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SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE IN DEMOCRATIC CONTEXTS [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Education Research Review
This paper critically examines the contested relationship between scientific authority and democratic legitimacy-two foundational pillars of contemporary governance whose normative underpinnings and institutional logics often stand in tension.
Patrick AGYARE
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Western Countries Have Shown Poorer Rather Than Better Performance Against COVID-19

open access: yesDr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Journal, 2022
Western countries have been subjectively claimed to have performed much better than other countries in combatting COVID-19 because of their alleged democratic governance.
Alberto Boretti
doaj   +1 more source

Push button parliament–why India needs a non-partisan, recorded vote system

open access: yesACDI: Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional, 2011
Decisions of national importance are made by Parliamentary voting. Yet Indian Members of Parliament (MPs) vote with a remarkable lack of freedom and accountability.
Shalaka Patil
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The European Union: democratic legitimacy in a regional state?. CES Working Paper, no. 112, 2004 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Democratic legitimacy for the EU is problematic if it is seen as a future nation-state. If instead the EU were seen as a regional state—with shared sovereignty, variable boundaries, composite identity, compound governance, and a fragmented democracy in ...
Schmidt, Vivien A.
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Democratic innovation in Australasia

open access: yes, 2023
Diversity in political regimes and cultures across the region of Australasia demand a nuanced understanding of democratic innovation. In this chapter, we highlight prominent democratic innovations in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Small Island ...
Alver, J, Thompson, N, Parry, LJ
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Monopolizando el centro. El AKP y el incierto rumbo de la democracia turca

open access: yesTiempo Devorado, 2016
La pérdida de impulso reformador y el creciente autoritarismo de la más reciente fase de gobierno del AKP nos indican que la democracia turca está en crisis.
Ziya Öniş
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Managing Democratic Education within Pesantren Traditions: A Multi-Case Study of Islamic Boarding Schools in Cianjur, Indonesia

open access: yesTarbawi
Democratic education in Islamic boarding schools (pesantren) is frequently understood as an implicit cultural outcome of religious traditions rather than a product of intentional institutional governance.
Ahmad Khori   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contesting Institutional Engineering for Decentralized Natural Resource Governance in Malawi

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2016
In line with 1993/1994 political change from autocratic to democratic rule in Malawi, centralized natural resources management has been replaced by decentralized approaches.
Sane Pashane Zuka
doaj   +1 more source

Democratising Sustainability Transformations : Assessing the Transformative Potential of Democratic Practices in Environmental Governance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Many democracies find it difficult to act swiftly on problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss. This is reflected in long-standing debates in research and policy about whether democratic practices are capable of fostering timely, large-scale ...
Pickering, Jonathan; id_orcid   +30 more
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NETWORKS AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE: THE CASE OF A PUBLIC INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION OF MINAS GERAIS – BRAZIL

open access: yesRedes, 2013
This paper is about the presentation of the social network of partnerships in 2010 around a Federal Institution of Higher Education – IFES, located at Minas Gerais State.
Edimilson Eduardo da Silva   +2 more
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