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Middle East Democracy Promotion Is Not a One-way Street - Carnegie Endowment for Intern... - 0 views

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    o have a chance at impacting political reform in the Middle East under the present circumstances, the Obama administration should open a dialogue with governments in the region, modeled on the Helsinki process that was used to improve relations with the S
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Democracy and education in a multicultural Scandinavia: what mandate is designated to e... - 0 views

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    This paper investigates how education legislation in Denmark, Norway and Sweden define democracy, especially in relation to a complex society with diverse linguistic, religious and cultural practices. What tasks are assigned to educators through education
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Democratization in the Arab World: Relevance of the Turkish Model -- Mohapatra 45 (4): ... - 0 views

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    The article argues that the Turkish experience with democracy may not offer a 'model' for democratization of the Arab states in West Asia and North Africa. It begins with a brief account of institutional and political changes in Turkey since the establish
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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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Democracy's Friend or Foe? The Effects of Recent IMF Conditional Lending in Latin Ameri... - 0 views

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    Structural adjustment is commonly prescribed as a condition for receiving loans from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, but the effects of structural adjustment and conditionality are controversial. While much research has been devoted to
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How the Military Competes for Expenditure in Brazilian Democracy: Arguments for an Outl... - 0 views

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    Comparative analysts argue that democracies spend less on military policies than authoritarian states, a claim that was applied to Brazilian electoral democracy by Hunter (1997). In fact, Brazil behaves as an outlier and military spending has continued to
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State Capacity, Democracy, and the Violation of Personal Integrity Rights - Journal of ... - 0 views

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    While a large literature explores the effect that regime type has on personal integrity rights violations, few studies have explored a state-centric approach to understanding these violations. I develop an argument that focuses on the leaders of the state
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Deliberative Democracy and Inequality: Two Cheers for Enclave Deliberation among the Di... - 0 views

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    Deliberative democracy grounds its legitimacy largely in the ability of speakers to participate on equal terms. Yet theorists and practitioners have struggled with how to establish deliberative equality in the face of stark differences of power in liberal
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Power in Transition: An Interdisciplinary Framework -- Avelino and Rotmans 12 (4): 543... - 0 views

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    This article conceptualizes power in the context of long-term process of structural change. First, it discusses the field of transition studies, which deals with processes of structural change in societal systems on the basis of certain presumptions about
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Review Symposium: Historic settlements and new challenges: Veit Bader, Secularism -Ethn... - 0 views

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    In his important new book, Veit Bader defends an 'associational democracy' (AD) approach to the governance of religious diversity, one that would involve creating a significant degree of 'institutional pluralism'. This pluralism would be manifested at var
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Bringing climate change into global governance | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - 0 views

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    Climate change will undoubtedly affect the lives and lifestyles of nearly every person who inhabits the planet. But although climate change is a global issue, today's international institutions are incapable of managing such a complex and far-reaching pro
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Social movements and political opposition in contemporary Thailand - The Pacific Review - 0 views

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    There is an underlying optimism in much of the literature that considers the emergence of social movements as being associated with deepening processes of democratization. The expansion of civil society is seen to expand political space. This paper takes
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Of Minutemen and Rebel Clown Armies: Reconsidering Transformative Citizenship - Text an... - 0 views

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    What does it mean for progressive performance activists to use citizenship as an animating rhetoric? To address this question, I examine the activist tactics of two ideologically opposed groups: the civilian border-watch organizations known as Minutemen a
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Conclusion: religion, democratization and secularization - Democratization - 0 views

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    The overarching theme of this special issue was the attempts by various religious actors - Christian, Muslim, and Jewish - to try to assert their values and pursue their goals in variable political circumstances. We saw that they sought to do this in cont
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The problematic nature of religious autonomy to minorities in democracies - the case of... - 0 views

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    This article focuses on the ambivalent effect of religious autonomy in India and the outcome for democracy in the country. The Indian constitution guarantees autonomy to its religious minorities, and promises the minorities the freedom independently to ma
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The Fethullah Gulen movement and politics in Turkey: a chance for democratization or a ... - 0 views

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    Since 1923 the official ideology of republican Turkey has been strictly secular. However religious networking has always been a very important component of the socio-structural system in the country. Over time, the republican regime sought to stifle devel
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Islam and democratization in Turkey: secularism and trust in a divided society - Democr... - 0 views

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    The history of Turkish modernization has been inextricably linked with the question of secularism. From the advent of the Turkish Republic in 1923, Islam was held responsible for the underdevelopment and eventual demise of the Ottoman Empire. Based on the
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Spiritual capital and democratization in Zimbabwe: a case study of a progressive charis... - 0 views

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    Throughout Africa, charismatic Christianity has been caricatured as an inhibitor of democratization. Its adherents are said either to withdraw from the rough and tumble of politics ('pietism') or to preach a prosperity gospel that encourages believers to
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Democratization in Israel, politicized religion and the failure of the Oslo peace proce... - 0 views

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    While the positive relationship between democracies and peace is by now a commonplace of international relations (IR) literature, the possible dangers of democratization processes for international peace and security have only recently become a focus of I
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The multi-faceted role of religious actors in democratization processes: empirical evid... - 0 views

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    The article comparatively investigates the role of religious actors in the democratization processes of five 'young' democracies from the Catholic, Protestant, Christian-Orthodox and Muslim world: West Germany after World War II (1945-1969), Georgia and U
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