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Doing Democratic Theory Democratically
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2022 Over centuries, democratic theory has developed emancipatory ideals of inclusion, agency and transparency. These ideals, however, have scarcely been applied to the process of theorizing itself.
Hans Asenbaum
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The challenge of radical reform in pluralist democracies
European Law Open, 2022 Martijn Hesselink proposes a new European charter of private law that would correct the deficiencies in private law identified by Katharina Pistor. While Hesselink aims to achieve radical reform by way of radical democracy, this article argues that ...
Aditi Bagchi
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Positivism and Reasonableness: Authoritarian Leanings in New Atheism’s Thinking
Religions, 2022 Various contemporary phenomena of social regression and authoritarianism are related to religious actors, movements, and beliefs. This text, however, seeks to follow this up with the political–theoretical argumentation that New Atheism has to be ...
Michael Roseneck
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The Social Ontology of Democracy
Journal of Social Ontology, 2019 This paper offers an account of the social foundations of a theory of democracy. It purports to show that a social ontology of democracy is the necessary counterpart of a political theory of democracy. It notably contends that decisions concerning basic
Roberto Frega
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Machiavelli and Tocqueville on War and Armies
Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2023 In the Democracy in America’s chapters on war and armies in the transition from the aristocratic to the democratic social state (état social), Tocqueville briefly draws on Machiavelli regarding the conquest of a country with or without intermediary ...
Spyridon Tegos
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Civic Virtue in the Deliberative System
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2019 The normative stability of a deliberative and democratic political order and the creativity and quality of the decisions its produces depend on citizens developing civic orientations and capacities through participation in deliberative events aiming at ...
Daniel Hutton Ferris
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(Re)presentation: pTA citizens' juries and the jury trial
Utrecht Law Review, 2007 In this contribution we argue 'that juries make sense'. By this we mean that it makes sense to introduce or sustain lay participation in judicial decision making, and that this is the case because juries in fact 'make sense' because they generate new ...
Mireille Hildebrandt, Serge Gutwirth
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As teorias da democratização frente às democracias latino-americanas realmente existentes
Opinião Pública, 2006 As graves crises políticas e sociais sofridas por vários países latino-americanos nos últimos anos exigem uma urgente reformulação dos modelos teórico-analíticos com os quais têm sido estudados os processos de democratização no continente.
Gabriel E. Vitullo
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The Democratic Peace Theory and Its Problems
Jurnal Ilmiah Hubungan Internasional, 2015 This essay discusses the democratic peace theory from the prespective of both its proponents and opponents. The puzzle of the democratic peace theory has long been debated methodologically and empirically.
Munafrizal Manan
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Acta Didactica Norden, 2023 Contributing to secondary students’ perspective-taking is one of the main purposes of social science education in school, closely related to the democratic mandate.
Nora Elise Hesby Mathé
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