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Local Democracy Shaping e-Democracy
2003This paper offers a fresh perspective to study the role and implications of information and communications technologies (ICT) in processes of local democracy. It moves away from earlier perspectives that have given privilege to information flows, information technology features or strategies employed by human actors in their accounts.
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2014
Combining theory and international practice, this book examines how local government can develop active citizens and make a difference to the well-being of those in disadvantaged areas.
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Combining theory and international practice, this book examines how local government can develop active citizens and make a difference to the well-being of those in disadvantaged areas.
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Local democracy as local autonomy
Theoretical Inquiries in LawAbstract The dominant conceptualization of democracy is nation-centric: it prioritizes national elections over other forms of public participation in decision-making, emphasizes a strong system of institutional checks and balances and separation of powers as key indicators of a healthy democracy, and embeds national democratic ...
Yishai Blank +2 more
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2000
This book offers a vivid and persuasive critical examination of New Labour's programme for the modernisation of local government, providing a balanced view of the democracy and participation debate. It draws on a wide range of new survey data to relate the crisis of local politics and governance to wider changes in the political culture.
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This book offers a vivid and persuasive critical examination of New Labour's programme for the modernisation of local government, providing a balanced view of the democracy and participation debate. It draws on a wide range of new survey data to relate the crisis of local politics and governance to wider changes in the political culture.
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National Municipal Review, 1947
AbstractLeague's President warns that people must guard against use of new power as excuse for greater centralization.
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AbstractLeague's President warns that people must guard against use of new power as excuse for greater centralization.
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Forging Democracy and Locality
2002The chant from a 1990 human rights demonstration I participated in highlighted a litany of places in Chile where the remains of the victims of the military dictatorship had been recovered: Mulchen, Lonquen, Laja, Pisagua, and Colina. We marched through the streets of the capital, Santiago, proclaiming, “It wasn’t a war, it was a massacre, all were ...
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2012
This chapter considers the managerial character of local democracy. It asks: Does managerial democracy inhibit or enhance the capacity of most Americans for meaningful self-governance? Who governs in a managerial democracy? In most places, local democracy is less about coalitions of property speculators and machine politicians establishing local ...
J. Eric Oliver +2 more
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This chapter considers the managerial character of local democracy. It asks: Does managerial democracy inhibit or enhance the capacity of most Americans for meaningful self-governance? Who governs in a managerial democracy? In most places, local democracy is less about coalitions of property speculators and machine politicians establishing local ...
J. Eric Oliver +2 more
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2020
Présentation de la démocratie locale en France et points de comparaison avec la démocratie locale au ...
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Présentation de la démocratie locale en France et points de comparaison avec la démocratie locale au ...
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The Political Quarterly, 2004
ABSTRACTNew Labour's prescriptions for revitalising local democracy drew heavily upon academic analyses that emphasised the loss of power and legitimacy of local government, the need to reconnect local institutions of governance to the populace and to ensure that the dispersed powers of the successor institutions were coordinated locally through new ...
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ABSTRACTNew Labour's prescriptions for revitalising local democracy drew heavily upon academic analyses that emphasised the loss of power and legitimacy of local government, the need to reconnect local institutions of governance to the populace and to ensure that the dispersed powers of the successor institutions were coordinated locally through new ...
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