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Participatory Deliberative Democracy for Peace in El Salvador

open access: yesJournal 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]

open access: yesFilozofija 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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Transnational Models of Citizen Participation: The Case of Participatory Budgeting

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2012
This article pursues two main objectives. First, it provides a transnational overview and analysis of participatory budgeting, which has been central to the literature on democratic innovations in citizen participation.
Anja Röcke   +3 more
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Participatory design towards digital democracy

open access: yes, 2022
The potential contributions of participatory design towards current problems of digital democracy platforms are investigated in this research. Literature review, thematic analysis, and inter-rater reliability test were used to determine the major issues ...
Silva, Santiago Augusto, Baek, Joon Sang
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Three Forms of Deliberation in Models of Deliberative Democracy [PDF]

open access: yesСовременная Европа
The article examines the theoretical models of deliberative democracy in their opposition to the theoretical models of democratic elitism and participatory democracy. Having briefly described the features of the normative theory of deliberative democracy,
N.A. Shaveko
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Structural insights and therapeutic targets in Acinetobacter baumannii capsule biosynthesis

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Hypervirulent KL49 A. baumannii's capsular polysaccharide contains the nonulosonic acid 8‐epi‐Leg5,7Ac2, synthesized by epimerization via ElaA, ElaB, and ElaC. Crystal structures of ElaA, ElaB, and ElaC reveal their role in CMP‐Leg5,7Ac2 synthesis and regioselective C8 epimerization.
Woo Cheol Lee   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Los modelos de democracia participativa en el constitucionalismo andino: los casos de Venezuela y Bolivia

open access: yesRevista Vasca de Administración Pública, 2017
The Constitutions approved during the last two decades in the Andean zone of Latin America have created a constitutional form of their own, with elements different from traditional constitutionalism.
Albert Noguera Fernández
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Participatory Democracy in Reforming the Way of Political Organization of Contemporary Society - European Models

open access: yesІсторико-політичні проблеми сучасного світу, 2018
This article analyzes the phenomenon of participatory democracy and the impact of community norms on the process of democratization in the context of reforming the way of political organization of contemporary society.
Валентина Урсу
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Adaptor protein CIN85 potentiates the motility of osteosarcoma cells via the Akt/mTOR and MMP2‐COL3A1 axis

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
CIN85 is highly expressed in osteosarcoma, particularly in metastatic lesions. Its overexpression increases cell migration and Matrigel invasion, while silencing CIN85 suppresses these behaviors. Transcriptome analysis shows that CIN85 regulates MMP2, COL3A1, and Akt/mTOR signaling. Targeting these pathways reverses CIN85‐induced motility, highlighting
Iryna Horak   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reforming the Relationship between the State and Civil Society in Latin America

open access: yesLatin American Research Review, 2018
This essay reviews the following works: Enhancing Democracy: Public Policies and Citizen Participation in Chile. By Gonzalo Delamaza. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. Pp. vi + 296. $99.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781782385462. The Politics of Local Participatory
Maureen Donaghy
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