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Showing 1 to 20 of 2989 for “"Democratic"”.
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The democratic prospects of literacy
… analyses that demonstrate how liberal democratic ideals of individual autonomy and universal impartiality have shaped dominant conceptions of literacy. I further demonstrate the inadequacy of liberalism for addressing the relations of group oppression that define the color line in the …
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The Limitations of Democratic Peace
<p>The theory of Democratic Peace suggests that democracies are unlikely to wage war on one another, yet it spends little time actually defining what democracies are. Research on the theory of Democratic Peace suggests that the theory only applies to mature democracies, but how is maturity …
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Expertise, Democratic Values, and Tolerance
… legal and normative `rules' of democracy (i.e. "democratic norms"), which guarantee free speech, or they may consider democratic norms to be more important than non-experts do, or some other related mechanism may drive the effect. While many explanations for this link between expertise and …
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Democratic Speech in Divided Times
Democratic theorists have influentially argued that inclusive deliberation, where citizens voice their concerns and exchange justifications, is crucial to democracy. However, this deliberative ideal has come under sustained attack for being excessively utopian. As a result, to make this ideal more …
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Dewey, Disability, and Democratic Education
… around the topics of Dewey, Disability, and Democratic Education. Each manuscript is formatted for publication and the dissertation itself is prefaced by information that explains my background and how it connects to my current research. As such, the work contained in this dissertation is a …
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Luck Egalitarianism and Democratic Equality
… egalitarianism in favor of a view she calls "democratic equality." The aim of democratic equality is to create a community in which citizens relate to one another as equals. This requires, among other things, that we provide citizens with the necessary capabilities and functionings needed in …
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The contribution of the People’s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) to democratic change in Swaziland, 1983-2013
… Swaziland. It is a study of a leading driver for democratic change in Africa’s ‘only absolute monarchy’. The leading driver is a modern political formation known as the People’s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) and the study demonstrates a variety of ways in which the Swazi monarchy responded …
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"'Under the banner of the democratic principle': John Louis O'Sullivan, the democracy and the ""Democratic Review"""
… he conducted the United States Magazine and Democratic Review and the New York Morning News. Originator of the term ""manifest destiny,"" O'Sullivan was a leading exponent of ""romantic democracy,"" a world view that perceived the hand of Providence in the workings and will of the majority. …
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Receiving Rhetoric: Language and Democratic Politics
… of the political significance of rhetoric in democratic contexts. I explore both the uttering of language (the domain of rhetoric) and the interpretation of language (the domain of hermeneutics), to examine the discursive power of rhetoric and the role that rhetoric might play in facilitating …
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Temporal Context, Inequality and Democratic Survival
What economic factors prevent democratic breakdowns? Since the beginning of the 20th century, more than a hundred countries in the world have transformed their political regime types into democracies. However, not every transition to democracy continued without interruption. Even though some …
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The Democratic Deficit in American Policing
… residents have at their disposal to facilitate democratic accountability for carceral state actors more broadly, and municipal police, more narrowly. First, I evaluate an increasingly common institutional reform in municipal governance – civilian oversight boards. This research demonstrates that …
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Government Publicity and Democratic Press Theory
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T17:26:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6206103.pdf: 13330253 bytes, checksum: fd8dce657b90ff1168fa65546be445ca (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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The Democratic Peace Theory and Biopolitics
… and Iraq after the 9/11 terror attacks, democratic peace theorists have been pushed further to the sidelines as their theory has been put to the test and struggled to stand up to the challenges of political realities in contemporary world politics. The idea that the diffusion of democracy …
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Democratic Justice for Brazilians with Impairments
… of the inquiry, focusing on debate among democratic theorists on the meaning of citizenship and social theorists on the significance and goals of social justice, as well as the key debates among disability theorists on the purport of disability, oppression, emancipation and social …
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The Texas Democratic Primary election of 1910
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Assessing democratic quality and performance in legislatures
… of assessing legislative performance and democratic quality using performance management frameworks and methods used for organisational development and change and whether measurement of this kind is beneficial to improving democratic quality and the legitimation of the political system in …
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