Democracy, Self-Determination and Political Membership [PDF]
, 2010 My key question is whether the collective right to self-determination justifies a right on the part of liberal democracies to exclude outsiders from entering and settling within their territorial jurisdiction, from accessing citizenship or from ...
Laws, Edward
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Consuming democracy : local agencies and liberal peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis focuses on liberal peace building in the DRC. The thesis takes a critical approach which emphasises local agencies and their engagements with liberal peace building. However, it seeks to bring this critique back to the institutions with which
De Goede, Meike J.
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Designing Balance into the Democratic Project: Contrasting Jeffersonian Democracy against Bentham's Panopticon Centralisation in determining ICT adoption [PDF]
, 2007 Positioned in a critical realist perspective, this paper examines the impact of systematic and institutional distortion to communication and the use of information and communicative technology (ICT) for control over citizen participation within the ...
Kakabadse, Andrew P. +2 more
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Models of Party Democracy : Patterns of Party Regulation in Post-War European Constitutions [PDF]
, 2012 This article investigates the ways in which political parties are codified in modern democratic constitutions, providing a unique cross-sectional and longitudinal overview of the patterns of party constitutionalization in post-war Europe.
van Biezen, Ingrid +4 more
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Islam, Secularism, and Liberal Democracy
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2010 Islam, Secularism, and Liberal Democracy analyzes the theoretical relationship between religion and democracy, specifically Islam’s relationship with liberal democracy.
Tauseef Ahmad Parray
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Political Clientelism, Political Culture and Development in Africa
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2019 Culture, society and development are the three most pertinent factors associated with every human civilization; however, they are distinctive and relative. Thus, development exists distinctively in every society.
Kehinde Jonathan Oyedeji +3 more
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Democracy Versus Democracy: The Populist Challenge to Liberal Democracy
LSE Public Policy Review, 2020 The current populist challenges in western liberal democracies should not be seen as evidence of their decline, but as a constituent part. The history of democracy shows us that such challenges enable democracy’s growth and evolution.
Michael Ignatieff
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Democracy in Islamic and international law: A case study of Saudi Arabia [PDF]
, 2010 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Following the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, Muslim nations have been placed in the spotlight of international debate; the prevailing understanding is that
Al-Harbi, Ibrahim Sulaiman
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Toleration, Political Liberalism, and Peaceful Coexistence in the Muslim World
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2007 How can Muslim societies marked by religious, cultural, and ethnic diversity secure peace and stability? I argue that the principle of toleration provides the most appropriate environment for the peaceful coexistence of these differences, for individuals
Bican Sahin
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ANTİK ÇAĞIN TEHLİKELİ YÖNETİMİNDEN GÜNÜMÜZÜN VAZGEÇİLMEZ REJİMİNE: DEMOKRASİ
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2023 Günümüzde demokrasi denildiğinde, bir yönetim biçimi olmaktan ziyade, insan için en doğru, en iyi ve vazgeçilmez hatta ve hatta kutsal olan bir şey olarak anlaşılabiliyor.
Emrullah Mert Koyuncu +1 more
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