Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 2167 for “"Democracy."”.
-
Enactive Democracy
… of proxy claims. What I call `enactive democracy' takes practices and forms of life themselves as objects of reciprocity and attends not to speech but to the reasoning that inheres in embodied practices when norms of conduct are establish, contested and modified non-discursively. From …
-
Appreciative Democracy
This is a qualitative exploratory, descriptive study to ascertain the feasibility of public administrators at the local government level using an Appreciative Inquiry approach to increase direct citizen participation. It is framed by the interpretive paradigm. Twenty city managers or their …
-
Democracy after deliberation: Bridging the constitutional economicsdeliberative democracy divide
… side is an aggregative and economic theory of democracy, known as constitutional economics, and on the other side is deliberative democracy. The two sides endorse starkly different positions on the issue of what makes a democracy legitimate and stable within an institutional setting. …
-
Education and Democracy; Can Education Foster Greater Democracy for Africa?
… the relationship between education and democracy. It argues that in order for education to have a meaningful impact on prospects for a sustainable democracy, educational systems must support democratic principles and ideals. The main focus of this study is Africa. In order to assess this …
-
Terrorism and Democracy
Terrorism as a phenomenon may well be as old as organized conflict, but in the last half-century it has intensified to the point where some consider it the method of choice for attacking democratic societies and ideals. Democracies are both uniquely vulnerable and uniquely resilient to terrorist …
-
Theorizing Racial Democracy
… fill this gap by exploring the idea of "racial democracy" in Brazil, which is a form of racial ignorance that is prevalent in that country. Specifically, I am interested in the epistemic aspects of this mechanism of creating and propagating racial ignorance.</p> <p>To achieve this goal, I begin …
-
Political violence, fear, and democracy: how violence shapes democracy in Mozambique
… political behavior, and attitudes about democracy? Since the end of the Cold War, intrastate violence has increased across developing democracies. This growing violence has occurred in parallel with the proliferation of elections. Although today, in almost every country globally, citizens …
-
Expert Interventions for Democracy: The Historical and Epistemological Foundations of International Democracy
… approach by combining an intellectual history of democracy research and qualitative interview research with professionals working in the field. By examining the everyday practice of expertise, this dissertation contributes to emerging scholarly debates spanning the intersections of the sociology …
-
#Democracy: The Internet And Support For Democracy In Central And Eastern Europe
… have noted the importance of citizen support for democracy in providing a base for regime stability in these new democracies, there is considerable debate in what influences these values. One possible mechanism of attitude change is mass media. Previous studies in political science have noted the …
-
Postmaterialism and Democracy: What Does the Postmaterialist Value Shift Mean for Democracy?
… a postmaterialist value shift on the future of democracy in advanced industrial democratic countries. Research over the past few decades has questioned the responsiveness of representative democratic institutions in advanced industrial democracies to individual and communal needs in society. …
-
Democracy, Crises, and Misconceptions
We consider misconceptions about the functioning of the economy as one possible explanation for the emergence of crises in democracies. Furthermore, we study a political process which may lead to successful reform. First of all, we show that voters can make inefficient decisions concerning policy …
-
Democracy and city life
The deliberative turn in recent political theory ties legitimacy to public deliberation about reasons, offered for and against exercises of authority by informed and sincere citizens, who share a commitment to finding mutually acceptable terms of social cooperation. But even such reasonable …
-
In the name of democracy: Composition, variation, and measurement of conceptions of democracy
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
-
Renegotiating Democracy in Public Space
Dissent is intricately linked to the qualities of public space. While the First Amendment protects dissent, historical legal and social mechanisms have regulated protest and its relationship with public space. In the latter half of the twentieth century, a rigorous legal framework has emerged to …
-
Engaging young people in democracy
As young people's civic and political participation continues to decline, a number of organizations are working to reverse the decline by increasing opportunities for youth to participate. Communities around the country are taking steps to engage young people through a variety of methods that allow …
-
The religious implications of democracy
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Sociology, 1920. ; Includes bibliographical references.
-
DiSH: Democracy in State Houses
… for a given bill using a custom model called Democracy2Vec. Third, we provided a case study focused on the 2015-2016 California State Legislator and had our results verified by a political expert. Our results show that our embeddings can explain relationships between legislator and how they …
Page 1 of 109