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Challenges to democracy building and the role of civil society - Democratization - 0 views

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    This article addresses the issue of the challenges of democracy building and the role of civil society in this process by focusing on three countries in southeastern Europe, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Since the 1990s
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The democratic common sense: Young Swedes' understanding of democracy -- theoretical fe... - 0 views

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    This article highlights ordinary young citizens' understanding of democracy. In a system based on rule of the people, it is surprising how little attention scholars have paid to common-sense views of democracy. The article is based on focus group intervie
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Support for Women Officeholders in a Non-Arab Islamic Democracy: The Case of Indonesia ... - 0 views

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    Recent work argues that the relationship between Islamic faith, the lack of support for gender equality and democratization is spurious. This paper analyzes the correlates of individual support for increasing the number of women serving in Indonesian legi
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Peace beyond Process? -- Mitchell 38 (3): 641 -- Millennium - Journal of International ... - 0 views

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    This article problematises two facets of process with regard to peacebuilding: its postulation as a basis for peace grounded in everyday human activity and its construction of violence as anti-process. Its goal is to present the critique of process as a m
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Power and Democratic Weakness: Neoconservatism and Neoclassical Realism -- Caverley 38 ... - 0 views

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    While realists and neoconservatives generally disagreed on the Iraq invasion of 2003, nothing inherent in either approach to foreign policy accounts for this. Neoconservatism's enthusiasm for democratisation would appear to distinguish the two but its rej
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Democracy Promotion: Offensive Liberalism versus the Rest (of IR Theory) -- Miller 38 (... - 0 views

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    The objective of this article is to develop a novel distinction among four IR approaches and especially to highlight the approach which will be called here 'offensive liberalism'. This four fold division is based not only on a distinction between realism
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American Katechon:When Political Theology Became International Relations Theory. Nicola... - 0 views

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    While nobody would deny that international relations theory is a secular social science, especially in its "realist" guise, it is interesting to note that a number of commentators and historians of the discipline often turn to religious metaphors in order
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Bodies of Desire, Terror and the War in Eurasia: Impolite Disruptions of (Neo) Liberal ... - 0 views

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    The leaders of the neoliberal world order are now intensifying their interventions by unleashing force with impunity while slaughtering people in the name of liberal internationalism's peace, freedom, democracy and security. Their calls, interventions of
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Modernization, Globalization and Democratization in Turkey: The AKP Experience and its ... - 0 views

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    The aim of this paper is to provide a critical analysis of the AKP experience in terms of its electoral success, its mode of governance, and its transformative capacity. In the first part of the paper, I will suggest that this experience and the electoral
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Can Democracy Emancipate Itself From Political Theology? Habermas and Lefort on the Per... - 0 views

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    In the following paper, I address the relation between political theology and the modern democratic form. To do so, I compare the writings of two authors who have more solid democratic credentials than Carl Schmitt: Jürgen Habermas and Claude Lefort. I ar
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Deliberative Discussion, Language, and Efficiency in the World Social Forum Process Mob... - 0 views

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    The World Social Forum (WSF) and European Social Forum (ESF) processes represent a new platform for experimenting with multilingual practices of "deliberative talk." Activists come together in meetings that take place at the regional level between these l
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La Via Campesina: the birth and evolution of a transnational social movement - Journal ... - 0 views

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    The origin and evolution of the transnational peasant movement La Va Campesina is analysed through five evolutionary stages. In the 1980s the withdrawal of the state from rural areas simultaneously weakened corporativist and clientelist control over rural
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France's 'Grenelle de l'environnement': openings and closures in ecological democracy -... - 0 views

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    Since 2007 France has been systematically renovating government policy under the banner of sustainable development. This process, called the Grenelle de l'environnement, extends the official role given to environmental associations in certain of the State
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Digital Divide and the Changing Political/Media Environment of Post-Socialist Europe --... - 0 views

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    The progress of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in post-Socialist countries is characterized by uneven economic and technological development, thus leading to contradictory results. Both industry and the social/cultural policies of these
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Recovering Justice: Political Legitimacy Reconsidered. JOHN KANE. 2010; Politics & Policy - 0 views

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    Democratic leaders confront a core dilemma in international relations. They favor democracies but know that the legitimacy of stable nondemocratic states is guaranteed under principles of state sovereignty and nonintervention. They therefore seem forced t
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The Impact of the Return of Religion on Theoretical Approaches to Democracy and Governa... - 0 views

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    The survey article analyses the impact of the return of religion on theoretical approaches to democracy and governance in the social and political sciences and spells out the normative and practical implications of a post-secular research programme on pol
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The Third Generation of Deliberative Democracy. Stephen Elstub. 2010; Political Studies... - 0 views

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    The article argues that deliberative democracy has now entered a third generation, to which the three recent books considered here contribute. The first generation included the normative assertions of Habermas and Rawls. The second generation involved the
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Deterrence, Democracy, and the Pursuit of International Justice. Leslie Vinjamuri. 2010... - 0 views

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    In recent years the efforts to hold the perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable have become increasingly normalized, and building capacity in this area has become central to the strategies of numerous advocacy groups, international organizations, and
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Framing Islam: The Resurgence of Orientalism During the Bush II Era -- Kumar 34 (3): 25... - 0 views

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    This paper outlines five key taken-for-granted frames that underpin discussions of Islam and Muslims in the post 9/11 world: Islam is a monolithic religion, Islam is a uniquely sexist religion, the "Muslim mind" is incapable of rationality and science, Is
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Educating for Democracy -- Cam 56 (4): 37 -- Diogenes - 0 views

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    The author, a specialist in philosophy for children who is recognized worldwide, presents the conceptual and philosophical framework within which the idea of early education in philosophical discussion is situated. A theory of education and its place in s
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