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Democratizing Global ‘Bodies Politic’: Collective Agency, Political Legitimacy, and the Democratic Boundary Problem

open access: yesGlobal justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, 2017
This article outlines a new approach to answering the foundational question in democratic theory of how the boundaries of democratic political units should be delineated.
Terry Macdonald
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Revivalist Nationalism since World War II: From “Wake up, America!” to “Make America Great Again”

open access: yesReligions, 2016
Between 1945 and 1980, evangelicals emerged as a key political constituency in American politics, helping to form the Religious Right and work for the election of Ronald Reagan and other conservative Republicans.
Daniel Hummel
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Comparative study of local ownership and democratic governance of security sector reform: The case of Liberia and Sierra Leone

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2021
This article provided a comparative study of Liberia and Sierra Leone military reform and tried to understand the relationship and bridge the literature gap by interpreting the relationship between democratic governance and local ownership of (SSR).
Prince N. Wonnawon
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Direct democracy in high school

open access: yesJournal of Social Science Education, 2022
Keywords: School Community Assembly (SCA), direct democracy, school democratic governance Highlights: • Only 5% of Greek secondary education students are satisfied with the modus operandi of student communities and councils.
Theodosios Sykas, Filimon Peonidis
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The Current State of Democracy and Democratic Governance in Mongolia

open access: yesThe Mongolian Journal of International Affairs, 2013
The paper aimed to express that democracy development and promoting democratic governance in Mongolia brought specific changes; however, difficulties and challenges.
O Khatanbold
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Law Enforcement with a Democratic Government [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Law and Economics Review, 2016
In this paper, we analyze how political competition affects the design of public law enforcement policies. The article arrives at two main conclusions (assuming that the cost of enforcement is linear, criminal's type is uniformly distributed, and the society is wealthy enough): 1) electoral competition entails no loss of efficiency at equilibrium for ...
Langlais, Eric, Obidzinski, Marie
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Young children's perspectives of time: New directions for co‐constructing understandings of quality in ECEC

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð   +3 more
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Investigating elite behavior through field experiment in Brazil: do candidates answer more to core or swing voters? [PDF]

open access: yesBrazilian Political Science Review, 2013
This paper explores recent advances in experimental methodology to analyze elite behavior. Using an email experiment conducted in the context of the Brazilian 2008 municipal elections, we studied whether candidates target "swing" or "core" voters during ...
Paolo Spada, Feliciano de Sá Guimarães
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Masyarakat Sipil, Modal Sosial dan Tata Pemerintahan Yang Demokratis

open access: yesJSP: Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik, 2005
Discourse and promotion of democratic governance in developing countries has been part of agendas and interests of international donor agencies. This article shows that donor agencies closely refer to the Neo-Tocquevillian school in promoting democratic ...
- Suharko
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Democratic Governance: A Genealogy

open access: yesObservatoire de la société britannique, 2011
This essay draws on Democratic Governance to provide a genealogy of governance and to explore its implications for democracy. It explains how governance rose and spread as a consequence of new modernist theories and the public sector reforms that were inspired by these theories.
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