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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The Difference That Power Makes: Intersectionality and Participatory Democracy
The Palgrave Handbook of Intersectionality in Public Policy, 2017 This essay explores how developing more complex analyses of power and politics sheds light on important themes for both intersectionality and participatory democracy.
P. Collins
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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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Transnational Models of Citizen Participation: The Case of Participatory Budgeting
Journal 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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Action research and participatory democracy in social enterprise
Social Enterprise Journal, 2019 Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the reader to the Nordic tradition of Critical Utopian Action Research (CUAR) and to demonstrate how CUAR might reinvigorate participatory democracy as an intrinsic characteristic of social enterprise ...
Janne Gleerup +2 more
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Seeking Democracy Inside, and Outside, of Education: Re-conceptualizing Perceptions and Experiences Related to Democracy and Education [PDF]
, 2017 This conceptual article underscores the importance of critical engagement in and through education with a view to enhancing education for democracy (EfD).
Thésée, Gina, Carr, Paul R
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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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Educating for a Critical Democracy: Civic Participation Reimagined in the Council of Youth Research [PDF]
, 2013 This article explores civic learning, civic participation, and the development of civic agency within the Council of Youth Research (the Council), a program that engages high school students in youth participatory action research projects that challenge ...
Mirra, Nicole +4 more
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Three Forms of Deliberation in Models of Deliberative Democracy [PDF]
Современная ЕвропаThe 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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Improving Democracy Education. A Book Review of \u3ci\u3eEducation for Democracy: A Renewed Approach to Civic Inquiries for Social Justice\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]
, 2022 In their book Education for Democracy: A Renewed Approach to Civic Inquiries for Social Justice, authors Steven P. Camicia and Ryan Knowles (2021) offer a timely recipe for addressing the lack of civic competence in America, which is facing a great ...
Sims, Lillian +5 more
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