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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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Greening Democracy

2017
Greening Democracy explains how nuclear energy became a seminal political issue and motivated new democratic engagement in West Germany during the 1970s. Using interviews, as well as the archives of environmental organizations and the Green party, the book traces the development of anti-nuclear protest from the grassroots to parliaments. It argues that
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CONSOCIATIONAL DEMOCRACY

World Politics, 1969
In Gabriel A. Almond's famous typology of political systems, first expounded in 1956, he distinguishes three types of Western democratic systems: Anglo-American political systems (exemplified by Britain and the United States), Continental European political systems (France, Germany, and Italy), and a third category consisting of the Scandinavian and ...
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Finley’s Democracy/Democracy’s Finley

2013
This chapter discusses the background, contexts and contents of the two English editions and several translations of Democracy Ancient and Modern (DAM) by taking a leaf out of the Book of 'Mom'. The original published version of DAM contained just three chapters, based on the three lectures delivered at Rutgers in 1972.
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Social Democracy

2017
The Social Democratic party family is a central part of political life in the West. This book focuses on this party family as well as a unique political force in the industrialised world. It provides a critical comparative survey of when, where, how and why Social Democracy developed within established capitalist democracies.
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