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Democracy and Democracies

2021
Abstract The chapter examines understandings of democracy expressed in recent decades by international agreements, both global and regional, and by ‘official actors’ in the organizations created under those agreements such as political leaders, bureaucratic staff, and judges.
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Democracy or Pseudo-Democracy

Journal of Education for Business, 1953
(1953). Democracy or Pseudo-Democracy. The Journal of Business Education: Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 7-32.
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Cosmopolitical Democracy

New Left Review, 2000
When the nation-state loses many of its traditional powers, Daniele Archibugi argues, democracy requires a cosmopolitan political authority above it. But current ‘humanitarian’ interventions do not fulfil such higher norms—they betray them, as the self-arrogated prerogatives of the few.
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Varieties of Democracy: ‘Proporzdemokratie’, ‘Consensus Democracy’, Liberal Democracy and Direct Democracy

2015
This contribution builds on the work of the group of comparativists, Gerhard Lehmbruch among them, who took up the challenge to study the various forms in which the normative principles of democracy have been implemented in the real world. More specifically, it builds on the basic distinction between majoritarian and proportional systems that has been ...
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Chocolate Democracy

2023
AbstractSwiss citizens take pride in their export industry. Although chocolate figures among those products that the global public most frequently associates with its export industry, Switzerland also stands out thanks to the unique features of its model of democracy. Swiss citizens take pride in their democracy.
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Democracy, Democracy Support and Democracy Socialization

PCS – Politics Culture and Socialization
What is the current democratic situation in the world? How can we explain the presence or absence of democracy in countries? How much popular support is there for democracy? How can we explain variance in this support for democracy? These are the key questions to answer in this article.
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Democracy Intercepted

Science, 2023
Did platform feeds sow the seeds of deep divisions during the 2020 US presidential election?
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Social Democracy

2008
Abstract Social democracy has often been seen as a pragmatic compromise between capitalism and socialism. This chapter shows that social democracy is in fact a distinctive body of political thought: an ideology which prescribes the use of democratic collective action to extend the principles of freedom and equality valued by democrats in
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Democracy and social democracy

2018
The hands-on challenges involved in building up genuinely democratic mechanisms of self-government in Britain take a high profile in Tony Wright’s chapter focused on the democracy aspects within social democracy. Like it or not, Wright notes, the Brexit referendum was a remarkably successful democratic uprising, regardless of whether leaving the ...
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Reconsidering Democracy

Science Communication, 2003
What options are open for people—citizens, politicians, and other nonscientists—to become actively involved in and anticipate new directions in the life sciences? In addressing this question, this article focuses on the start of the Human Genome Project (1985-1990).
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