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Democracy and Education: Testing Rival Perspectives (A Comparative Study of Cross-national Data from 1970 to 2018) [PDF]
جامعه شناسی کاربردی, 2021 Introduction:The study of the relationship between the educational system and the political system has been one of the main concerns of sociologists in different eras (Bobba & Coviello, 2007). An important part of these studies has directly or indirectly
Hossein Ahmadi, Reza Hemmati
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Must Realists Be Pessimists About Democracy? Responding to Epistemic and Oligarchic Challenges [PDF]
, 2021 In this paper we show how a realistic normative democratic theory can work within the constraints set by the most pessimistic empirical results about voting behaviour and elite capture of the policy process.
Arlen, Gordon, Rossi, Enzo
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Academicus International Scientific Journal, 2022 The political salience of policy issue arenas related to the movement of people, including immigration, citizenship, and asylum, has increased in recent decades and is likely to continue to escalate for the foreseeable future, because of both real ...
Douglas Moggach
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Terrorism and identity problem [PDF]
Sociologija, 2002 Terrorism is phenomenon of modern society, which became expressive especially in second half of twentieth century. There is a real danger that it could increase in growing number of terrorist groups, their aims, arms and ways of work, and that it could ...
Šijaković Ivan
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Improving candidate-based voting advice application design
Informaatiotutkimus, 2021 Voting advice applications (VAAs) seek to strengthen democracy by assisting voters in voting-related decision-making. VAAs have become popular tools across many European democracies and their usage has been linked to real life electoral consequences.
Veikko Isotalo
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Origins and Effects of Populism
Sociologica, 2019 A comment on Philippe Schmitter's Essay "The Vices and Virtues of ‘Populisms’" (Sociologica, 13(1), 2019)
Zsolt Enyedi
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The future of ‘Real-Existing’ Democracy [PDF]
Society and Economy, 2011 Philippe C. Schmitter’s concept of ‘Real-Existing’ Democracy can serve as a useful analytical tool for political scientists. The future of such democracies however holds many uncertainties. Society and Economy has asked some leading Hungarian scholars to comment on the idea, based on a lecture delivered by Professor Schmitter at the Institute of ...
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The Cold Peace: Russo-Western Relations as a Mimetic Cold War [PDF]
, 2013 In 1989–1991 the geo-ideological contestation between two blocs was swept away, together with the ideology of civil war and its concomitant Cold War played out on the larger stage.
Asmus Ronald +47 more
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On Populism. A Comment on Philippe Schmitter's Essay
Sociologica, 2019 A comment on Philippe Schmitter's essay "The Vices and Virtues of ‘Populisms’" (Sociologica, 13(1), 2019).
Stephen Holmes
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The Vices and Virtues of “Populisms”
Sociologica, 2019 In this short essay, I will try to define contemporary populism in a “neutral” fashion; and to explore its virtues, as well as its (much better known) vices. To conclude, I shall attempt to draw up a balance sheet between its contrasting contributions to
Philippe C. Schmitter
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