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Egypt Cracks Down as U.S. Stands By - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    In the face of police brutality, crackdowns on political parties and media, and a host of other violations ahead of Egypt's Nov. 28 parliamentary election, human rights advocates are calling on President Barack Obama to use U.S. leverage to persuade Egypt
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Business-managed democracy: The trade agenda - Critical Social Policy - 0 views

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    The architecture of global governance that has emerged in the past two decades has been strongly influenced by transnational policy actors. This article examines the role of transnational corporate agency in social policy by focusing in particular on the
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Indonesia, a democracy full stop - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition - 0 views

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    Indonesia's disasters - October's tsunami and eruption, the killing of suspected terrorists in Sumatra - get more media attention than its democratic elections. Yet these marked the direct re-election of the president last year and a cautious step away fr
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Political generations in Northern Ireland - TILLEY - 2010 - European Journal of Politic... - 0 views

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    Since the late 1980s, Northern Ireland has seen a radical electoral shift away from the historically dominant parties in the Catholic and Protestant blocs - the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), respectively - towa
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Journal of Democracy - Liberation vs. Control: The Future of Cyberspace - 0 views

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    Rather than seeing technologies in oppositional terms, as either "empty" vessels to be filled by human intent, or powerful forces imbued with some kind of agency that no one can withstand, technologies are complex and continuously evolving manifestations
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Journal of Democracy - The Elusive Synthesis - 0 views

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    Development aid and democracy support have become increasingly interconnected, but cooperation between them is only partial and its future uncertain. Traditional divisions between the two domains narrowed in the 1990s amidst increases in international aid
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China: An International Journal - A Chinese Way of Democratisation? - 0 views

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    Democracy is regarded as a worthy value by most Chinese people including the top leadership, yet in the last two decades, it seems that no progress has been made towards a democratic China. 1 The majority of Chinese people seem content with the current re
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Racism and Brazilian democracy: two sides of the same coin? - Ethnic and Racial Studies - 0 views

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    Experiences with racism and age negatively affect how Afro-Brazilians in Salvador and So Paulo rate democracy. Older cohorts are more likely to rate democracy high compared to younger cohorts who rate it as low. Respondents in Salvador tend to rate democr
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History of the Word "Democracy" in Canada and Québec: A Political Analysis of... - 0 views

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    An examination of the speeches of modern Canada's "founding fathers" reveals that they were openly antidemocratic. How did a regime founded on anti-democratic ideas come to be positively identified with democracy? Drawing on similar studies of the United
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European Political Science - Inventions and Developments of Democracy: The Approach of... - 0 views

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    In traditional approaches to the history of political ideas, the history of democracy is uniformly studied concerning the point of departure, selection of canonical texts, etc. The paper introduces the Koselleckian conceptual history approach (Begriffsges
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Coercive or Corrosive: The Negative Impact of Economic Sanctions on Democracy - Interna... - 0 views

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    This article seeks to analyze the impact that sanctions have on democracy. We argue that economic sanctions worsen the level of democracy because the economic hardship caused by sanctions can be used as a strategic tool by the targeted regime to consolida
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Democratic darkness and Adorno's redemptive criticism - Philosophy Social Criticism - 0 views

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    Adorno's critical theory aims to open space for the expression of alternative futures, but its insistence on dialectical reflection encourages at the same time our sustained attentiveness to the psychic and material constraints that may prevent the very p
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Unravelling Intra-Party Democracy in Thailand - Asian Journal of Political Science - 0 views

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    This survey aims to analyze the state of intra-party democracy (IPD) in Thailand. IPD is defined as a characteristic of the distribution of decision-making power among members and leaders within a political party along the two principal dimensions of incl
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Ethnicity and Democratization in Myanmar - Asian Journal of Political Science - 0 views

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    Myanmar is embarking on political reforms that could prove to be the first stage of a gradual transition to democracy. However, critical problems of ethnic discord remain to be resolved. This article draws on the literature on multiculturalism to examine
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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AS TRANSFORMATIVE PRACTICE - Critical Asian Studies - 0 views

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    Examining the historical trajectory of these two "models" and the transformative practice that produced relatively high human development outcomes, the article identifies some common elements behind their success, highlighting the centrality of public act
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Unavoidable Tensions: The Liberal Path to Global NATO - Contemporary Security Policy - 0 views

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    The article puts the contemporary debate on NATO 'going global' into its historical and conceptual perspective. Pressure to expand alliance responsibilities is not new, rather it is a fundamental problem of alliance goal setting and legitimacy. The pedigr
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Calling on Jefferson: the 'custodiary' as the fourth estate in the Democratic Project -... - 0 views

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    Aimed at reinforcing the democratic values of freedom of speech and increased diversity in civic access to the means of communication, this paper examines the concept of democracy within an information and communication technology-mediated context. Discus
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Did the Egalitarian Reforms of the Swedish Educational System Equalise Levels of Democr... - 0 views

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    In the mid-1990s an extensive reform of the Swedish educational system was initiated in order to create a 'school for everyone' intended to function like a 'social equaliser'. The new unified gymnasium initiated longer educational programmes with an exten
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    A curious set of metaphors marks the jargon of postcommunist transition: education for democracy, classrooms of democracy, democratic exams, democracy that is growing and maturing, but which might still be in diapers or making its first steps or, of cours
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Businessweek: Is the Right to Strike Coming to China? | CLB - 0 views

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    The name gives no hint of the revolutionary changes afoot for mainland workers. Yet the proposed Regulations on the Democratic Management of Enterprises, now being debated by the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress, could give Chinese labor the ultimat
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