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System justification and democracy: Is liberal democracy part of the status quo? [PDF]

Br J Soc Psychol
Abstract Research has conceptualized system justification as an overall perception of legitimacy of the status quo. However, there is mixed evidence to determine whether individuals construe political systems and values that uphold them as part of such status quo.
Vargas Salfate S, Scheffauer R, Gil de Zúñiga H.   +2 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Supremacy Rule of Law in the Service of a Depoliticised Democracy—Pondering the Nature of the EU's ‘Social Contract’

European Law Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Seeing the EU roughly as a political system designed to remove the most essential political decisions from democratic control, while in a large part abiding by legal frameworks, we could speak about an opposition between technocratic legalism and democracy.
Dimitry V. Kochenov, Jacquelyn D. Veraldi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Social Contract in the European Union's Context

European Law Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article revisits social contract theory through a dialogue between Jule Goikoetxea Mentxaka and Antoni Abat i Ninet, questioning whether classical and contemporary contractarianism can account for structural forms of domination that precede and shape consent.
Antoni Abat i Ninet, Jule Goikoetxea Mentxaca   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Romanian’s Legislative Elections or Confirmation of the Political Periphery Theory

Sfera Politicii, 2013
Despite a formal liberal-democratic society and a supposed legal-rational authority (according to German sociologist Max Weber’s definition), post-communist Romania has continued to be a semi-peripheral country based on status.
Aurelian Giugăl, Ionuţ Ciobanu
doaj  

The Czech Republicans 1990-8: A populist outsider in a consolidating democracy [PDF]

, 2012
The chapter examines the Czech Repulicans (the SPR-RSČ) , a radical right-wing party represented in the Czech parliament between 1992 and 1998, as a case study of party-based oppositional outsider populism in a consolidating democracy.
HANLEY, S
core  

Linkage Between Electoral Cycle and the Discouragement of African Firms in the Credit Market

International Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the linkage between the electoral cycle and the discouragement of SMEs in the credit market of 14 African countries. It focuses on 12,145 firms over the period 2006–2020. The results obtained from Probit estimates show elections are negatively linked with the discouragement of firms in the credit market.
Cherif Abdramane, Simplice A. Asongu
wiley   +1 more source

Education in Nazi Germany [PDF]

, 2019
This essay investigates the sweeping educational reforms that the Nazi government implemented to use elementary education to further its political goals.
James, Ian R.
core   +1 more source

Compassionate Digital Innovation: A Pluralistic Perspective and Research Agenda

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital innovation offers significant societal, economic and environmental benefits but is also a source of profound harms. Prior information systems (IS) research has often overlooked the ethical tensions involved, framing harms as ‘unintended consequences’ rather than symptoms of deeper systemic problems.
Raffaele F. Ciriello, Lars Mathiassen, Marten Risius, Marc Cheong, Helana Scheepers, Emmanuelle Vaast   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ideology and teacher education in communist Russia and post-communist Russia

, 2012
published_or_final_version ; Education ; Master ; Master of ...
openaire   +2 more sources

To Desire What Is Nothing: Simone Weil, Asceticism and Psychoanalysis

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Georgie Newson
wiley   +1 more source