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Social Security and Democracy [PDF]

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2002
Abstract Using some new international data sets to produce both across-country econometric estimates as well as case studies of South American and southern European countries, we find that Social Security policies vary according to economic and demographic factors but that very different political histories can result in the same ...
Mulligan, Casey B., Gil, Ricard, Sala-i-Martin, Xavier   +2 more
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Learning democracy in social work [PDF]

, 2013
In this contribution, we discuss the role of social work in processes of democracy. A key question in this discussion concerns the meaning of ‘the social’ in social work.
B Jordan, B Jordan, C Mouffe, CW Mills, EA Segal, F Coussée, F Simon, G Biesta, G Marston, I Butler, J Donzelot, J Fook, J Harris, J Pratt, K Raes, L Dominelli, M Winter de, N Parton, P Freire, P Lemmens, P Pasture, P Rosanvallon, P Stepney, R Castel, R Dingwall, R Roose, R Tinnevelt, RS Lawy, TH Marshall, W Lorenz, W Lorenz, W Lorenz   +31 more
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Health Implications of Diverse Visions of Urban Spaces: Bridging the Formal-Informal Divide

Frontiers in Public Health, 2019
In the past 200 years, urban spaces have been imagined as neatly laid out, well-planned, sanitised and civilised places of dense human habitation with regulated economic activity, where political power, financial capital, the frontiers of knowledge and ...
Ritu Priya, Ritu Priya, Ranvir Singh, Ranvir Singh, Sayan Das   +4 more
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The Transformations of Social Democracy

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
The political, organizational, and ideological deadlock that European social democracy has gone through in recent decades is obvious and much discussed. This impasse is indirectly expressed by the weakness of social democratic parties in maintaining their electoral clientele and social base of workers, employees, and pensioners.
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Identity and Democracy: Linking Individual and Social Reasoning [PDF]

, 2009
Following Amartya Sen\u27s approach, John Davis and Solange Regina Marin look at individual and social reasoning when examining the complex relationship between identity and democracy.
Davis, John B., Marin, Solange Regina
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With authority and empathy: the dual voice of kindergarten teachersin homogenizing ethnic and class differences in early childhoodintegration in Hungary [PDF]

Revista de Știinţe Educaţiei
The present article examines institutional discourses on preschool "integration" in Hungary through qualitative interviews with kindergarten teachers in three ethnically mixed communities.
Zsuzsanna ÁRENDÁS, Vera MESSING, Ágnes KENDE   +2 more
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Sociodemografic and psychological characteristics of voters for SNSD and SDP BiH: Two faces of social democracy in Bosnia & Herzegovina [PDF]

Psihologija, 2008
There are two social democratic parties in Bosnia Herzegovina: SNSD and SDP BiH. These two parties differ regarding their origin and their political activity in Bosnia Herzegovina.
Puhalo Srđan
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Synthesis as a strategy [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2002
It is evident that there is a great number of philosophical-political paradigms existing in contemporary political theory and practice. Each of the paradigms (liberal, radical, conservative, socialist) has certain advantages but also certain dangers. The
Cvjetićanin Neven V.
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Deepening democracy within Ireland's social partnership [PDF]

, 2009
Ireland's social partnership process, now under attack from a number of quarters, has repeatedly been charged with being 'undemocratic' in that it undermines the sovereign position of elected political representatives, with key policy formulation and ...
Allen K., Bang H. P., Benhabib S., Berlin I., Bogason P., Castells M., Cornwall A., Dean M., Fung A., Government of Ireland, Habermas J., Hastings T., Held D., Held D., Hirst P., Hulme D., Kirby P., Kooiman J., Lewis D., Macpherson C. B., Mansbridge J., March J. G., MEJN, Mouffe C., Murphy G., Murphy M., NESC, National Economic and Social Council, Newman J., Niamh Gaynor, Pearce J., Pierre J., Reddel T., Rosell S. A., Sørensen E., Tansey S. D., The Irish Times, Triantafillou P., Weber H., Ó Cinnéide S., Ó Cinnéide S.   +39 more
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Action research and democracy [PDF]

, 2013
This contribution explores the relationship between research and learning democracy. Action research is seen as being compatible with the orientation of educational and social work research towards social justice and democracy.
A Feldman, A James, B Boog, B Pease, C Tromp, CW Mills, D Gredig, E Verhellen, E Verhellen, G Biesta, G Dahlberg, GJJ Biesta, H Altrichter, H Blumer, H D’Cruz, H Mensink, J Cammarota, J Habermas, J Masschelein, J Masschelein, JF Glastra van Loon, JF Glastra van Loon, K Grunwald, K Nielsen, K Schuyt, L Trinder, M Angrosino, M Bouverne-De Bie, M Hill, M Wyness, N Denzin, N Parton, N Parton, N Röling, N Wong, P Foster-Fishman, P Freire, P Lemmens, P Reason, P Wicks, R Bogdan, R Roose, R Roose, R Roose, R Roose, R Tinnevelt, RS Lawy, S Kemmis, S Kemmis   +48 more
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