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Anti-politics and democratic innovation

, 2019
This chapter offers a critical analysis of current research on anti-politics and links to forms of democratic innovation. We find that ‘anti-politics’ remains a ‘contested’ concept, which to some extent reflects a lack of analytical depth and thinking ...
Jack Corbett, Matthew Flinders, Corbett, J, Flinders, M, Matthew Wood, Wood, M   +5 more
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Closing the Empirical Loop: Autonomous AI Agents Conduct End‐to‐end Research With Human Participants

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A multi‐agent AI system autonomously executes the complete scientific workflow, from hypothesis to manuscript, across three psychological studies involving 288 participants. The system designs experiments, collects real world data, develops analysis pipelines, and writes manuscripts with theoretical rigor comparable to experienced researchers.
Gabrielle Wehr, Reuben Rideaux, Amaya J. Fox, David R. Lightfoot, Jason Tangen, Jason B. Mattingley, Shane E. Ehrhardt   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reviewing Southern Africa’s Status as a Developmental Region through Governance and Development

Cihan University-Erbil Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
This case study discusses how the democratic governance principles and norms impact development in the SADC, and how institutional and structural reforms require greater participation by society to address the governance challenges encountered in this ...
Juliet E. Joseph
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Multi-stakeholder design of forest governance and accountability arrangements in Equator province, Democratic Republic of Congo [PDF]

, 2009
Good forest governance is an increasingly important topic for stakeholders in many different settings around the world. Two of the best-known international initiatives to improve forest governance are the regional Forest Law Enforcement and Governance ...
Klaver, D.C.
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CAR‐Engineered Cell Therapies Beyond Cancer: Reprogramming Fibrosis and Immune‐Mediated Inflammation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
CAR‐engineered cell therapies are expanding beyond cancer toward immune resetting, pathological‐cell clearance, matrix remodeling, and microenvironmental reprogramming in autoimmune, inflammatory, and fibrotic diseases. This Review compares CAR‐T, CAR‐macrophage, and CAR‐NK platforms and proposes controllable spatiotemporal reprogramming to align ...
Peng Jun Xu, Zhou Jing Zhang, Jing Jin, Hai Yuan Xu, Ya Xin Gu, Qian Qian Yang, You Lang Zhou   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The European Union: democratic legitimacy in a regional state?. CES Working Paper, no. 112, 2004 [PDF]

, 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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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone, Craig W. Carpenter, Courtney Bir, Andrew J. Van Leuven, Rebecca Wasserman‐Olin, Wendong Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is Youth's Engagement in Agribusiness an Opportunity or a Necessity? A Closer Look at the Situation in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole, Paul Martin Dontsop Nguezet, Shiferaw Feleke, Victor Manyong, Kamala Kaghoma Christian, Zoumana Bamba, Tahirou Abdoulaye   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

ACDI: 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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SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE IN DEMOCRATIC CONTEXTS [PDF]

Social 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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