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Democratic Practice and Democratic Theory

2017
This chapter explains how political theory becomes disengaged from political facts. If the political theorists do not engage directly in politics, they might explore the relevance, the implications, and the meaning of such empirical facts as are contained in this and similar studies. Political theory written with reference to practice has the advantage
Bernard Berelson, Paul Lazarsfeld, William Mcphee   +2 more
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Democratic theory

Habermas and European Integration (second edition), 2018
S. Grewal
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Towards a Democratic Theory of Silence

Political Studies, 2021
Contemporary democratic theory is focused on empowering the voices of citizens in collective decision-making. The opposite of voice is silence. Increasingly, citizens are remaining silent rather than vocally participating in politics.
S. Gray
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Deparochializing Democratic Theory

2020
Melissa S. Williams
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Comparative Democratic Theory

Democratic Theory, 2020
This article sketches a theoretical framework and research agenda for what is labeled as “Comparative Democratic Theory.” It is introduced as an approach to democratic theory which is informed by conceptual and methodological debates from “Comparative ...
A. Weiss
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Sound Reasoning: Why Accent Bias Matters for Democratic Theory

Journal of Politics, 2019
Accent bias, namely, an unwarranted prejudice toward interlocutors based on the sound of their speech, is a subtle yet powerful feature in the political life of language. This is especially so in democratic polities characterized by a diverse soundscape.
Yael Peled, Matteo Bonotti
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Populism and Democratic Theory

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2019
Commentators routinely describe “populism” as vague. Some argue that the early US populists, who coined the modern usage, were not populists. We disagree and identify this common conceptual core: the “people” in a moral battle against “elites.” The core ...
Jane J. Mansbridge, S. Macedo
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A multiperspectival approach to democratic theory: Five lessons for democratic innovations

Politics
Deliberative democratic theory and the practice of deliberative minipublics currently hold a dominant position within the study of democratic innovations.
Hans Asenbaum
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Democratic Data: A Relational Theory For Data Governance

, 2020
Data governance law — the law regulating how data about people is collected, processed, and used — is the subject of lively theorizing. Concerns over datafication (the transformation of information or knowledge about people into a commodity) and its ...
S. Viljoen
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Democratic Opposition and Democratization Theory

Government and Opposition, 1997
Abstract About a quarter of a century past the beginning of the “third democratic wave” in politics, what are some of the most important implications to be drawn about the role of the democratic opposition in the processes of democratization, and in new democratic governance?
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