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War and endogenous democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Many episodes of extension of franchise in the 19th and especially in the 20th century occurred during or in the aftermath of major wars. Motivated by this fact, we offer a theory of political transitions which focuses on the impact of international ...
Ticchi, Davide, Vindigni, Andrea
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Activity Systems Modelling as a Complex Systemic Approach to Develop Learning Partnerships Between Community Initiatives and Municipal Governments

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper explores activity systems modelling (ASM) as a complex systemic approach to fostering learning partnerships between community initiatives and municipal governments. It highlights the increasing role of community‐led initiatives in cocreating public value and the challenges of collaboration due to differing perspectives on governance,
Peter Marks, Wouter Spekkink
wiley   +1 more source

New Media and the Arab Spring of 2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
About media and the Arab ...
Hudson, Robert Charles   +1 more
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Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Collaboration is ubiquitous in public policy life, with its presence and profile determined by prevailing governance conditions. Commitments to globalisation and marketisation in the latter part of the 20th century marked the onset of an era defined by collaboration, between and across tiers and spheres of government, with non‐state actors ...
Helen Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Naturalistic Decision-Making in Intentional Communities: Insights from Youth, Disabled Persons, and Children on Achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for Equality, Peace, and Justice

open access: yesChallenges
The seventeen UN SDGs address critical global challenges. Among them, Goal 10—reducing inequality—and Goal 16—promoting peace, justice, and strong institutions—serve as foundational pillars in democracies, enabling the achievement of all other goals ...
Carol Nash
doaj   +1 more source

A Regional Power Promoting Democracy? India’s Involvement in Nepal (2005–2008) [PDF]

open access: yes
According to the theory of “democratic peace,” India, as the largest democracy in the world and as South Asia’s predominant regional power, should be expected to promote democracy in neighboring countries.
Sandra Destradi
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Success and failure in foreign policy: Comparing Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd's regional order‐building initiatives

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
wiley   +1 more source

Political Islam and Democracy

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2008
On 14 May 2008, the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) held its ninth annual conference, entitled “Political Islam and Democracy: What Do Islamists and Islamic Movements Want?” at the Marriot Renaissance Hotel. This event brought together
Mariem Masmoudi
doaj   +1 more source

Thirty years of “Peace”: reconsidering the Kantian tradition in Foreign Relations

open access: yesStudia Humanitatis, 2016
The article considers the researcher’s ideas evolving the reconsideration of neo-Kantian approaches to theorizing in foreign relations regarding the effects of globalization upon the international peace in particular.
Mykhaylenko Maksym Valeriyovych
doaj  

THE ACHILLES HEEL OF THE SOVIET SOLDIER

open access: yesScientia Militaria, 2012
In the 1930s democratic people watched with growing incredulity as the world's political systems broke up: the Depression gave rise to disintegration, disintegration led to anarchy, and anarchy to war.
J.D. Bredenkamp
doaj   +1 more source

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