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Seven Democratic Virtues of Liberal Education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This book argues that the liberal arts and sciences (LAS) model of education can inspire reform across higher education to help students acquire crucial civic virtues. Based on interviews with 59 students from LAS programmes across Europe, the book posits that LAS education can develop a range of citizenship skills that are central to the democratic ...
Dekker, Teun J.
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Nurturing democratic virtues: educators' practices [PDF]

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Education, 2006
One aspect of the role of educators in preparing learners for citizenship of a democracy, namely, the nurturing of appropriate virtues, is explored. In previous work I identified educators' priorities in this respect. This article reports on what educators say that they do.
Green, Lena
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Using political psychology to understand populism, intellectual virtues, and democratic backsliding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Political scientists have argued that populism is an ideology that can occur on both the left and right, whereby people begin to see politics as a battle between the people and a powerful elite that fails to represent the people’s interest and are ...
Ingrid Johnsen Haas
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A ‘Peaceable and Orderly Manner’: Town Meetings and other Popular Assemblies in the American Founding

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2019
The New England town meeting has often been seen as the archetypical deliberative citizen forum (see, e.g., Mansbridge 1980). More recently, political theorists have begun to appreciate the way in which any particular public forum might be better ...
Robert W. T. Martin
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A Neo-Aristotelian Approach to Democratic Virtues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar si, en nuestras sociedades plurales, individualistas y asentadas en el lenguaje normativo de los derechos y los principios, existe un lugar valioso y posible para una reactualización de la tradición de las virtudes.
Vidiella, Graciela Amanda   +1 more
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Professional Ethics and Democratic Citizenship: a Pragmatic Approach

open access: yesIsegoría, 2018
The paper understands the rise of ethical codes and professional ethics from the point of view of their contribution to the formation of a democratic citizenship.
Carlos Mougan Rivero
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Derechos humanos y virtudes fundamentales

open access: yesTópicos, 2013
When establishing the human rights within a democratic constitucionalism instead of in the human person's truth, the legalisms enter into an infinite wheel. Then, it is necessary to settle them in a pre-legal foundation, previous to any deliberation that
Carlos Llano Cifuentes
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Virtues, democracy, and online media: Ethical and epistemic issues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This book addresses current threats to citizenship and democratic values posed by the spread of post-truth communication. The contributors apply research on moral, civic, and epistemic virtues to issues involving post-truth culture.
Vaccarezza, M. S., Snow, N. E.
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The Vices and Virtues of “Populisms”

open access: yesSociologica, 2019
In this short essay, I will try to define contemporary populism in a “neutral” fashion; and to explore its virtues, as well as its (much better known) vices. To conclude, I shall attempt to draw up a balance sheet between its contrasting contributions to
Philippe C. Schmitter
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Populisms and Gender Equality

open access: yesSociologica, 2019
A comment on Philippe Schmitter's Essay "The Vices and Virtues of ‘Populisms’" (Sociologica, 13(1), 2019)
Zoe Lefkofridi
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