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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
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Parliamentarian as a legal philosophy: subject of analysis
ClíoThis research examined parliamentarianism as a legal philosophy, focusing on its conceptual foundations and evolution in contemporary political systems.
Martin Manukyan
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Liberalism, Marxism and Democratic Theory Revisited: Proposal of a Joint Index of Political and Economic Democracy [PDF]
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2012 Liberalism and Marxism are two schools of thought which have left deep imprints in sociological, political and economic theory. They are usually perceived as opposite, rival approaches.
Angelo Segrillo
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Human evolution and the obstetrical dilemma: The pelvic floor hypothesis
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Human childbirth is mechanically difficult because a large‐headed, broad‐shouldered fetus must pass through a comparatively narrow, twisted bony birth canal. Traditional explanations of this “obstetrical dilemma” emphasize the role of bipedal locomotion in inhibiting the evolution of a wider, more spacious pelvis.
Barbara Fischer, Ekaterina Stansfield
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A ética do discurso e o modelo dos consensos democráticos: uma réplica a J. Eisenberg
Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2002 The present article is a critical analysis of the model proposed by José Eisenberg in "Justificação, Aplicação e Consenso: Notas sobre Democracia e Deliberação" (Dados, 44(1):195-213, 2001), which aims to explain the genesis of political arrangements in ...
Andrews Christina W.
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Democratic theory and indices of democratization [PDF]
, 1994 About the book: The rapid worldwide phase of democratization since the 1980s has stimulated a renewed interest in how we define and measure democracy. The contributors to this volume include leading political theorists, political scientists and experts in comparative government from across Europe.\ud \ud Defining and Measuring Democracy offers an ...
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Charlotte Pommer: Resistance fighter and female pioneer of German anatomy
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the biography and unique case of Charlotte Pommer (1914–2004), the only anatomist documented to have left the field during the Nazi period after encountering the regime's victims on the dissection table. While she is known for her resistance activities, newly presented documentation reveals her role as the provisional ...
Tim S. Goldmann
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Polis, 2011 En las últimas décadas hemos asistido a un resurgir de los debates en torno a la posibilidad y a las capacidades de la democracia deliberativa. Al igual que ha sucedido con otras teorías políticas -como el republicanismo-, la deliberación fue considerada
José Manuel Robles
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Political Corruption, Democratic Theory, and Democracy
Les Ateliers de l’Ethique, 2014 According to recent conceptual proposals, institutional corruption should be understood within the boundaries of the institution and its purpose. Political corruption in democracies, prominent scholars suggest, is characterized by the violation of ...
Doron Navot
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The ‘knowledge politics’ of democratic peace theory [PDF]
International Politics, 2013 How do academic ideas influence US foreign policy, under what conditions and with what consequences? This article traces the rise, ‘securitisation’ and political consequences of democratic peace theory (DPT) in the United States by exploring the work of Doyle, Diamond and Fukuyama.
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