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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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CJO - Abstract - Diversity and Democratic Politics: An Introduction - 0 views

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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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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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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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Democratic accountability of international organizations: Parliamentary control within ... - 0 views

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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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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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Facing Complexity: Democracy, Expertise and the Discovery Process. Dan Greenwood. 2010;... - 0 views

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    As politics continues to be intertwined with complex, rapidly advancing bodies of knowledge, the question arises of how we are to understand the relationship between democracy and expertise. Recent discussions have focused on the capacity for democratic p
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The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies: A New Research Agenda for Europe and Be... - 0 views

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    This article lays the theoretical and methodological foundations of a new historically minded approach to the comparative study of democratization, centered on the analysis of the creation, development, and interaction of democratic institutions. Historic
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India: a new partner in democracy promotion? - 0 views

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    Indian elites are concerned about losing their role as spokesmen for developing countries in global affairs if the country abandons the principle of non-intervention in favour of democracy promotion. As links between India and most fragile South Asian sta
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Widespread Declines on Democracy in Former Soviet Union, New EU States - 0 views

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    In a sign of broad, cross-regional pressures on democratic development, countries throughout the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe suffered declines in their democratic institutions, according to Nations in Transit 2010, a new study relea
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Understanding active citizenship in the light of protest - 0 views

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    Idasa looks at protests in South Africa over the past 15 months and asks how citizen agency has contributed to the deepening of democracy. By Theo Chiviru In a dialogue funded by the IDRC last year, Idasa considered the space civil society has within t
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Democracy or death? Will democratisation bring greater regional instability to East Asi... - 0 views

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    The article challenges the view that democratisation is a recipe for regional disorder in East Asia. This view is not supported by evidence. Critics of democratisation fail to consider a number of mitigating factors that may check the destabilising conseq
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Islam and democracy - Contemporary Arab Affairs - 0 views

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    This paper reviews how the civilizational discourse of Islam differs from that of democracy but doesn't necessarily mean that it contradicts it. Knowing that this juxtaposition promotes diversity and distinction, this paper elucidates the factors of ambig
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CJO - Abstract - Containing the Kantian revolutions: a theoretical analysis of the neo-... - 0 views

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    This article examines the neo-conservative critique of global liberal governance. It provides a theoretically oriented assessment of the neo-conservative case against international law and human rights regimes, and draws out the main political and ethical
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    For democracy to function well, there must be a sense of accountability by politicians as well assome participation by citizens. Accountability checks the power of leaders and encourages peopleto take active part in society, making sure that governments (
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Afro-pessimism, news flows, global journalism and media regimes - Journalism Studies - 0 views

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    The concepts news flow, global journalism/news and media regime are under theoretical construction. News media content is becoming increasingly deterritorialized, involving complex relations and flows across national borders and continents. Consequently,
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THE SHIFTING CROSS-MEDIA NEWS LANDSCAPE - Journalism Studies - 0 views

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    The article offers new insights for democracy and for news producers by mapping the use and users of today's cross-media news landscape, as the everyday consumption of news across the range of available news media and formats is shifting reflecting transf
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Civil Society, Moderate Islam, and Politics in Indonesia and Malaysia - Journal of Civi... - 0 views

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    What role do moderate Islamic organizations play in promoting democratization in Malaysia and Indonesia? What is the difference between large, grassroots organizations and newer more urban-based non-governmental organization (NGOs)? Is one type of organiz
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Civil Society after Democracy: The Evolution of Civic Activism in South Africa and Kore... - 0 views

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    The phase of democratic consolidation can significantly impact the motives, dynamics and objectives of civil society. Its internal roles, dynamics and power balances are significantly altered by the advent of democracy, due to shifting resources, politica
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