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Public Support for Democratic Governance in Southeast Asia - Asian Journal of Political... - 0 views

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    The transition and consolidation of democracy in Southeast Asia has proven fragile and tenuous some 30 years after the current wave of democratization began. A critical ingredient in the process of democratization is the role of public opinion and the ext
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World Politics - Federalism in Europe and Latin America: Conceptualization, Causes, and... - 0 views

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    Recent events in Europe and Latin America have triggered serious debate over federalism. In response, political scientists have turned to the new institutionalism literature in the attempt to understand both the causes and the consequences of federal inst
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World Politics - Does Landholding Inequality Block Democratization?: A Test of the "Bre... - 0 views

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    Recent cross-national studies have returned their attention to the structural determinants of political regimes, highlighting in particular the factor of as a decisive barrier to democratization. This article provides the first systematic test of such hyp
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Deliberative democracy, elite politics and electoral reform - Policy Studies - 0 views

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    Many advanced liberal democracies exhibit 'democracy deserts' in which high levels of social exclusion among large sections of the population are compounded by low levels of democratic engagement. How to reverse declining levels of electoral participation
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POLITICS-AFRICA: Constitutions Affirmed as Essential for Democracy - 0 views

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    One of Africa's main challenges is ensuring that constitutions reflect a consensus amongst all sectors of the population, including vulnerable groups such as women, are rarely taken into account in constitutional strengthening initiatives.
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The Court » The Prime Minister and Prorogation: Time for a New SCC Reference? - 0 views

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    Legitimate concerns have been expressed over what Harper has asked of the Governor General. The most compelling, in my view, is that Jean's approval of the prorogation request sets a dangerous precedent in which a Prime Minister may seek prorogation or di
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RIGHTS-CAMBODIA: New Laws May Curb NGO Activity - 0 views

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    Cambodia could be the latest Asian country to adopt tighter laws governing the activities of local and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) -- a move many believe will put further pressure on the country's already fragile democratic space.
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Human Rights Quarterly - Human Rights Ideology and Dimensions of Power: A Radical Appro... - 0 views

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    This article advances the argument that there is a distinct ideology of Human Rights embedded in the International Bill of Rights (IBR). Instead of contrasting ideologies in terms of their stance on equality and liberty, it suggests employing three dimens
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The Nigerian Feminist Movement: Lessons from Women in Nigeria, WIN - Review of African ... - 0 views

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    In Nigeria, as in other societies, there is, and there has always been a women's movement or more correctly women's movements. These existed before, during and after colonialism. Many of these may probably not fit into the conventional definition of a mov
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RIGHTS: Less Freedom in Older Democracies - 0 views

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    Western democracies have seen a setback both in law and in practice, Callamard said. "Most of Western Europe and the U.S. have seen a setback through new legislation and new powers given to the police and the state. That is a part of a wide range of setba
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Asia's new democracy forum: talking shop or catalyst for change? | Democracy Digest - 0 views

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    The forum defines Asia along geographic rather than cultural lines in an attempt to bridge civilizational schisms, notes Benjamin Reilly, director of the Centre for Democratic Institutions at the Australian National University, an approach which includes
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    The Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), signed after eight months of rancorous negotiations, is categorical and unconditional. America's bid to act as the world's only super-power and to establish quasi-colonial control of Iraq, an attempt that began with
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Iraq Needs US Shield for Democracy to Work - YaleGlobal, 10 December 2008 - 0 views

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    The US has a track record in guiding chaotic states toward vibrant democracies in Taiwan and South Korea, and can do so again, although the challenges are greater considering round-the-clock news coverage as well as the many complications associated with
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Global governance for sustainable development: the need for policy coherence and new pa... - 0 views

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    The theme of the conference - Global Governance for Sustainable Development - was chosen soon after the Conference on Insecurity and Development was held in Bonn in 2005. The Bonn conference had shown that there were more threats to human security than wa
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World state or global governmentality? Constitutive power and resistance in a post-impe... - 0 views

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    This article addresses recent theoretical discussion about the state under conditions of globalisation, focusing in particular on recently popular 'world state' theory, as articulated by Martin Shaw and Alexander Wendt. It suggests that while world state
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The Solomon Islands intervention and the instabilities of the post-colonial state - Glo... - 0 views

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    Shortcomings in the prevailing discourse of 'failed states' and the practical challenges of international state-building are examined in this article through a detailed case study of the Solomon Islands, a small independent Pacific island country that sin
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    Just when the nation-state appeared to be waning in significance, national sovereignty is back in the spotlight. The issue takes on special urgency in the United States, where sovereign right has been proclaimed persistently by the president in an attempt
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POPULAR LAMENTS Affective literacy, democratization and war - Cultural Studies - 0 views

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    This essay focuses on the cultural literacy that popular songs of lament in the Philippines in the1970s and 1980s created and depended on and discusses the way this cultural literacy contributed to the popular revolt against the dictatorship in 1986. I fo
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Eurozine - Can democracies deal with climate change? - Claus Leggewie, Harald Welzer - 0 views

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    Rising energy costs and the eco-social consequences of climate change are causing anxieties about the future to increase, while trust in the ability of political elites to solve these problems is evaporating. Reaching eco-political targets calls for more
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LRB · Ervand Abrahamian: Who's in Charge? - 0 views

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    American officials - without any trace of irony - label Iran as militaristic, aggressive, expansionist, interventionist, even as hegemonic and imperialistic. The media often echo this, depicting Iran as a cross between the Persian Empire and the Third Rei
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