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The Organizational Dynamics of Bureaucratic Resistance to Undemocratic Pressures: A Conjoint Experiment in Brazil

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Democratic backsliding raises new challenges for bureaucracies as politicians undermine democratic institutions and the rule of law. Although bureaucracies can play a central safeguarding role, little is known about the organizational conditions that foster resistance to undemocratic pressure.
Mariana Costa Silveira   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Democratic regression and the rise of electoral illiberalism in Indonesia: A multi-dimensional analysis (1998-2024)

open access: yesJurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan
Since the political transition of 1998, Indonesia has been widely regarded as a leading case of democratic consolidation in Southeast Asia. However, recent empirical indicators reveal a persistent decline in civil liberties, political pluralism, and ...
Paryanto Paryanto   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trust in Regulation in a Time of Revolution

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines trust in regulation as a core value and precondition of the modern liberal democratic regulatory state. It develops a concept of justified trust in regulation, grounded in regulatory trustworthiness—honesty, competence, and reliability—rather than in proxies such as partisan loyalty, blind faith, obedience, or resignation.
Cristie Ford
wiley   +1 more source

A Pluralist Theory of Constitutional Justice. Assessing Liberal Democracy in Times of Rising Populism and Illiberalism

open access: yesAthena
A Pluralist Theory of Constitutional Justice. Assessing Liberal Democracy in Times of Rising Populism and Illiberalism advances a theoretically rich and extremely engaging case for the suitability of liberal constitutionalism to achieve justice in ...
Sara Canduzzi
doaj   +1 more source

A Thin Blue Democratic Line? Organization, Interest, and Ethical Compatibility as Foundations of External Accountability Credibility

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the context of rising authoritarian and populist political movements, scholars have increasingly identified external agency as a bulwark for liberal values. However, its capacity to protect such values may be contingent upon its acceptance within the profession—specifically, upon attitudes we conceptualize as “accountability credibility ...
Sebastian Roché   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Free Expression and Coerced Choice: The Role of the Army and Lord Protector in Miltonic Freedom

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarly approaches to understanding freedom in Milton's prose tend to connect Milton's ideas to either liberalism or republicanism. Neither of these approaches is sufficient because freedom, for Milton, was not a single concept. Milton explored political and religious freedom very differently.
Benjamin Woodford
wiley   +1 more source

Political Representation and the Human Rights Model of Disability: A Bulgarian Case

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research
Bulgaria ratified the UNCRPD in 2012 but what can be observed locally is a chronic failure to embrace and implement its fundamental principles. This article explores the current state and the future of the human rights model of disability in Bulgaria. It
Ina Dimitrova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Ideology of History and the Limits of Cinematic Realism in Andrei Zviagintsev’s Leviathan and Nataliia Meshchaninova’s The Hope Factory

open access: yesThe Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article brings together theories of history and filmic realism to analyze the representation of the provinces in Nataliia Meshchaninova’s The Hope Factory (Kombinat “Nadezhda,” 2014) and Andrei Zviagintsev’s Leviathan (Leviafan, 2014). It argues that these two films share a typically realist attitude of respect toward the profilmic in ...
Daria Ezerova
wiley   +1 more source

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