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Equality as the name of democracy - Bogdana Koljević: Democracy of contemporary French poststructuralism, Serbian State Publisher of Textbooks, Belgrade, 2018 [PDF]

Sociološki Pregled, 2019
This exceptional book for our public opens dilemmas about the potential of democracy as it is, an opinion which is frequently taken for granted or rejected here, in a rather arbitrary manner.
Bratina Boris R.
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Democracy and direct action across borders

Journal of Human Environmental Studies, 2013
Direct action is often regarded as a response to democratic deficit because it can sensitize the general public to the cause of the marginalized, stimulating communication among individuals of different walks of life in society. However, such theoretical
Ko Nomura
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FEATURES OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN SWITZERLAND: POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANALYSIS

Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна: Серія "Питання політології", 2022
The tools of realization of direct democracy in Switzerland are considered. The Swiss political system, levels of government and distribution of powers between institutions are analyzed.
Svitlana Denysiuk
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Small RNA pathways in mammalian oocytes

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Three distinct small RNA pathways operate in mammalian oocytes: RNAi interference (RNAi), the microRNA (miRNA) pathway, and the PIWI‐associated RNA (piRNA) pathway. These pathways use small RNAs to guide sequence‐specific repression and contribute to oocyte biology by targeting genes and mobile elements or appear insignificant since different ...
Petr Svoboda, Josef Pasulka
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Does direct democracy increase civic virtues? A systematic literature review

Frontiers in Political Science
Due to widespread citizen disenchantment with representative democracy, the introduction of direct-democratic institutions is often promoted as a promising remedy to overcome the current democratic crisis. Theorists of participatory democracy have argued
Laurent Bernhard
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Direct Democracy and the Rights of Sexual Minorities

Direito Público, 2021
Direct democracy is now being regarded as both an alternative of and an adjustment for representative constitutional democracy. Nevertheless, as is discussed in this article, direct democracy devices, particularly in those legal systems where no quorum ...
Michele Di Bari
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The Latvian direct democracy tools in a comparative European context

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2019
This article analyses and compares the legal tools of direct democracy in Latvia and other European countries. Based on comparison, the author draws concludes the shortcomings of the legal framework of direct democracy in the Constitution of the Republic
Fabio Ratto Trabucco
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Study of the Impact of Democracy and Corruption on Foreign Direct Investment in West and East Asian Countries [PDF]

پژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2021
The purpose of this research is to study the effects of democracy and corruption on attracting foreign direct investment in West and East Asia. To do this, a dynamic panel model and generalized method of moments are employed over the period 2009-2018 ...
Hadiseh Taghizadeh Elyas Abad, Ali Rezazadeh, khalil jahangiri   +2 more
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From energy provision to protein synthesis: Tunnelling nanotubes as mediators of intercellular metabolic cooperation in cancer

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
The cytoskeleton‐mediated transport of mitochondria via tunnelling nanotubes restores respiration, increases ATP production, rescues cells from apoptosis, activates the AKT/mTOR signalling pathway, promotes cell migration and invasiveness, contributes to cancer progression and treatment resistance.
Stanislava Martínková, Jan Trnka
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Deliberativa, diretta o partecipativa?

Quaderni di Sociologia, 2014
Representative democracy is currently challenged in all Western political systems. In Italy this challenge in recent years has been launched in a distinctive way by the Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5s, Five Star Movement).
Antonio Floridia, Rinaldo Vignati
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