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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe, Judith Bessant, Madeline Drake   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stuck on the Rubicon? The Resonance of Ideas of Demoi-cracy in Media Debates [PDF]

, 2014
Final draftTheories of demoi-cracy have recently gained salience in the continuous debate on a legitimate democratic Euro polity. Demoi-crats argue that multiple demoi can provide the European Union (EU) with its much sought-after democratic legitimacy ...
Beetz, Jan P.
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Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks, Georgia van Toorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Followers First: Rethinking the Legitimacy of Political Leadership

Politics and Governance
The study of political leadership has traditionally focused on leaders, often overlooking how followers actively shape legitimacy through attribution and contestation.
Femke van Esch, Rudolf Metz
doaj   +1 more source

Less than meets the eye: Democratic legitimacy and deliberative theory [PDF]

, 2000
About the book: Democratic Innovation is an original look at the political future of democracy, exploring the latest ideas aimed at renewing popular power.
Saward, Michael
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Protecting popular constituent power: Examining New Zealand's role in the constitution-making episodes of the Cook Islands and Niue [PDF]

, 2014
This paper assesses the democratic legitimacy of the constitution-making processes that brought into being the Constitutions of the Cook Islands and Niue.
Mead, Sarah
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“You're this person who's providing light”: Embodied responses to information loss and transition within LGBTQIA+ communities

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper reports on findings from 15 semi‐structured interviews with LGBTQIA+ individuals within the United States who have experienced the loss of one or more LGBTQIA+ information spaces. The paper specifically focuses on how such losses occurred and the information transitions experienced by the participants in response to this loss ...
Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie
wiley   +1 more source

POVERTY, AUTONOMY AND DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY IN NIGERIA [PDF]

Annals of the "Ovidius" University of Constanţa. Political Science Series
This study undertakes a philosophical exploration of the relationship between material deprivation and democratic participation in Nigeria. It interrogates the moral and political implications of conducting elections in contexts where poverty severely
Gbenga Cornelius FASIKU
doaj   +1 more source

We the people? - Theorising constitutional democratic legitimacy to reflect on and enrich New Zealand's constitution

, 2014
This paper explores the concept of constitutional democratic legitimacy and the democratic legitimacy of New Zealand’s constitution in particular. In so doing, it considers Bruce Ackerman’s constitutional theory in We the People, Volume 1: Foundations ...
Lockie, Georgia
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
wiley   +1 more source