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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

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

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

Democracy, human rights and law in Islamic thought - Contemporary Arab Affairs - 0 views

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    for a Western audience unfamiliar with al-Jabri's work and the trend which he both represents and has been instrumental in developing, Democracy, Human Rights and Law in Islamic Thought is not only a suitable introduction, it should be required reading.
Bill Brydon

Democracy's Nemesis: The Rise of the Corporate University -- Giroux 9 (5): 669 -- Cultu... - 0 views

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    This essay focuses on how higher education has been reshaped under the influence of a market rationality, however devalued recently, that continues to license out the university as a storefront, reconfigure governance on the model of a discredited busines
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

Fear's Anger: Virginia Woolf's Psychology and Deliberative Democracy * - New Political ... - 0 views

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    In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf implicitly addresses the necessary conditions for equal participation in deliberative democracy. Woolf's analysis indicates that proponents of deliberative democracy must be attentive to the angry, unconscious resist
Bill Brydon

Liberal Institutionalism and International Cooperation after 11 September 2001 -- Nuruz... - 0 views

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    This article analyzes the impact of the neoconservative foreign policy agenda on wider forms of international cooperation and argues that the unilateral US invasion of Iraq in 2003 has created an international environment of conflict and insecurity where
Bill Brydon

POLITICS: U.S. Policy Shift on Burma Gets Mixed Reactions - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    BANGKOK, Sep 25 (IPS) - The shift in the United States policy towards Burma has been met with mixed reactions, with few believing it will have an impact. But the South-east Asian state's detained opposition leader has already endorsed Washington's move to
Bill Brydon

Democratization and foreign policy in Southeast Asia: the case of the ASEAN Inter-Parli... - 0 views

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    Recent democratic transitions in Southeast Asia raise the question as to how we should theorize the relationship between democratization and foreign policy. Many scholars assume that more 'democratic' Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members
Bill Brydon

Un-contented characters: an education in the shared practices of democratic engagement ... - 0 views

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    How should children be educated for democratic politics in ways that do not undermine their diverse needs, ideas, and interests? The dual challenges for a democratic theory of education are, first, to protect the pluralism of the young from standardizatio
Bill Brydon

Violence and publicity: constructions of political responsibility after 9/11 - Critical... - 0 views

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    Focussing upon recent political philosophical reflections on the War on Terror, this paper asks whether violence can be understood without undermining the empirical and normative potential of public action to curtail it. Explanations of political violence
Bill Brydon

NGOs as Political Institutions -- Ghosh 44 (5): 475 -- Journal of Asian and African Stu... - 0 views

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    Institutions are essentially broadly agreed norms, rules and routines. They might have arisen out of social conflicts with strong influence of power relations, but they also face the demands of democracy. While studying NGOs as political institutions, par
Bill Brydon

Blogging for democracy: deliberation, autonomy, and reasonableness in the blogosphere -... - 0 views

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    This paper critically examines the rising popularity of blogging in the US as a new kind of public space that has the potential to extend and deepen the way in which we interact and engage each other in political discourse. To proponents of deliberative d
Bill Brydon

How bureaucratic elites imagine Europe: towards convergence of governance beliefs? - Jo... - 0 views

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    Does the emerging parallel Community administration share a common set of beliefs about governance and the broad policy direction of European integration? Or do different policy arenas, institutions, and types of committees shape governance beliefs? This
Bill Brydon

Inclusive Democracy and Economic Inequality in South Asia: Any Discernible Link? - Revi... - 0 views

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    Studies of the relationship between political democracy and economic inequality have produced diverse findings. This study attempts to mitigate some conceptual and methodological problems inherent in such studies by using multi-indicator concepts of inclu
Bill Brydon

Democratization as Deliberative Capacity Building -- Dryzek 42 (11): 1379 -- Comparativ... - 0 views

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    Effective deliberation is central to democracy and so should enter any definition of democratization. However, the deliberative aspect now ubiquitous in the theory, practice, and promotion of democracy is generally missing in comparative studies of democr
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