The European Representative Democracy Data Archive
We believe that a key to progress in terms of a better understanding of democratic politics rests on a research agenda that combines the best of cross-national statistical research with in-depth studies of historical pathways (path dependency), norms and
Ersson, Svante,, Andersson, Staffan,
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'Word from the street' : when non-electoral representative claims meet electoral representation in the United Kingdom [PDF]
Taking the specific case of street protests in the UK – the ‘word from the street’– this article examines recent (re)conceptualizations of political representation, most particularly Saward’s notion of ‘representative claim’.
Judge, David
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CRISIS OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY IN SPAIN
The article examines the crisis of representative democracy in Spain, which is characterized by the growth of the population’s critical attitudes towards politicians and political institutions and the decline of the latter’s influence.
Sergey Khenkin
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Democracy and Social Movements: A Critical Review on the Book Can Democracy Be Saved? Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements [PDF]
This article reviews the book Can Democracy Be Saved? Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements Written by Donatella Della Porta. Della Porta’s main question in this book is, "Can democracy be saved?” And his response is to “going beyond its ...
Behnam Joodi, Mohammad Yeganeh
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The purpose of this study is to determine the function and role of representative bodies in the Indonesian constitutional system by looking at the journey of democracy in Indonesia.
Firman Freaddy Busroh
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Equality as the name of democracy - Bogdana Koljević: Democracy of contemporary French poststructuralism, Serbian State Publisher of Textbooks, Belgrade, 2018 [PDF]
This exceptional book for our public opens dilemmas about the potential of democracy as it is, an opinion which is frequently taken for granted or rejected here, in a rather arbitrary manner.
Bratina Boris R.
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Direct and Representative Democracy. The Debate in Revolutionary France (1789-1795)
This essay explores the debate concerning the idea of democracy in the French Revolution (1789-1795). It shows that this idea is based upon representative democracy as well as direct democracy, maintaining a complex and precarious equilibrium between the
Antonio Senta
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oai:democracyeducationjournal.org:home-1000There is a widespread movement today to prepare all students for college, and it is promoted in the name of democracy.
Noddings, Nel
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Il disagio della rappresentanza. Brevi note sui paradossi della democrazia [PDF]
Starting from a recent text by Franco Maria Di Sciullo, the paper talks about the significance of the historical approach in the debate on the crisis of representative democracy.
Giuseppe Foglio
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A Proposal for Rethinking the Origins and Future of Representative Government
In this paper, the author points to the need for conducting an in-depth study of the claim that representative democracy leads to intense political alienation and that it is in its final stage of decline.
John Keane
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