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Purpose This paper aims to analyse a set of converging trends underpinning a larger phenomenon called science 2.0 and to assess what are the most important implications for scientific method and research institutions. Design/methodology/approach It is based on a triangulation of exploratory...
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theories of democracy, the purpose of this paper is to discuss two theories: the consensual and the agonistic. The distinction …
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, human rights, and democracy.  …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to add to efforts to treat the relationship between accounting, democracy and … emancipatory praxis in relation to accounting that takes democracy and difference seriously. Design/methodology/approach – Critical … praxis taking democracy and difference seriously. Findings – A vision and framing of emancipatory praxis vis-à-vis accounting …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer greater insight in the role of blogs in the creation of a more transparent news media system and a more democratic political reality. Design/methodology/approach – Framing theory is employed as a conceptual tool to re‐interpret existing...
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democracy, the purpose of this paper is to examine two interfaces between everyday life and democratic politics and considers …
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Tremendous challenges face those charged with reconstructing the economies and workforces of the formerly Communist Eastern European ations. The temptation is great to apply proven Western European and American models to the problem. There are clear dangers in doing so if an attempt is made to...
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one another “the norm of parity of participation” (Fraser, 2006), “communicative democracy” (Young, 1993) and the “matrix … thought in democracy since the 1960s is proposed: how is it possible to democratize inclusively? Findings The reproduction of … domination through apparatuses for the extension of democracy is both possible and probable. So, to democratize inclusively, it …
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This article asserts that modern representative democracy was never intended nor designed to function as a democracy … hierarchical power structures. A transformation of modern representative democracy is underway and information and communication … representative democracy are highlighted by the decline in voting turnout rates and a high level of dissatisfaction with and distrust …
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Democracy, because of its complex structure and basic nature, is a challenge as the struggle for consensus and … life, exist continuously. Despite its vulnerabilities, democracy is also a promise for the values it upholds and promotes …, for its adaptability and for the freedoms it offers. However, each “democracy” needs to be custom made for a specific …
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