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Anything but Representative Democracy: Explaining Conspiracy Believers’ Support for Direct Democracy and Technocracy

Politics and Governance
Conspiracy theories gained considerable attention during the Covid-19 pandemic. Although studies have extensively explored their (mostly) negative impacts on various political and social aspects, like participation, health-related behavior, and violence,
Anne Küppers
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Telescopes on the Moon or pie in the sky? [PDF]

The question is examined of whether it makes sense to believe that there will one day be an interferometric array of telescopes on the Moon. The question is really one of national commitment to a lunar base, since it is not likely that a scientific ...
Pilcher, Carl B.
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Democracy and technological politic in the risk society [PDF]

, 2012
New technologies generate risks, for the evaluation of which various mechanisms have been developed; the most frequent of these mechanisms consists of advice from committees of experts to the bodies whose role is to decide whether a new technology should
Sanz Burgos, Raúl
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Putting the Car Before the Horse: The Diffusion of the Automobile and the Rise of Technocratic Primacy

Histories
A key question in the literature of technology in society is the degree to which technology is a product of society and vice versa. A related question is how the differing cross-causal lines between the two change both technological and social forms ...
Cameron Elliott Gordon
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Populism and Technocracy: Pillars of Postwar Representative Democracy in Europe

Perspective Politice
The established representative democracy in Europe is facing growing challenges. In a rapidly evolving landscape that resolves some crises while encountering new ones, two movements – populism and technocracy – are emerging as alternatives to the ...
Rareș-Bogdan ROȘULESCU
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Technocrats and humanist intellectuals in the Third World : cases from a school of development studies in Europe [PDF]

identity;students;case studies;developing countries;development education;intellectuals ...
George, S.
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New Economic Analysis of Law: Beyond Technocracy and Market Design [PDF]

, 2018
This special issue on New Economic Analysis of Law features illuminating syntheses of social science and law. What would law and economics look like if macroeconomics were a concern of scholars now focused entirely on microeconomics?
Pasquale, Frank A.
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Law Disrupted, Law Re-Imagined, Law Re-Invented

Technology and Regulation, 2019
This article describes the technological disruption of law and legal reasoning, suggests how law might be re-imagined, and then proposes four key elements in the re-invention of law. Two waves of disruption are identified.
Roger Brownsword
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Organizational Culture and Reform: The Case of the European Commission under Jacques Santer [PDF]

Europeanization; European Commission; institutionalisation; institutions; administrative ...
Michelle Cini
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Entre la mitificación y la crítica: el cine y los medios audiovisuales en la escuela primaria en España en el tardofranquismo y la transición, 1958-1982

Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine, 2013
In this study we attempt to provide a preliminary evaluation of the role played by cinema and television in Spanish school culture in the 1960s and 1970s. While earlier research has pointed out their importance in this period, there is no study dedicated
Gabriela Ossenbach, Tamar Groves
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