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Content Moderation and the Quest for Democratic Legitimacy
Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 2022 The paper analyzes the public controversy incited by the introduction of the Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) in Germany. This law obliges social media platforms to delete unlawful content from their sites and has received international attention as a ...
Laura Fichtner
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, 2018 This article revisits the debate on the contribution of NGOs to the democratic legitimacy of international law. While the primary focus of this debate seems to be on the question of whether or not NGOs are a justifiable source for the democratic ...
M. Beijerman
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
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Empirical legitimacy as core of comparative democracy research
Frontiers in Political ScienceLegitimacy is a central resource for all political systems. This include democracies as autocracies. For democracies, you need the acceptance of the normative concept of democracy by the citizens.
Gert Pickel, Gert Pickel, Susanne Pickel
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Franck’s Right to Democratic Governance and the Role of Democratic Sanctions
Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal, 2018 In 1992, Tomas Franck conceptualized the democratic entitlement theory — a new approach regarding the international validation of governance, which was previously based solely on the “doctrine of effective control.” This led to the emergence of a new ...
Bohdan Bernatskyi
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Majority Rule, Compromise and the Democratic Legitimacy of Referendums
Swiss Political Science Review, 2018 Cheneval and el-Wakil () defend referendums as a mechanism that allows a popular majority to express itself in situations where the standard channels of representative democracy fail to include the concerns of certain citizens and end up reflecting the ...
R. Bellamy
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy +2 more
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The birth of modern Norwegian police law
Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2023 In the article ‘Norwegian police law, crime prevention and its (need for more) democratic legitimacy’ John Reidar Nilsen argues that Norwegian police law has lacked democratic legitimacy, and in some respects still does.
Geir Heivoll
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Demokratyczny status sądowej kontroli konstytucyjności prawa
Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2016 Constitutional review of legislation is the power to examine statutes for their conformity with the constitution. This competence is performed by the judiciary.
Wojciech Ciszewski
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