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Food democracy is an important issue for human security globally. This paper seeks to address the effects of historical …
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municipal corruption and reform, political participation, and democracy in immigrant communities, the paper examines the Bell …
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presents a challenge for the conceptions of agonistic democracy developed by Beltran and others and argues that what is called …
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of American democracy. While most studies isolate and consider separately the three documents produced by Beaumont and … Tocqueville, this study reads Tocqueville's Democracy in American (1835), Beaumont's novel Marie, Or Slavery in the United States … of prisons, slavery, and democracy …
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The standard long-used to evaluate contemporary democratic institutions – congruence between the people's preferences and policy outcomes – has been challenged by both empirical and normative scholarship. Appealing to contemporary democratic theory and the institutional “case” of direct...
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No study to date has addressed the potential of deliberative democracy in post-conflict societies. Merging basic … democracy is not only possible in post-conflict societies, nor is it merely desirable in the normative sense. Post …-conflict societies are to transform the deadlocks of civil war. However, we cannot speak of deliberative democracy in post …
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Scarcely mentioned in the debate over NYC's proposed Park 51 Mosque is the earlier controversy that surrounded the building that would replace the Twin Towers. Yet underlying both debates are questions about the proper constitution of the democratic community as well as its appropriate...
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Why turn to populism as a resource for understanding the challenges and possibilities of democracy, when we live amidst … social, economic, and political constellations that pervert both the populist foundations of democracy and the democratic … politics and democracy are generated by left and right forms of populism, in what ways they reinforce existing configurations …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of military aid and arms transfers on Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID). The “democratic peace� literature has found empirical evidence for the claim that democracies rarely, if ever, engage each other in militarized disputes....
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forms of decentralization conducive to a genuinely more participatory democracy? The argument rests on a comparison between … three participatory designs in Marseille, Montreal and Quebec. Has decentralization encouraged participatory democracy in …
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