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Burma's (male) military - 0 views

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    There will be "elections" in Burma this year. But we should not be fooled into believing they will be free or fair. They will be a sham and will further entrench the military at the heart of power. The new constitution is harsh and one of the most unfair
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Africa Today - Multilateralization of Democracy Promotion and Defense in Africa - 0 views

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    The use of multilateral institutions to promote and defend democracy is one of the most remarkable recent trends in politics. The novelty of the approach has generated enormous interest among social-science scholars, yet none of the major studies on the s
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Putin and Europe on the same crisis page | Transnational Institute - 0 views

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    The current wave of strikes across Europe are only a prelude to what will come, as the ruling elite are not prepared to change their anti-crisis policies that have merely supported the corporations that caused the crisis.
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Reforming the global order | Australian Policy Online - 0 views

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    Not only has the world political system failed to prevent these slaughters, it has also struggled to cope with natural disasters and the worst international financial crisis in 60 years. Then, when confronted with an ominous and long-range security threat
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Politics, 'guanxi' and the rule of law | East Asia Forum - 0 views

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    The real challenge to the administration of justice in China is, rather, the undue intrusion of politics and, even more broadly, of 'guanxi', the network of interpersonal relations of mutual protection, benefit and dependency that is one of the enduring h
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Indonesia-Australia Relations in the Era of Democracy: The View from the Indonesian Sid... - 0 views

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    Despite the fact that much has been written about the relationship between Indonesia and Australia with emphasis on the role of government, little has been done in terms of examining Indonesia's changing domestic politics and the role of non-state actors
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Globalization and the Emergence of a Transnational Oligarchy - 0 views

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    The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites due to globalization. In the last century, the main change that occurred in the way the Western world trained its elites is that meritocracy became the basis for their recruitment.
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Democracy Resource Center Blog: Actors without Society: The Role of Civil Actors in the... - 0 views

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    This study is an effort toward an analytical view on the past two decades of development of civil society in the western Balkans. The development there does not correspond to the theoretical outlines of the democratic transition or transformation. The pri
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Eurozine - Banking regulation? Malfunction! - Lucas Zeise - 0 views

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    The few regulatory measures introduced since the financial collapse in 2008 are being supervised by the same banking sector to blame for the crash in first place, writes Financial Times journalist Lucas Zeise. Governments' farming out of supervisory dutie
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Coping with constitutional indeterminacy: John Rawls and Jurgen Habermas -- Hedrick 36 ... - 0 views

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    In this article, I argue that political philosophers like Rawls and Habermas that characterize their methods as non-metaphysical or postmetaphysical depend on constitutions in order to provide a positive and public reference point for democratic participa
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Global South's Growing Role in Post-Crisis World - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    Society and Governments: debates and alternatives for a post-crisis world" is the name of a Thematic World Social Forum meeting being held in the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia.
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Journal of Democracy - Still Bowling Alone?: The Post-9/11 Split - 0 views

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    The crisis of the 9/11 terrorist attacks has sparked a surge of increased civic engagement by young people in the United States, but there is also evidence of a growing divide along class lines.
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Journal of Democracy - Twenty-Five Years, Fifteen Findings - 0 views

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    We insisted, for example, on a clear distinction between liberalization and democratization. We refused to accept the notion that democracy requires some fixed set of economic or cultural prerequisites. We emphasized the key role of elite interaction and
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Who's Afraid Now? Reconstructing Canadian Citizenship Education Through Transdisciplina... - 0 views

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    Viewed through the lenses of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (or CRC), this article critically evaluates the growing controversy surrounding the teaching of human rights in Canada. During a lengthy period of multicultural angst an
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The Bosnian police, multi-ethnic democracy, and the race of 'European civilization' - E... - 0 views

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    In many social science accounts of the role of law enforcement organizations in relation to race and racism, police are positioned as the agents of racialization projects, directly or indirectly carrying out the state's work of demarcating insiders from o
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Global Integrity Commons: The Discreet Charm of Flexians: Reviewing Janine Wedel's Shad... - 0 views

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    actors who are remolding the landscape of global governance. Emblematic of the new era of "flexibility," these elite players leverage their influence and power by moving in and out of multiple roles, often beyond public scrutiny. For academics, activists,
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Transition or development?: reassessing priorities for law reform -- Glinavos 10 (1): 5... - 0 views

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    This article enquires into the implications the modern literature on economic development emanating from international institutions has for law reform and the role of the state in the economy. The main question asked is whether regulation has a uniform ro
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International Economic Law and Policy Blog: Using Trade Measures to Promote Democracy, ... - 0 views

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    A couple days ago, I posted about Pascal Lamy's speech on human rights, where he said, among other things, that "trade measures are the most commonly used instrument in developed countries to put pressure on states violating human rights." Presumably, on
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Explaining mass support for democracy in Hong Kong - Democratization - 0 views

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    This article aims to identify the main causal factors that underlie the overall levels of mass support for democracy in Hong Kong in the light of two approaches of comparative politics. Using a common questionnaire in 2003, 2005, and 2008, analyses of the
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Two dimensions of democracy and the economy - Democratization - 0 views

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    Does democracy influence economic policymaking and outcomes? Our study investigates the implications of Dahl's two dimensions of democracy ('polyarchy'): contestation/competition and inclusion/participation. We hypothesize that increases in democratic com
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