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Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In September 2021, following the global COVID‐19 pandemic, the Department for Education introduced a national standardised digital Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) for all English 4‐year‐old children. We analyse RBA and its associated Quality Monitoring Visits, as a further intensification of the new public management of early years ...
Guy Roberts‐Holmes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Democratic theory and indices of democratization [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 ...
openaire  

Just War, Democracy, Democratic Peace [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Recent polemical controversy over whether a just war can be fought in order to promote democracy has discouraged serious consideration of the relationship between principles in just war theory and the democratic ideal.
Mark Evans
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Making it explicit – Sustained shared thinking dialogue as a way to explore children's perspectives on quality in German early childhood education and care

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract To negotiate quality in early childhood education and care, we must ask from different perspectives what constitutes a good centre for children. The children themselves have only recently been identified as a resource to contribute to that discussion.
Katrin Macha   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Dutch Political Reformed Party (SGP) and Passive Female Suffrage: A Comparison of Three High Court Judgments From the Viewpoint of Democratic Theory

open access: yesMerkourios, 2013
Traditionally, in the Netherlands the idea was that political parties were essentially private associations in whose internal affairs the state ought not to interfere.
Jaco van den Brink   +1 more
doaj  

The Democratic Peace Unraveled: It’s the Economy [PDF]

open access: yes
Recent research indicates that the democratic peace—the observation that democratic nations rarely fight each other—is spurious: that advanced capitalism accounts for both democracy and the democratic peace (Mousseau 2009). This is not a trivial prospect:
Michael Mousseau
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Democratic Professionalism in Public Services [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This book provides a set of ideas which will aim to contribute to the creation of democratic public services which value service users and public service professionals so that they support and complement each and are not set against each other.
Lethbridge, Jane
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
wiley   +1 more source

Rain and the democratic window of opportunity [PDF]

open access: yes
According to the economic approach to political transitions, transitory negative economic shocks can open a window of opportunity for democratic improvement. Testing the theory requires a source of transitory shocks to the aggregate economy.
Antonio Ciccone, Markus Brückner
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