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Appropriating Democracy: A Comparison Between Argumentative Strategies for Confucian and Islamic Democracy [PDF]
, 2020 Surveying English, Chinese and Arabic texts, I find that advocates for Islamic or Confucian democracy often use three argumentative strategies. First, they tend to interpret democracy as a procedure to select a government instead of as an ideology or ...
Keller, Franziska Barbara
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Populism and Liberal Democracy: Populists in Government in Austria, Italy, Poland and Switzerland [PDF]
, 2013 The enduring electoral success of populist parties across Europe and the increasing opportunities they have gained to access government in recent years bring once more into relief the question of whether populism and democracy are fully compatible.
Daniele Albertazzi +4 more
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Populism on the periphery of democracy: moralism and recognition theory [PDF]
, 2023 Moralism is an often-cited feature of populist politics; yet, as a concept, it remains under-theorised in current literature. This paper posits that to understand the threat that populism poses to democracy, it is necessary to develop this key feature of
McKibben, Charlene
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Crisis and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century [PDF]
, 2022 This chapter considers two aspects of the tensions between governance and democracy during times of crisis. Firstly, it aims to situate the many crises facing representative democracy today by arguing against the idea that democracy is only suited to ...
Steven Slaughter (13095087) +1 more
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HOW DEMOCRACY BACKSLIDES. Tracing the Pathway in Turkey [PDF]
, 2022 Democratic backsliding is a gradual process that negatively affects the countries in terms of democracy. The different levels of democracies can face a number of challenges as a result of democratic backsliding and this is due to various factors.
Alperen Bedirhan, Zekeriya
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Restrained Radicals: Populist Radical Right Parties in Local Government [PDF]
, 2023 The entry of populist radical right parties into positions of power has generated anxious debate regarding the potential consequences for liberal democracy. Their activities in local government, however, have been largely overlooked.
Paxton, Fred
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Democratization, national identity, and Indonesia’s foreign policy [PDF]
, 2021 This chapter explores the existing connections between Indonesia’s process of democratization, its evolving national identity, and its foreign policy.
Emmers, Ralf, Ralf Emmers
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Endogenous political institutions [PDF]
, 2004 A fundamental aspect of institutional design is how much society chooses to delegate unchecked power to its leaders. If, once elected, a leader cannot be restrained, society runs the risk of a tyranny of the majority, if not the tyranny of a dictator. If
Alesina, A. +5 more
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Pluralistic conditioning: social tolerance and effective democracy [PDF]
, 2014 Modern democracy is based in dissent and diversity. The essential defining aspect of democracy is the existence of competitive and fair elections; an element which emphasizes diversity of opinion and serves to place one party (or group of parties) in ...
Singh, SP +3 more
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, 2014 The post-1945 world is well documented for its surge in the study of and struggles over “democracy”. The Eurocentric and then Pacifi c wars were—and continue to be—in part understood as a fight over ideology.
Chou, Mark, Gagnon, Jean Paul; id_orcid
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