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Bill Brydon

Reasonable, agonistic, or good?: The character of a democrat -- Fives 35 (8): 961 -- Ph... - 0 views

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    Postmodernists reject what they call the universalist-rationalist framework of liberalism. When they do defend liberal democracy, they do so in a contextualist manner (within a 'form of life') and on the basis of contestation ('agonism'). Liberals are rig
Bill Brydon

From neo-corporatism to delegative corporatism? Empowerment of NGOs during early democr... - 0 views

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    Great attention has been paid to the role of various nongovernmental organizations in the process of reaching democratic breakthrough. In this manuscript I move beyond the question of how organizations empower a new generation of political elites, instead
Bill Brydon

RIGHTS-BANGLADESH: Glimmers of Hope Amid an Elusive Peace - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    Sultana Kamal dreams of a country "where every single citizen will live in democracy, in equality" and where everyone has "equal share to resources and opportunities." Fulfilling this dream has been her lifelong advocacy as a human rights advocate.
Bill Brydon

Smarter Democracy Promotion - American Foreign Policy Interests: The Journal of the Nat... - 0 views

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    This article focuses on democracy promotion as an instrument of foreign policy. It identifies conditions that conduce to the viability of democracy and offers suggestions about advocating for states that have few prospects of becoming democracies as well
Bill Brydon

World Politics - Inequality and Democracy: Why Inequality Harms Consolidation but Does ... - 0 views

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    Under what conditions do democracies emerge and consolidate? Recent theories suggest that inequality is among the leading determinants of both democratization and consolidation. By contrast, this article argues that inequality harms consolidation but has
Bill Brydon

diacritics - Knowledge of the Future: Future Fables - 0 views

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    Derrida's lecture "No Apocalypse, Not Now (Full Speed Ahead, Seven Missiles, Seven Missives)" is linked here to his discussions of 9/11, which share a concern with fables of the future, fictions or fables that condition the political and economic life of
Bill Brydon

diacritics - Untread and Untried: Nietzsche Reads Derridemocracy - 0 views

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    Exploiting puns that reveal suggestive conceptual connections, this article incorporates a reading of Derrida on literature and democracy in a Derridean reading of Nietzsche, that antidemocrat, who offers a link by which to explore some of Derrida's more
Bill Brydon

diacritics - Nondialectical Materialism - 0 views

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    This article explores the implications of Derrida's suggestion in several texts that, while a classic dialectical materialism partakes of logocentrism, other sorts of nondialectical materialism would be possible. The nondialectical materialisms that emerg
Bill Brydon

diacritics - A Genealogy of Violence, from Light to the Autoimmune - 0 views

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    This essay explores the treatment of violence in Derrida's ethico-political work, stressing the underlying continuity of Derrida's thinking of politics, from his first reading of Levinas to one of the last notions he developed, autoimmunity. Haddad analyz
Bill Brydon

diacritics - Rogue Democracy - 0 views

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    Departing from Derrida's Rogues, this article outlines the political dimensions of Derrida's later work, especially his engagement with Carl Schmitt's concept of the political and the state of exception and his own elaboration of the notions of sovereignt
Bill Brydon

diacritics - For Better and for Worse (There Again . . .) - 0 views

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    This article maps, across a wide range of works, the coordinates of Derrida's thinking of democracy and its relevance to a series of crucial concepts, from difference to autoimmunity. Distinguishing Derrida's idea of a "democracy to come" from the Kantian
Bill Brydon

diacritics - Spectral Gatherings: Derrida, Celan, and the Covenant of the Word - 0 views

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    Taking as its point of departure Derrida's essay "Shibboleth: For Paul Celan," this article is concerned with the relation between the poetic discourse of several Celan lyrics and the problematic of circumcision-as religious operation, wound, inscription,
Bill Brydon

diacritics - Pulsations of Respect, or Winged Impossibility: Literature with Deconstruc... - 0 views

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    This tribute to Jacques Derrida takes in the sweep of his orchestration of literature with philosophy, as two "counterposed moments" of his interrogation of the working of language and thought. Focusing especially on his reading of Mallarmé, which distill
Bill Brydon

diacritics - Signed Paine, or Panic in Literature - 0 views

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    Though it reflects on the play of Paine's name and links it can establish, this essay is concerned with the role of fiction in the performativity of texts, both literary and nonliterary, and especially texts which, like Thomas Paine's Common Sense, affect
Bill Brydon

diacritics - Passionate Secrets and Democratic Dissidence - 0 views

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    This essay begins in the mode of exposition of the problem of the secret as the link between literature and democracy but moves to respond to Derrida's text with a "heretical rewriting," pursuing the notions of heresy and of rhetorical dissidence and the
Bill Brydon

diacritics - "The Most Interesting Thing in the World" - 0 views

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    The topic of the relation between literature and democracy in Derrida's thinking is introduced, focusing especially on the problem of the secret, which has loomed large in Derrida's late discussions of both literature and democracy.
Bill Brydon

diacritics - Derrida and Democracy - 0 views

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    The topic selected for the conference was "Literature and Democracy," and a citation from Derrida's "Passions: An Oblique Offering" served as point of departure: "No democracy without literature; no literature without democracy" [28]. This issue is a logi
Bill Brydon

Competing Autonomy Claims and the Changing Grammar of Global Politics - Globalizations - 0 views

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    This article argues that contending ideas about autonomy lie behind current discourses of human rights, claims to nation-state and cultural autonomy, and democracy promotion. Globalizing processes are bringing these contested understandings of autonomy, a
Bill Brydon

Transnational Public-Private Partnerships in International Relations: Making Sense of C... - 0 views

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    Transnational public-private partnerships (PPPs) have become a popular theme in International Relations (IR) research. Such partnerships constitute a hybrid type of governance, in which nonstate actors co-govern along with state actors for the provision o
Bill Brydon

Journal of Democracy - "Creeping Democratization" in China - 0 views

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    The "third wave" of global democratization has left untouched several East Asian autocracies that are experiencing rapid economic growth: China, Vietnam, and Indonesia. These three countries have made enormous progress in liberalizing markets and integrat
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