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Bill Brydon

Discursive democracy and the challenge of state building in divided societies: reckonin... - 0 views

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    Current approaches to democratic state building place serious conceptual limits on policy options. A democratic future for Bosnia's people will require far more searching engagement with identity formation and its politicization than reform efforts have s
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The Fate of Democracy and Multilateralism in the Americas Alejandro Toledo - Brookings... - 0 views

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    The election of Barack Obama has raised enormous expectations around the world, including in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). While President Obama's attention has understandably been focused predominantly on formidable challenges at home, in the M
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As automotive strikes spread, Honda components plant "experiments" with workplace democ... - 0 views

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    CLB has long argued that democratically elected trade unions are only the first step. The union should be democratically run and officials accountable to the membership. The Guangdong federation's proposal for an annual review of enterprise union chairs i
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    Many international organizations, including the United Nations, are accused of lacking democratic accountability. A variety of proposals have been made to close the gap between their extended influence and the lack of effective controlling mechanisms to p
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Assessing the impact of the Paris Declaration on governance assessments Eldis - 0 views

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    The demand for measuring democracy, human rights and governance is increasing from international development partners. This report is a record of the proceedings of a seminar which focused on governance assessments in the context of the Paris Declaration
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    In recent years, there has been increasing popular and academic debate about how ethnic and racial diversity affects democratic politics and social cohesion in industrialized liberal democracies. In this introduction, different interdisciplinary theoretic
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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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International Actors and Democratisation: Can USAID Deliver a Democratic Culture to Afg... - 0 views

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    Externally driven state-building is a complicated task that rarely fulfils the declared objectives of the international actors or the local state and society. This paper critiques the international dimension to state-building by examining USAID in Afghani
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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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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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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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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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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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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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