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Governance und der Verlust politischer Tugend
ENGLISH: Not only do institutions depend on accommodating virtues, virtues in turn rely, to some extent, on institutions. Virtues can be crowded in and stabilized as well as crowded out by institutions.
Christian Hiebaum
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This article examines decentralized government initiatives that social democrats faced at the municipal level in Argentina during the period known as "semi-democracy" (1958-1966). In order to analyze this situation, we consider as particularly suggestive
Silvana Ferreyra
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The Distributive Consequences of Active Welfare Policies in Europe
ABSTRACT This article examines the distributive consequences of active welfare policies in Europe by analysing tier‐specific investments in individualised employment services across four European welfare states: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Deborah Jackwerth‐Rice +1 more
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Good student-athlete representation
The current landscapes of intercollegiate sports and higher education are experiencing shifts toward more democratic representation. In college sport, student-athlete representatives are more engaged in policy decisions, hold voting rights, and are ...
Vicki Schull, Lisa A. Kihl
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DEMOCRATIC VIRTUE, COMPARATIVE ETHICS, AND CONTEMPORARY ISLAM [PDF]
ABSTRACTThis essay illustrates the kind of moral analysis Jeffrey Stout advocates in Democracy and Tradition by way of examining a conversation among Muslims that took place between June and December 2002. Their debate centers on al‐Qaída's legitimacy as God's chosen defender of Islam, which is called into question due to the tension between al‐Qaída's
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Seven Democratic Virtues of Liberal Education [PDF]
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 ...
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The EU's Strategy for Sustainability: A Landmark Turn With the European Green Deal?
ABSTRACT While the European Green Deal (EGD) has been widely recognized as a milestone in the EU's sustainability strategy, scholars disagree on the nature of the policy change it represents. Critics highlight its limited social and environmental ambitions, despite its portrayal as a “man on the moon” moment.
Ekaterina Domorenok, Franco Gatti
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Caught in the Loop: Basic Psychological Need Frustration and Conspiracy Mentality in Adolescence
ABSTRACT Introduction Conspiracy mentality has been associated with various detrimental societal outcomes. However, research on its predictors and consequences has been focused almost exclusively on adults. Guided by Self‐Determination Theory, this study examined reciprocal associations between basic psychological need frustration and conspiracy ...
Anne‐Sophie Denault +3 more
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Nurturing Virtues with Digital Democratic Innovations
Abstract Digital democratic innovations (DDIs) have been widely discussed as a promising way of engaging citizens in political decision-making. Extensive research has focused on designing DDIs that are deliberative, inclusive, and representative.
Anna Mikhaylovskaya, Élise Rouméas
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Positive Freedom and the Social Meaning of Money
ABSTRACT Semiotic objections to markets hold that buying and selling certain things – for example, sex, body parts, votes, surrogacy services – expresses that those things are fungible with money, which has only profane value. This article offers a more fundamental challenge to semiotic critiques of market.
Andrew Allison +2 more
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