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The Role of Public Administrators in Building a Robust Liberal Democracy
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT After decades of expansion, liberal democracy is threatened by autocratic populists. These actors exploit widening gaps between leaders and citizens, as well as growing political polarization in the population, to consolidate executive power by undermining courts, sidelining elected assemblies, discrediting public administrators, and ...
Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing
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Seriality and style: The embodiment, perception, and normalization of collectives
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Within existential phenomenology, both seriality and style have been drawn on to theorize the embodiment and perceptibility of (social) ontological differences. While style refers to how we encounter the world and others not in the abstract, but as immediately and intuitively meaningful, seriality is a form of collective being that pertains to
Tris Hedges
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Pacifist rejoinders to the ‘Hitler question’
European Journal of International SecurityThis article tackles head-on a question that is often thought to defeat pacifism: ‘How then would you react against a Nazi invasion?’ That multiple wars are still recurrently justified as necessary to confront yet another ‘Hitler’ makes tackling this ...
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
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The Media Agenda‐Setting Role of Protests in Nondemocratic Regimes: A Case Study From Hungary
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how protests influence media coverage in a nondemocratic context, focusing on the 2022–2023 education‐related protest wave in Hungary. Drawing on data from the Hungarian Protest Event Database (HuPED) and a corpus of 24,029 education‐related articles across 47 online news portals, we examine how different types of media—
Pal Susanszky, Sebastian Haunss
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Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper introduces transboundary spanning as a novel concept for social movement analysis. Using Extinction Rebellion (XR) in the United States as a case study, we examine the relational dynamics of social movement boundary spanning: processes wherein actors and organizations engage across symbolic boundaries.
Tobias Müller, Peter Gardner
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Colour revolutions, nonviolence and social movements: Otpor in Serbia
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2014 This article links a theoretical approach focused on the political theory of nonviolent action with an empirical analysis of the events that have occurred during the colour revolutions.
Angélica Rodríguez Rodríguez +1 more
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Violent and Nonviolent Ethnic Resistance
Nationalities Papers, 2022 Why do ethnic minorities who have been cut out of power choose, in some contexts, to take up arms and, in other contexts, to take to the streets? This question might seem an obvious one to ask, and yet it has rarely been posed in quite these terms – in large part because ethnic politics research has concentrated far more on violent resistance than its ...
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Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article expands the sociological scholarship on the development of academic programs in intellectual fields tied to social movements. After briefly reviewing this literature, which has especially focused on fields like ethnic studies and women's studies, it examines the development of the smaller field of peace and conflict studies.
Elise Wolff
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A CHRISTIAN NATURALISM: DEVELOPING THE THINKING OF GORDON KAUFMAN
Zygon, 2013 This essay develops a theological naturalism using Gordon Kaufman's nonpersonal idea of God as serendipitous creativity in contrast to the personal metaphorical theology of Sallie McFague.
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