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Municipal Health Policy Development, Planning and Implementation : Addressing Youth Risk Factors Through Participatory Governance

Tataw, David - 2010

As urban public health problems have increased in number and intensity within the years, cities without Public Health Departments have used democratic participatory governance strategies to address public health problems facing youths. The Pomona Youth and Family Master Plan (YFMP) was developed...

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The Mortal Citizen and Posthumous Citizenship

Kinney, Jennifer - 2010

This paper will discuss the legal construction of a mode of citizenship that follows citizens from a live subjectivity to a posthumous state of regulated identity. Using a Foucaudian lens, documentary and legal evidence will be deployed to argue that every individual's potential for death...

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What Motivates Citizens to Participate in Environmental Decisions : Investigating the Barriers to Civic Environmentalism

Randol, Blake - 2010

environmental decisions, which is a significant obstacle to realizing the normative goals of deliberative democracy …

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'Energy Descent Planning' and Participatory Local Governance

Wayne, Foord - 2013

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The Scope and Bias of Participation and Policy in Pacific Coast Forest Politics

Van Dyk, Bob - 2010

This paper compares the formal system for making state-level forest policy in California, Oregon, and Washington State. The official mechanisms for creating forest policy and the interests of the participants in policy boards and committees are described, categorized, and analyzed in light of...

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Responding to a Slow Moving Catastrophe : Addressing Forest Dieback in the San Bernardino National Forest

Petersen, Brian - 2010

Forest dieback events are currently killing trees across millions of hectares of western North America. Unlike traditional focusing events, these represent slow-moving catastrophes that play out over the course of a decade or longer. This paper analyzes bark beetle and wildfire induced focusing...

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Identity and Democratic Engagement

Eisenberg, Avigail I. - 2011

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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New Hopes for Democracy or a Pirated Elite? Swedish Social Media Users and Political Mobilisation

Gustafsson, Nils - 2014

In this study, a group of Swedish social media users – politically active as well as “unpolitical” users – are interviewed in focus groups as well as individually about their attitudes towards online political participation, providing a deeper, more informed view of how social media...

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Direct Democracy and the Mobilization of Women Voters

Boehmke, Frederick J. - 2016

. In that paper, we argue that there are four possible mechanisms related to direct democracy that could lead to this …

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Religion, Democracy, and Work : Emerson and Economic Crisis

Cladis, Mark - 2010

of his work are enhanced. Among other things, we stand to learn much about his contributions to the democracy theory of … that he is the Philosopher of Democracy.ﾔ I will highlight Emersonﾒs early and late religiosity, mainly focusing on the … relation to democracy, or what I will call Emerson's spiritual democracy. I will identify two central and interrelated …

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