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Europe’s Democratic Deficit and Democratic Surplus

2020
The European Union’s founders learned about politics in the late nineteenth century, long before democracy became the touchstone for legitimacy. They relied on the traditional authority of the state to negotiate agreements with other countries. Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer and Alcide de Gaspari saw themselves as trustees of the common interests of ...
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Democratic Systems

2001
Digital signature is a breakthrough of modern cryptographic systems. A (t, n) threshold digital signature allows every set of cardinality t or more (out-of n) co-signers to authenticate a message. In almost all existing threshold digital signatures the threshold parameter t is fixed.
Hossein Ghodosi, Josef Pieprzyk
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Democratic Practice and Democratic Theory

2017
This chapter explains how political theory becomes disengaged from political facts. If the political theorists do not engage directly in politics, they might explore the relevance, the implications, and the meaning of such empirical facts as are contained in this and similar studies. Political theory written with reference to practice has the advantage
Bernard Berelson, Paul Lazarsfeld, William Mcphee   +2 more
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Democratic Despotism, Democratic Culture, and the Democratic Ideal

The Monist
Abstract In this paper, I outline Du Bois’s WWI-era theory of democracy, which comprises three parts: first, an historically specific explanation of the racially exclusionist character of the modern struggle for democracy; second, a justification of universal suffrage; and third, an account of democratic culture, the promotion of which ...
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The Consequences of Democratization

Journal of Democracy, 2009
Abstract: For the past few decades, scholars have been focusing on the causes of democratization. It is now time to devote systematic attention to analyzing the costs and benefits that democracy brings.
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Democratic Aspirations, Democratic Ambiguities

2013
Bill Ashcroft articulates the basic difficulty for Said’s work on Palestine/Israel: both “ordinary Israelis and Palestinians are locked into a structure of representations,” he writes, “a binary structure of alterity that originated before the establishment of Israel.”1 Edward Said’s response, according to Ashcroft, should be seen as a form of ...
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Democratic Realities and Democratic Dogma

American Political Science Review, 1930
Not long ago, a distinguished political scientist called attention to “the law of the pendulum” in politics. No sooner, he argued, does a broad political tendency establish itself than tendencies of opposite direction set in and gather force until the original tendency is reversed.
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Democratic politics, democratic culture

Orbis, 1993
T he Clinton administration has made spreading democracy, along with halting the spread of destabilizing weaponry and modernizing the armed forces, one of the central organizing principles of its foreign policy.’ This position echoes rising voices from various ends of the political spectrum, urging that the promotion of democracy be included as a major
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Democratic Challenges, Democratic Choices

2004
AbstractMost democratic citizens today are distrustful of politicians, political parties, and political institutions. Where once democracies expected an allegiant public, citizens now question the very pillars of representative democracy. This book documents the erosion of political support in virtually all advanced industrial democracies. Assembling a
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How democracies prevail: democratic resilience as a two-stage process

Democratization, 2021
Vanessa Boese-Schlosser, Amanda B. Edgell, Seraphine Maerz   +2 more
exaly