Cultural Rights and Internal Minorities: Of Pueblos and Protestants [PDF]
This article considers the question: should rights extended to cultural communities to help them preserve themselves include the right to discipline dissident members who violate cultural norms?
Robinson, Andrew M
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A magnificent gift: Jan Patocka and Vaclav Havel on dissident sacrifice [PDF]
The paper compares and contrasts Jan Patočka and Vaclav Havel's respective thoughts on dissent. Using Aristotle's thoughts on the magnanimous man as a sounding board, the paper argues with Patočka that dissent is best undertaken as a gift to a community ...
Brennan, Daniel
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Hopes against Hobbes: On Authoritarianism, Regime Legitimation and Soft Power with a Review of Richard C. Bush’s Hong Kong in the Shadow of China: Living with the Leviathan (2016) [PDF]
Richard C. Bush’s Hong Kong in the shadow of China: Living with the Leviathan (2016) represents an important study on post-“Handover” Hong Kong focusing on the making of the 2014 Occupy Campaign and Umbrella Movement and the impact on the coming ...
Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh
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Roaring Youth Subculture as Street Gang in A Clockwork Orange
Youth subcultures mostly arise within mainstream cultures that determine the norms of the way of living in communities. The antagonistic way of thinking and manners of youth subcultures emerge together with unique dialects, dressing styles and ...
F. Berna Uysal
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Live Not by Lies: A Man ual for Christian Dissidents. Rod Dreher
Live Not by Lies: A Man ual for Christian Dissidents. Rod Dreher.
Василий Мацюк
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CCPS 4(2), July/August 2018, Focus – Dissent, Political Freedom, Civil Liberties and the Struggle for Democracy: Essays in Honour of Liu Xiaobo [PDF]
Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, July/August 2018, Focus – Dissent, Political Freedom, Civil Liberties and the Struggle for Democracy: Essays in Honour of Liu Xiaobo, full ...
Joseph Yu-shek Cheng (ed.) +1 more
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Femingas, a Feminist (De)construction Tool
This research paper presents an experiential map drawn from my experience as an architect, aiming to understand the barriers, challenges, tools, and alternatives encountered in the practice of construction and spatial modification alongside women and ...
Florencia Sobrero
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Liu Xiaobo and “Charter 08”: Freedom of Expression and Cultural Relativism [PDF]
Late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo represents the fate of a typical case of a dissident in contemporary China under the Communist regime. The Communist China regime always defends against any criticism of its human rights records, in particular ...
Patrick Kar-wai Poon
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Bonding, Structure and the Stability of Political Parties: Party Government in the House [PDF]
The public policy benefits that parties-deliver are allocated by democratic procedures that devolve ultimately to majority rule. Majority-rule decision making, however, does not lead to consistent policy choices; it is unstable. In this paper, we argue
Cox, Gary W., McCubbins, Mathew D.
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Uprise of Periodical Samizdat: Phenomenon of Soviet Dissidentism and Lithuaninian Catholic Movement
Comparative analysis of the periodical Samizdat as a dissident movement is based on a strict definition of the dissident movement. This definition reflects the dissident movement notions presented in the works of P. Reddaway, V. Shlapentokh, D. Spechler,
Egidijus Jaseliūnas
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