral politics. Something that may provide an aperture facilitating left-wing participation are the provisions of the 1987 Constitution providing for the election, based on p
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