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The Limits of Free Speech: Democratic Legitimacy in Canada and New Zealand

, 2013
This paper explores the balancing act between freedom of expression and hate speech. It takes its cue from a recent dialogue between Ronald Dworkin and Jeremy Waldron concerning democratic legitimacy. This dialogue forms the conceptual starting point for
Winsley, Alexander
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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
wiley   +1 more source

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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Does Banking Union Worsen the EU's Democratic Deficit? The Need for Greater Supervisory Data Transparency [PDF]

, 2015
Does banking union exacerbate the European Union's democratic deficit? Using Scharpf's 'input' and 'output' legitimacy concepts, it is argued in this article that its design does worsen the democratic deficit.
Admati, Amtenbrink, Baumann, Blum, Eijffinger, Flood, Follesdal, Gros, Hix, Howarth, Jabko, Kydland, Levine, Liedorp, Lupia, Majone, Majone, McCubbins, McCubbins, Moravcsik, Nier, Rogoff, Roulstone, Scharpf, Scharpf, Schmidt, Schmidt, Tadesse, Verdun, Yu   +29 more
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

Is Hyperpluralism Compatible with Dualist Constitutionalism? On Alessandro Ferrara's Conception of Multivariate Democratic Polity [PDF]

, 2017
In this essay I first set out the advantages the " multivariate democratic polity " framework proposed by Ferrara offers in comparison to other more consensus-based notions of democratic legitimacy.
Testa, Italo
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Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
wiley   +1 more source

The Limping Legitimacy of EU Lawmaking: A Barrier to Integration

European Papers, 2016
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2016 1(1), 29-54 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. - II. An historical legacy. - III. Lawmaking in the European Union: A delegated function? - III.1. Sub-delegation. -
Carol Harlow
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Norms, Legitimacy, and Global Financial Governance [PDF]

Despite regular and serious systemic volatility, reform of international financial architecture remains limited, retaining market-oriented characteristics and adjustment mechanisms. A failure of the architecture to focus on the political underpinnings of
Geoffrey R D Underhill, Xiaoke Zhang
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“The purpose of activism is to educate”: Young people's climate activism as and for education in the youth strike movement in England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract By skipping school for their cause, young climate strikers repeatedly demonstrated their priorities in 2019 and 2020. They regularly chose to sacrifice a day of their formal education in favour of collective action. This study asks what we can learn from the reflections of former youth strikers.
Loz J. Hennessy
wiley   +1 more source