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Private neighbourhoods as club economies and shareholder democracies

Belgeo, 2003
The spread of privately governed and often guarded neighbourhoods in many countries of the world has been interpreted by several authors as a manifestation of a “privatisation of public space”. However, it often remains unclear what exactly is privatised
Georg Glasze
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Local-Sized Democracy [PDF]

, 2002
Political struggle at the local level is out of fashion. In today’s increasingly “globalized” world, appeals to the local can often appear parochial and tradition-bound.
Gismondi, Mike
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The Legal Needs of Local Media Reform Organizations: Report of a National Survey [PDF]

, 2006
This report summarizes a nationwide survey of media reform groups to gauge their needs for pro bono legal assistance. Conclusions are that local media democracy groups need legal help on multiple issues, ranging from municipal broadband to cable ...
Neema Trivedi
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Subaltern imaginaries of localism: constructions of place, space and democracy in community-led housing organisations. [PDF]

, 2013
The localism strategies of the UK government provide a suite of ‘rights’ for community organisations that licence place-based political imaginaries with the intent to construct the community as a proxy for a smaller state.
Bradley, Q
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Democratizing deliberative systems [PDF]

, 2012
'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of democracy on a larger scale. It provides a new way of thinking about democratic
Parkinson, John R.
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Pilkada Dan Masa Depan Penguatan Demokrasi Di Daerah [PDF]

, 2010
It should be admitted that in formal juridical point of view, the realization of practices of democracy at the local level cannot be separated from the implementation of the election of local heads.
Fatkhurohman, F. (Fatkhurohman)
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Deepening Democracy in Buffalo by Honoring Prior Commitments (And a Legacy) [PDF]

, 2020
The waning years of the 2010s and the opening weeks of the 2020s have been rife with headlines, editorials, academic articles, lectures, and book titles lamenting a “crisis of democracy”.
Weaver, Russell
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Local democracy and public accountability in Uganda: The need for organisational learning [PDF]

, 2014
The paper examines the impact of public accountability mechanisms in the Uganda's decentralisation local governments. Some of the common tools used for evaluation of local government performance have been presented and discussed including the baraza ...
Kyohairwe, Stella
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Problem Kelembagaan Transisi Demokrasi Di Daerah

JKAP (Jurnal Kebijakan dan Administrasi Publik), 2015
Some scholars have focused their attention on the process of democratization at the local level They argue that democracy at the local level will encourage the emergence of democracy at the national level Furthermore, neo-institutionalism approach is ...
Kacung Marijan
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Direct democracy and local government efficiency [PDF]

, 2014
This paper studies the role of direct democracy in ensuring efficient and cost- effective provision of goods and services in the public sector. The sample consists of the population of municipalities in the German State of Bavaria, where in the mid ...
Asatryan, Zareh, De Witte, Kristof
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