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Political settlements: the history of an idea in policy and theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper explores how the concept of ‘political settlement’ in statebuilding arose, identifies its essential elements, the level of consensus around them, and tests out some of its normative content.
Sue Ingram
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Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political Elite Theory and Political Elite Recruitment in Nigeria

open access: yes, 2017
This paper is on political elite theory, its application and relevance to political elite recruitment in Nigeria. It gives an analysis of the elite theory and further enunciates its principles, tenets, ideas, assumptions, application, strengths and ...
Ekundayo, Woleola J.
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

A FORMAÇÃO DA ELITE POLÍTICA E A IMPORTÂNCIA DOSBACHARÉIS NO PENSAMENTO CONSTITUCIONAL BRASILEIRO - DOI: 10.12818/P.0304-2340.2015v66p395

open access: yesRevista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2015
  RESUMO   O trabalho objetiva analisar a formação da elite política brasileira e a importância dos bacharéis no pensamento constitucional brasileiro. Para tanto, é examinado o que Eul-Soo Pang e Ron L.
Jovina d'Avila Bordoni, Luciano Tonet
doaj   +4 more sources

A «refundação» do Corpo do Estado-Maior do Exército português no século xx

open access: yesLer História, 2013
This article is essentially about the refoundation of the Portuguese Army Staff Corps, ‘body’ of elite of the Portuguese Army, which existed since the 19th century and was refounded in 1937, during the period of political and ideological consolidation of
João Campos Neves
doaj   +1 more source

Elite Capture Through Information Distortion: A Theoretical Essay [PDF]

open access: yes
Common wisdom as well as sound analytical arguments suggest that stronger punishment of deviant behavior meted out by a principal typically prompts the agents to better conform with his objectives.
Vincent Somville   +2 more
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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