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This paper examines the challenges that Indigenous peoples face when they use cultural rights arguments to influence the decision making of international organizations such as the United Nations, the WTO and NAFTA regulatory boards. The paper responds to the concerns that identity politics has...
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We make rights claims for all kinds of reasons, under vastly different circumstances and in a host of distinctive contexts. And we do this all around the globe. But why do we make rights claims? What do we intend to do when we engage in this activity? And what is it that we actually do,...
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This paper addresses problems in the theory and practice of democracy. In the twentieth century new economic and … democracy. For a while, the bureaucratic paradigm seemed to offer a solution. But by the 1980s bureaucracy was derided as … by clinging to the old ideal of representative democracy buttressed by forms of expertise based on the new theories of …
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Protagoras has been called been called by scholars the first democratic thinker. The evidence for this is based on his judgment, contained in his 'Great Speech' in Plato's dialog Protagoras, that the Athenians are wise for allowing all their citizens to make judgments about justice. While the...
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Given the increasing acceleration of social life, some theorists detect a crisis of democracy. After all, democratic … radical approaches to democracy. I argue that the opposition between anti-democratic speed and democratic slowness is not … democracy. To begin with, Young's approach depends on a rupture in time, namely on individuals who respond to the immediacy of …
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between food and democracy. I engage with three conversations. In political theory, the distinction between necessity and … feminized private family table against the encroachments of the global market. The literature on democracy as daily life … democracy with a stress on food as political or democratic sustenance. It points to the need to embrace public ways of using …
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Sheldon Wolin once suggested that the state, not democracy, is the guardian of the international order. That order … capitalism. The paper explores the political meaning of critical theory in the time of late capitalism and construes democracy …
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Architecture is combination of the two Greek words archē and technē. Archē connotes the practice of power, sovereignty, dominion, and command but also initiation and action. Technē refers to technical knowledge that can be systematized but also something that is contrived as a skill or a...
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democracy in the long run. Many scholars argue that these parties thrive because of candidate-centered electoral rules, which …
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American policy-makers to simultaneously expect too much of democratization, and to think too little of liberal democracy. Its …The Bush administration's assertive effort to promote constitutional democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq cannot be judged … a success. An inadequate theoretical understanding of our own regime - of America's constitutional democracy - led …
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