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Democratizing state-religion relations: a comparative study of Turkey, Egypt and Israel... - 0 views

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    This article examines the complex relationship between state, religion and democratization in Turkey, Egypt and Israel. It demonstrates that binary and static models of separation and integration between state and religion are not sufficient to understand
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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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Defending Democracy: The Concentric Containment of Political Extremism - Political Studies - 0 views

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    In this article we develop a concentric containment policy for dealing with political extremism starting from the deliberative model of democracy. This model of democracy is particularly well suited because it overcomes the traditional opposition between
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Democratic Melancholy: On the Sacrosanct Place of Democracy in Radical Democratic Theor... - 0 views

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    In recent years radical democracy has become a prominent perspective in contemporary political theory. However, radical democracy involves numerous theoretical arguments and interpretations of democracy as can be witnessed in the work of some theorists wh
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International Crisis Group - B22 Venezuela: Accelerating the Bolivarian Revolut - 0 views

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    President Hugo Chávez's victory in the 15 February 2009 referendum, permitting indefinite re-election of all elected officials, marked an acceleration of his "Bolivarian revolution" and "socialism of the 21st century". Chávez has since moved further away
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Democratizing Global Governance? Non-State Participation in the World Bank Inspection P... - 0 views

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    This article discusses the role non-state actors may play in the democratization of global governance. It is argued that the nature of international power in a globalizing world requires a redefinition of democracy that is more expansive than the traditio
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Corruption's Challenge to Global Governance: A Selective Balance Sheet New Global Studies - 0 views

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    Democracy is generally considered to be the most successful form of government. Yet we remain uncertain about its relationship to modernization. What is essential is not democracy but good governance, according to Alexander Pope's challenge. Political Ela
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Global governance in the context of climate change: the challenges of increasingly comp... - 0 views

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    It is well-acknowledged that there is an imbalance between the existing structures and processes for global governance and the threats that the world is facing to its environment and natural resources. When swift responses to risk and uncertainty are requ
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De-Territorializing Labor Law -Law & Ethics of Human Rights - 0 views

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    Labor law was traditionally a domestic project, defined on the basis of a geographic territory or a synthetic community; its norms were determined by the state and applied to employers and workers who resided within the state. Commonly, labor law is admin
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Small Axe - Lyonel Trouillot, or The Fictions of Formal Democracy - 0 views

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    Jean-Bertrand Aristide was re-elected president of Haiti in 2000, with a massive parliamentary majority. My book Damming the Flood (2007) tried to explain how and why his government overthrown, several years later, in an internationally-sponsored coup-d'é
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Violence and Methodology: Reading Aristide in the Aftermath of 2004 - 0 views

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    This article analyzes the topic of dictatorship, political violence, and popular struggle in two recent works that treat the rise and fall of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide: Alex Dupuy's The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the
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Small Axe - Aristide and the Politics of Democratization Nick Nesbitt - 0 views

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    The contemporaneous publication of Alex Dupuy's The Prophet and the Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Peter Hallward's Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment in 2007 marks a watershed in contemporary Haitian Studies. Together,
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The Idea of Power and the Role of Ideas - Daniel Béland - Political Studies R... - 0 views

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    Since the mid-1970s, the social science debate over the meaning of the idea of power has intensified. Offering a critical discussion of the work of Steven Lukes, this brief article puts forward an amended definition of political power before exploring the
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Democracy's Labor: Disjunctive Memory in a Bolivian Workers' Union -- Albro 36 (5): 39 ... - 0 views

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    Despite recent constitutional reforms, Bolivian democracy struggles to reconcile the inclusive rhetoric of state reform, the expansion of rights, and special attention to previously ignored groups, on the one hand, with continued poverty, inequality, and
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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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Global Environmental Politics - On the Modern and the Nonmodern in Deliberative Environ... - 0 views

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    The "deliberative turn" in green political theory and applied environmental decision-making is now well-established. However, questions remain about the applicability of its concepts and methods to non-Western or "nonmodern" contexts, to use a term from G
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Global Environmental Politics - The Fragmentation of Global Governance Architectures: A... - 0 views

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    Most research on global governance has focused either on theoretical accounts of the overall phenomenon or on empirical studies of distinct institutions that serve to solve particular governance challenges. In this article we analyze instead "governance a
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Tunisia: beyond illusions of change | open Democracy News Analysis - 0 views

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    The certain victory of a long-term president in a sham election is a routine occurrence in the Arab world. But Tunisia's governance model and international outlook make it a special case, says Amel Boubekeur.
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Fair distribution of welfare gain: application of the equity principle in forming inter... - 0 views

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    International institutions play the major role in the current global governance to provide global public goods (GPG) efficiently and to regulate cross border externalities (CBE) effectively. Also there are many international institutions. But the global c
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The 'popular democracy vs. civil society' debate in Taiwan revisited - Journal of Polit... - 0 views

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    This paper begins with delineating the emergence and transformation of the discourses of 'popular democracy', and the formulation and debate over 'civil society'. This is followed by an account of the subsequent incorporation of social movements and the a
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