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Bill Brydon

FRIDE - La UE y el desarrollo de los medios de comunicación en Asia Central - 0 views

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    A pesar del compromiso de la UE con Asia Central fruto de la adopción de la Estrategia de la Unión Europea en junio 2007, la situación de los medios de comunicación sigue deteriorándose en los cinco países de la región. El diálogo sobre derechos humanos i
Bill Brydon

FRIDE - The EU' s approach to the development of mass media in Central Asia - 0 views

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    In spite of positive developments in terms of human rights, the rule of law and democratisation in Central Asia following the adoption of the European Union (EU) Strategy in June 2007, the state of the mass media continues to deteriorate in all five count
Bill Brydon

What is wrong with agonistic pluralism?: Reflections on conflict in democratic theory -... - 0 views

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    During the last couple of decades, concurrently with an increased awareness of the complexity of ethical conflicts, political theorists have directed attention to how constitutional democracy should cope with a fact of incommensurable doctrines. Poststruc
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Growth in women's political representation :: European Journal of Political Research - 0 views

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    The expansion of women's formal political representation ranks among the most significant trends in international politics of the last 100 years. Though women made steady political progress, substantial country-level variation exists in patterns of growth
Bill Brydon

On the circularity of democratic justice -- Thompson 35 (9): 1079 -- Philosophy & Socia... - 0 views

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    In this article, I argue that justice and democracy stand in a circular relationship: just outcomes emerge from democratic deliberations, but only if such deliberations meet the standards of justice. I develop my argument by engaging in a critical dialogu
Bill Brydon

Globalisation and the Challenge of Democracy in Arab North Africa pdf - 0 views

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    Democratization processes have emerged recently as an essential component of globalization and thus, have been paramount in its discourse, and as a political prerequisite for integrating developing countries in the global market. The emphasis, however, ha
Bill Brydon

Democracy of the Algorithm :: Society of the Query - 0 views

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    What if the western faith in technology and information, in the belief that the information returned are all the voices, that universal access to al information will change complicated social issues, have made us more blind to the constructedness of our o
Bill Brydon

Fair distribution of welfare gain: application of the equity principle in forming inter... - 0 views

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    International institutions play the major role in the current global governance to provide global public goods (GPG) efficiently and to regulate cross border externalities (CBE) effectively. Also there are many international institutions. But the global c
Bill Brydon

The 'popular democracy vs. civil society' debate in Taiwan revisited - Journal of Polit... - 0 views

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    This paper begins with delineating the emergence and transformation of the discourses of 'popular democracy', and the formulation and debate over 'civil society'. This is followed by an account of the subsequent incorporation of social movements and the a
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Global Environmental Politics - On the Modern and the Nonmodern in Deliberative Environ... - 0 views

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    The "deliberative turn" in green political theory and applied environmental decision-making is now well-established. However, questions remain about the applicability of its concepts and methods to non-Western or "nonmodern" contexts, to use a term from G
Bill Brydon

Global Environmental Politics - The Fragmentation of Global Governance Architectures: A... - 0 views

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    Most research on global governance has focused either on theoretical accounts of the overall phenomenon or on empirical studies of distinct institutions that serve to solve particular governance challenges. In this article we analyze instead "governance a
Bill Brydon

Tunisia: beyond illusions of change | open Democracy News Analysis - 0 views

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    The certain victory of a long-term president in a sham election is a routine occurrence in the Arab world. But Tunisia's governance model and international outlook make it a special case, says Amel Boubekeur.
Bill Brydon

Democracy's Labor: Disjunctive Memory in a Bolivian Workers' Union -- Albro 36 (5): 39 ... - 0 views

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    Despite recent constitutional reforms, Bolivian democracy struggles to reconcile the inclusive rhetoric of state reform, the expansion of rights, and special attention to previously ignored groups, on the one hand, with continued poverty, inequality, and
Bill Brydon

Global Environmental Politics - Environmental Space as a Basis for Legitimating Global ... - 0 views

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    The notion of environmental space, based on the principles of environmental limits and sharing environmental resources equitably, offers a starting point for a positive approach to the global "return of scarcity" challenge, notably by providing a basis le
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Small Axe - Aristide and the Politics of Democratization Nick Nesbitt - 0 views

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    The contemporaneous publication of Alex Dupuy's The Prophet and the Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Peter Hallward's Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment in 2007 marks a watershed in contemporary Haitian Studies. Together,
Bill Brydon

The Idea of Power and the Role of Ideas - Daniel Béland - Political Studies R... - 0 views

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    Since the mid-1970s, the social science debate over the meaning of the idea of power has intensified. Offering a critical discussion of the work of Steven Lukes, this brief article puts forward an amended definition of political power before exploring the
Bill Brydon

Small Axe - Lyonel Trouillot, or The Fictions of Formal Democracy - 0 views

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    Jean-Bertrand Aristide was re-elected president of Haiti in 2000, with a massive parliamentary majority. My book Damming the Flood (2007) tried to explain how and why his government overthrown, several years later, in an internationally-sponsored coup-d'é
Bill Brydon

Violence and Methodology: Reading Aristide in the Aftermath of 2004 - 0 views

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    This article analyzes the topic of dictatorship, political violence, and popular struggle in two recent works that treat the rise and fall of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide: Alex Dupuy's The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the
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Global governance in the context of climate change: the challenges of increasingly comp... - 0 views

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    It is well-acknowledged that there is an imbalance between the existing structures and processes for global governance and the threats that the world is facing to its environment and natural resources. When swift responses to risk and uncertainty are requ
Bill Brydon

De-Territorializing Labor Law -Law & Ethics of Human Rights - 0 views

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    Labor law was traditionally a domestic project, defined on the basis of a geographic territory or a synthetic community; its norms were determined by the state and applied to employers and workers who resided within the state. Commonly, labor law is admin
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