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Grassroot NGOs and Political Reform in Thailand: Democracy behind Civil Society
The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 1998 This article argues that behind the concept of civil society is a real opportunity for populist forces to drive democracy forward. In Thailand, the participatory role of non-governmental organisations, particularly at grassroots level, is very ...
Naruemon Thabchumpon
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Citizenship, democracy and social justice: A conversation with Maria Olson [PDF]
, 2013 Maria Olson is a researcher and lecturer in Education at Stockholm University and the University of Skövde, Sweden. Her areas of interest include democracy and citizenship in relation to education.
Peters, Michael A.
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Between empowerment and abuse: citizen participation beyond the post-democratic turn [PDF]
, 2020 In this special issue on “Democratization beyond the Post-Democratic Turn. Political Participation between Empowerment and Abuse”, we have explored changing understandings of participation in contemporary Western representative democracies through the ...
Butzlaff, Felix
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Democratization beyond the post-democratic turn: towards a research agenda on new conceptions of citizen participation [PDF]
, 2020 Following extensive debates about post-democracy and post-politics, scholarly attention has shifted to conceptualizing the ongoing transformation of democracy.
Blühdorn, Ingolfur, Butzlaff, Felix
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Budżet obywatelski województwa małopolskiego
Eastern Review, 2018 A participatory budgeting is a form of direct democracy, which in Poland has been gaining more and more popularity and is used in many local government units.
Barbara Węglarz
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Métropoles, 2016 This article deals with the impact of local political competition on participatory democracy. To what extent does political competition at local level shapes the production of ‘citizen participation’ in participatory arenas?
Virginie Anquetin, Cécile Cuny
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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica, 2019 Direct democracy, the tradition of which dates back to ancient Athens, is now widely practised in many countries around the world. In this paper, a case study of participatory budgeting is given as an illustration of how residents can decide directly ...
Zofia Łapniewska
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Participatory Deliberative Democracy for Peace in El Salvador
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2019 Postconflict societies such as El Salvador, surpassing 25 years of relative peace since signing the 1992 Chapultepec Peace Accords, have employed many mechanisms to rebuild and establish lasting peace.
Marcia Mundt
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Contemporary theories of democracy [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2008 The aim of this paper is two-fold: first, to analyze several contemporary theories of democracy, and secondly, to propose a theoretical framework for further investigations based on analyzed theories.
Mladenović Ivan
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