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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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Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance

Psychology Science, 2020
In this article, we present a tool and a method for measuring the psychological and cultural distance between societies and creating a distance scale with any population as the point of comparison.
Michael Muthukrishna, A. Bell, J. Henrich, C. M. Curtin, A. Gedranovich, Jason McInerney, Braden Thue   +6 more
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Structural problems without structural solutions? Youth leaders' perceptions of their community

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract As young people explore and reflect on the conditions of their neighborhoods and communities, they can forge a critical consciousness—merging their perspectives and analysis to direct both individual and collective actions. Photovoice is a methodological tool that allows participants to document their perspectives and analysis and discuss with
Linnea L. Hjelm, Aishia A. Brown, Benjamin W. Fisher, Alice Story, Nubia Bennett   +4 more
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A VIDA "EMOCIONAL" DAS COISAS E O SIGNIFICADO DOS NÃO HUMANOS. UMA ANÁLISE DO VALOR DOS OBJETOS NA VIDA COTIDIANA DOS RESIDENTES DE UMA COMUNIDADE TERAPÊUTICA

Argumentos, 2017
This article analyzes the perceptions of the politicalof the students of two schools in Santa Maria -RS, one public and one private. In theoretical terms, two approaches that integrate Democratic Theory, one that understands ...
José Galdino Barreto Soares, Cleber Ori Cuti Martins   +1 more
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A Multilevel Theory of Democratic Secession

Migrating Borders, 2019
In this paper, the author sketches a relational approach that regards secession as the political upgrading of a self-governing territory within a multilevel constellation of polities.
R. Bauböck
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Responsible participation and housing: restoring democratic theory to the scene [PDF]

, 2008
Tensions between individual liberty and collective social justice characterise many advanced liberal societies. These tensions are reflected in the challenges posed for representative democracy both by participatory democratic practices and by the ...
Barnes M., Birchall J., Brownill S., Burton P., Clapham D., Clapham D., Clapham D., Cochrane A., Cole I., Cooke B., Cruikshank B., Curtice J., Etzioni A., Fung A., Geddes M., Goodlad R., Goodlad R., Goodlad R., Goodlad R., Gyford J., Held D., Hirst P., Hoggart K., Hoggett P., IAIN DOCHERTY, Imrie R., Lister R., Maloney W. A., Morrison Z., Mullen T., Pateman C., Phillips A., Putnam R., Raco M., Richardson A., Richardson A., Riseborough M., ROBINA GOODLAD, RONAN PADDISON, Scott S., Smith G., Tam H., Taylor M., White S., Young I. M., Young I. M.   +45 more
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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

Two concepts of agreement [PDF]

, 2002
A central problem of democracy is the aggregation of divergent individual inputs into overall collective decisions. Social-choice-theoretic impossibility results famously demonstrate the intractability of a large class of such aggregation problems.
List, Christian
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Unravelling the Referendum: An Analysis of the 2023 Australian Voice to Parliament Referendum Outcomes Across Capital Cities

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2023 Australian Voice to Parliament Referendum presented a pivotal moment in the nation's democratic landscape. Despite support for Indigenous well‐being, the referendum did not secure the necessary approval, prompting extensive analysis of its outcome.
Scott Baum, William Mitchell
wiley   +1 more source