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Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
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On the excessive role of technocracy (from a Gadamerian perspective) [PDF]
The role of experts grows in the present and that is, in part, justifiable: as complexity rises, the ones who deliberate feel the need of the help of those who have know-how in specific fields.
Fischer Pacheco, Mariana Pimentel
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ABSTRACT “Creative discretion”—defined as street‐level bureaucrats' use of their discretion to generate novel and useful ideas for customizing services to meet the needs of service users, superiors, and themselves—is vital as governments shift from traditional public management to a more user‐centered approach, emphasizing responsiveness over ...
Liesbeth Faas +3 more
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The Conspiracist Theory of Power
In recent years, conspiracy theories have surged in democratic politics, enabling illiberal parties, movements, and politicians to win the votes of constituents who are disillusioned with mainstream democratic politics.
Mert Can Bayar, Scott Radnitz
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New modes of political participation and Singapore's nominated members of parliament [PDF]
Despite growing recognition that authoritarianism can be far more durable than transition theorists previously expected, transition theory assumptions continue to constrain attempts to understand authoritarian regimes.
Rodan, G.
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ABSTRACT Democratic backsliding raises new challenges for bureaucracies as politicians undermine democratic institutions and the rule of law. Although bureaucracies can play a central safeguarding role, little is known about the organizational conditions that foster resistance to undemocratic pressure.
Mariana Costa Silveira +5 more
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State College Times, April 19, 1933 [PDF]
Volume 21, Issue 95https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/12863/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Re‐Imagining Regulatory Governance
ABSTRACT This paper invites the readers to rethink regulatory governance by examining how trust‐based and rule‐based governance interact. To do this, it uses analytical narratives of three fictional polities: “Trustland”, “Regland”, and “Concordia”. Each polity represents a stylized model of governance: Trustland is anchored in trust‐based governance ...
David Levi‐Faur
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Vous avez dit éducation au politique ?
What philosophical meaning should be given to the project of an education in politics within the framework of liberal democracy and the expectations of the school institution?
Michel Fabre
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Still in Deficit: Rights, Regulation, and Democracy in the European Union [PDF]
Critics of the EU's democratic deficit standardly attribute the problem to either sociocultural reasons, principally the lack of a demos and public sphere, or institutional factors, notably the lack of electoral accountability because of the limited ...
Bellamy, RP
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