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How Participatory Budgeting Changes the Meaning and Practices of Citizenship

open access: yesEthic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2013
What does it mean to be a citizen today? In an era where boundaries are being questioned, where identities are being transformed, where social and political claims are being updated from the traditional ‘recognition’ or ‘redistribution’ discourse to a ...
Marta Rios Alves Nunes da Costa
doaj   +1 more source

How European Protest Transforms Institutions of the Public Sphere - Discourse and Decision-Making in the European Social Forum Process [PDF]

open access: yes
Against the background of the alleged democratic deficit of EU institutions, this case study explores how politicization and emerging transnational public spaces in European protest movements innovate existing practices of discursive or grassroots ...
Nicole Doerr
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Assembly of Cell‐Seeded 3D Printed Hydrogel Modules with Perfusable Channel Networks

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Macroscale assembly was utilized to prepare perfusable tissue constructs from individually 3D printed hydrogel modules with embedded branched channel networks and port arrays for cell seeding. Novel multi‐material bioreactors were fabricated to facilitate the gluing of individual modules and the perfusion culture of assembled modular constructs seeded ...
Zachary J. Geffert   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The challenges of Crowdsourcing as one of the ways to realize participatory democracy in Iran's administrative law system [PDF]

open access: yesدانشنامه حقوق اقتصادی
Participatory democracy is a new type of democracy that emphasizes the public participation of citizens in all public areas of society administration and considers elections as a means to choose rulers as one of the forms of participation.
Mohmmad Javad Hosseini, Mojtaba Hemmati
doaj   +1 more source

Fluorescent Nanosensor for Indole‐3‐Propionic Acid Detection in Gut Health Monitoring

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This work introduces a fluorescent nanosensor system with two optical modalities for detection of indole‐3‐propionic acid (IPA) gut metabolite: (1) blue‐emitting cationic conjugated polyelectrolyte (CP3) and (2) near‐infrared (NIR)‐emitting CP3‐wrapped single‐walled carbon nanotube (SWNT).
Mervin Chun‐Yi Ang   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hybrid deliberative democracy in practice: a case study of community engagement and public decision-making in Malang City, Indonesia

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
This study investigates the implementation of deliberative democracy at the local level in Indonesia, focusing on how community participation shapes democratic development in a developing-country context.
Asep Nurjaman, Julio Tomas Pinto
doaj   +1 more source

Participatory democracy and participatory research

open access: yesEuropean Political Science Review
AbstractWhile normative theories of participatory democracy and practical experiences of participatory research share a common democratic commitment, the two fields have emerged and to date exist in isolation from each other. This article bridges this divide and asks what participatory democracy and participatory research can learn from one another. It
Hans Asenbaum   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

From skepticism to mutual support: towards a structural change in the relations between participatory budgeting and the information and communication technologies? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Until three years ago, ICT Technologies represented a main “subordinate clause” within the “grammar” of Participatory Budgeting (PB), the tool made famous by the experience of Porto Alegre and today expanded to more than 1400 cities across the planet. In

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Mapping the Cerebral Organoid Landscape: A Systematic Review of Preclinical 3D Models in Neuroscience

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Cerebral organoids are transforming brain research, yet the field remains fragmented. This comprehensive systematic review maps 738 studies published between 2014 and 2024 to uncover trends, gaps, and opportunities across neuroscience. Introducing OrganoidMap—an interactive, open‐access platform to explore and compare models—this work enables ...
Anna Wolfram   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blurring the Boundaries Citizen Action Across States and Societies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Taking a "citizen's perspective", looking upwards and outwards, these studies offer a unique insight into how citizens see and experience states and other institutions which affect their lives, as well as how they engage, mobilise and participate to make
Nicholas Benequista
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