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From skepticism to mutual support: towards a structural change in the relations between participatory budgeting and the information and communication technologies? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Until three years ago, ICT Technologies represented a main “subordinate clause” within the “grammar” of Participatory Budgeting (PB), the tool made famous by the experience of Porto Alegre and today expanded to more than 1400 cities across the planet. In

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¿Te ha tocado? El sorteo llega a la política de Madrid. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In early 2019 Madrid launched the first permanent citizen participation scheme in which members are chosen by lot: the Observatory of the City. Although the scheme was abandoned by the new government after the May 2019 elections, the Madrid experiment ...
Ganuza, Ernesto, Menendez Blanco, Maria
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Virility, fascism and regeneration in post‐Civil War Spain: On interpretations of literary Romanticism under the Franco regime

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 259-272, March 2026.
Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
wiley   +1 more source

El Instituto Federal Electoral, un análisis de sus elementos democratizadores = (The Federal Electoral Institute, an analysis of its democratization elements) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Resumen. El Instituto Federal Electoral ha sido poco estudiado en lo relativo a los aspectos endógenos de su actividad, en este análisis se proponen cinco elementos que se presumen son responsables de favorecer la transición a la democracia que México ha
Sáenz López, Karla Annett Cynthia
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Education for Global Citizenship. New ways to think, to act, to learn [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In this article the author introduces a pilot project for international educational partnership in the field of Education for Global Citizenship outlining not only the project itself but its conceptual background. (DIPF/Orig.)In diesem Beitrag stellt die
Tchimino, Marcela
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Academic Freedom as a Contested Public Good: Ideology, Trust and Public Attitudes in the UK and Japan

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Academic freedom is widely regarded as a cornerstone of democratic society, yet its public legitimacy remains contested. This article examined how citizens in two democracies (Japan and the United Kingdom) understand and evaluate academic freedom across different issue domains.
Steven David Pickering   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Judicial review, reasons and technology: a glance at constitutionalism and democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Judicial review reflects the level of commitment between constitutionalism and democracy in contemporary States. Yet democracy as the sovereign government of the people implies a tension with constitutionalism as the rule of law.
Karam de Chueiri, Vera
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Coalition Opportunity Structures and Advocacy Coordination in Consensus and Majoritarian Democracies

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Research on advocacy coalitions suggests that belief homophily—the tendency of actors to coordinate based on shared policy beliefs—drives coalition formation. However, coalition opportunity structures, which are shaped by institutional contexts, may influence the extent to which belief homophily matters.
Keiichi Satoh   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

FRAGILIDADES DAS DEMOCRACIAS NA AMÉRICA LATINA: UMA ANÁLISE EMPÍRICA

open access: yesDireito e Desenvolvimento, 2017
A terceira onda de democratização repercutiu na América Latina e proporcionou uma série de mudanças nas suas instituições políticas. Este artigo visa tratar da democracia e as suas fragilidades na América Latina após a ‘terceira onda’.
Armando Albuquerque
doaj   +1 more source

Watching Radical Geography: Spaces and Practices of Authoritarian Surveillance in ‘Democratic’ and ‘Dictatorial’ Brazil

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper addresses stories of surveillance of Brazilian critical/radical geographers, drawing on innovative sources. That is, the folders and reports through which the political police and related institutions watched critical and radical scholars during the 20th century in all Brazilian states and abroad, under both ‘dictatorial’ and ...
Federico Ferretti, Guilherme Ribeiro
wiley   +1 more source

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