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Evaluating democratic governance: A bottom up approach to European Union enlargement [PDF]

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Although analyses of democracy and governance may be complementary rather than in conflict, they are not identical. This article compares the EU criteria for evaluating applicants for membership with those of democracy indexes.
Rose, Richard
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Illusionary, silencing and civilising - (un)democratic practices in school governance

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Successive British Governments have promulgated policies and initiatives that have not only resulted in the marketisation of education but have, arguably, constructed a democratic deficit in relation to who represents the local in a neoliberal ...
Forrester, G., Hetherington, J.
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Transboundary Water Governance in the Kabul River Basin: Implementing Environmental and Public Diplomacy Between Pakistan and Afghanistan

open access: yes, 2019
This research highlights the outcomes of the environmental diplomacy workshop held between members of civil society from Afghanistan and Pakistan on water cooperation in the Kabul River Basin, one of the most heavily conflicted transboundary river basins
Sgorbati, Susan   +16 more
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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effective and democratic long-term radioactive waste governance: Lessons from Europe

open access: yesTATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis
Radioactive waste management (RWM) presents a complex long-term governance challenge due to its decades-to-centuries-long timeframes and associated uncertainties.
Romy Dekker, Rinie van Est
doaj   +1 more source

Democratic Governance and Participatory Budgeting: A Theoretical Discourse of the Nigerian Experience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper examines the issue of Democratic governance and participatory budgeting in the context of their relevance challenges and implications for the public sector finances and or public spending and the masses in Nigeria It specifically focuses on
Dr. S. T. Akindele
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Democratic limitations of urban climate governance : proactive and reactive citizen action in four Scandinavian cities [PDF]

open access: yes
In this article we examine the limitations of democratic governance of climate transformation in cities. Advancing the literatures on urban climate governance and climate urbanism, the article asks, how do urban governance institutions manage the variety
Smas, Lukas,   +6 more
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Diagnosing the system: Mental health, necropolitical uncare, and the abolition of migration detention

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
wiley   +1 more source

Democratic instability in post-colonial Zimbabwe and Pakistan: a comparative analysis

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences
This study examines democratic instability in Zimbabwe and Pakistan through a detailed analysis of historical, political, economic, and social factors with the aim of explaining the underlying causes of democratic instability in these countries.
Shahid Minhas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tabling sustainable commodities through private governance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Over the past few decades, new types of private governance arrangements arose which increasingly shape outcomes in global governance. The object of this dissertation is a specific form of private governance arrangement which emerged in the early 2000s in
Environmental Governance   +2 more
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