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Bill Brydon

Council of Europe: Higher Education and Democracy - 0 views

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    An invitational Global Forum, organised by the Council of Europe and the US Steering Committee of the International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility and Democracy, was held in Strasbourg in October. Its theme was Converging competence
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Latin American Perspectives -- Globalization, Democracy, and Revolutionary Nationalist ... - 0 views

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    The latter part of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twentyfirst have seen major changes in world political and economic relationships. There has been disintegration of old countries such as the former Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, the int
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Aestheticisation of Politics: From Fascism to Radical Democracy - Journal for Cultural ... - 0 views

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    The "aestheticisation of politics", a term coined by Walter Benjamin, refers to a critique of various modes of politics considered to be irrational in leftist, critical theory. The critique ties aestheticised politics to fascism and capitalism, thereby pr
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Latin American Critical Enquiry and the Nature of the Political in the Era of Globaliza... - 0 views

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    Along with essential political activism such as the emergence of the Zapatistas in 1994 and the World Social Forum in 2001, there has been a significant increase in research in the field of critical theory in the global South and especially in Latin Ameri
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Does Democratization Alter the Policy Process? Trade Policymaking in Brazil - Democrati... - 0 views

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    This article explores the implications of transitions to democracy for the economic policymaking process in developing countries. Democracy is supposed to give citizens oversight of their political leaders, while providing leaders with electoral incentive
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Ambiguity, Uncertainty, and Risk: Rethinking Indeterminacy -International Political Soc... - 0 views

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    In this paper, I argue that critical international theory could benefit from a broader and deeper conception of the limits of knowledge-that what is needed is more attention to the role of ambiguity in contemporary politics. While not challenging the usef
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DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Governance Still Failing Africa - 0 views

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    How can governance be improved to give development a chance in Africa? Political theorist Patrick Chabal believes a role has to be found for traditional methods of accountability to be used alongside formal systems recognised in the West.
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POLITICS-ANGOLA: A Tradition of Strong Women - 0 views

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    She was orphaned by Angola's liberation struggle against Portugal, but through it she found a new family and a life-long inspiration. "I was raised on politics, I grew up through the revolution," says Luzia Inglês Van-Dúnem, one of Angola's top women pol
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Introduction: Notes on political economies of displacement in southern Africa - Journ... - 0 views

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    This special issue considers how contemporary forms of displacement in southern Africa may be approached and analysed in terms of multiple 'political economies of displacement'. Drawing insight from classic concepts of political economy, but without adher
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Re-inventing Dalit women's identity? Dynamics of social activism and electoral politics... - 0 views

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    Dalit or ex-untouchable women's voices and perspectives have been marginalized not only in Dalit movements but also in predominantly upper-caste Hindu-led women's movements. This paper aims at exploring the unheard voices and perspectives of Dalit women i
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POLITICS-ETHIOPIA: Disappointed But Not Defeated - 0 views

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gender democracy

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    She fought alongside men in the Ethiopian liberation struggle. She fought for a free and fair society. But today, Yewubmar Asfaw feels that Ethiopia's revolution has failed to deliver a fair share of political power to women. In her book, published this
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INCREASING WOMEN's PARTICIPATION IN VILLAGE GOVERNMENT IN CHINA - Critical Asian Studies - 0 views

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    In the last three decades in China, few and declining numbers of women have participated in the main grassroots institutions of rural government, the village committee and the village branch of the Chinese Communist Party. This article examines a project
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POLITICS-MALAWI: Elections Get Ugly For Women - 0 views

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    Malawi's primary elections are getting ugly for women candidates. Shoving, derogatory songs and being pelted with stones are just some of the intimidating tactics aimed at discouraging women from contesting the primary elections that will select candidate
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AFRICA: Keen on Democracy, Despite Mixed Results - 0 views

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    Over the last twenty years, the ballot box has replaced military coups as a means of political change across Africa, says Professor Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi, a political scientist from the University of Ghana. However the results of democratic practices are
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POLITICS: Greybeards Urge Overhaul of Global Governance - 0 views

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    Capping a nearly two-year consultation involving dozens of U.S. and international leaders, a new report by three U.S. think tanks is calling on President-elect Barack Obama and other leaders to implement sweeping reforms in global governance to more effec
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Standing Up, Speaking Out: Local Power and Women's Rights: International Development Re... - 0 views

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    It was a policy born of a shining promise - that decentralized governments would help empower tens of millions of women in developing countries. But has shifting more power and resources to the local level really improved women's lives? Has it resulted in
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POLITICS: Decentralisation, a Double-Edged Sword for Women - 0 views

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    Decentralised governments have often been presented as a formula for strengthening democracy and citizen participation, and giving women greater access to power. But experiences like that of Eufrosina Cruz, who was denied the right to run for mayor of her
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Malaysia democracy and the end of ethnic politics? - Australian Journal of Internationa... - 0 views

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    In this article I discuss Malaysia's turning point moments - the March 8th General Election and the August 26th by-election which respectively saw the opposition's ascendancy and Anwar Ibrahim's political comeback. The opposition's ability to gain an 'opt
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Deliberating Democracy: Scenes from a Brazilian Municipal Health Council -- Cornwall 36... - 0 views

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    Brazil's health councils appear to offer inspiring examples of what Fung and Wright (2003) term "empowered participatory governance." But what happens in practice? This article narrates an episode in the life of a municipal health council in northeast Bra
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    this article's findings imply that selection effects account for a large part of the correlation between associational involvement and political action. The conclusion reached therefore is that voluntary associations are not the schools of democracy they
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