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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Democratic Deficit"”.
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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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The persistent EU democratic deficit : the power and legitimacy of the European Parliament
Various definitions for democracy and democratic deficit make it quasi-impossible for any government to follow any hard and fast rule. But, whichever one is the exact definition the European Union (EU) is expected to follow and enhance some of the democratic principles that all member states …
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COAG, democracy and the Australian Constitution: you can choose two
A ‘democratic deficit’ has been well identified in the operations of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG). This has previously been identified as a primarily political problem. However, perhaps there is more to the story. If COAG is fulfilling a constitutional role as well as a political …
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A Sovereign People? Lessons from Participatory Budgeting Experiences in the UK. A study of egalitarian and elitist democratic narratives animating the practice of citizenship, and their role in determining appropriate responses to the UK democratic deficit.
This study explores the UK ‘democratic deficit’ through the question of citizen democratic appetite, taking the varying degrees of citizen mobilisation in different contexts as a point of departure. The ongoing struggles between (broadly) elitist and egalitarian democratic narratives provide an …
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Where are the active citizens of tomorrow? We need them now...
… the gap between governments and citizens the democratic deficit. This gap, or deficit, has arisen over a long time period as a result of public scandals, perceptions of poor performance and poor economies. Local governments around the world are now attempting to regain community respect and …
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The under-representation of women in Mauritian parliament
… prides itself on being a leader in Africa as a democratic and strong middle-income country that has achieved success in many socio-economic areas. But Mauritius is faced with a paradox: despite its abundance of gender-related legislation, it is lagging behind in gender equality at the national …
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Reaching Constituents in the Digital Age
… communications offer part of the solution to the democratic deficit. Based on interviews with MPs and office staff, as well as a survey of MPs across the federal parties, what emerges is a draft of a potential new model for constituency communication, one thus to actualize the potential already …
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The politics of accountability at the World Bank and IMF: reforming engagements with low-income countries
… both state and non-state actors over perceived ‘democratic deficit’, and yet the frameworks that we use to investigate the politics of accountability in international organisations (IOs) remain underdeveloped. By integrating the insights of rationalist and constructivist approaches to the study …
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A Disunited Kingdom : the Legitimacy of Brexit in Light of the Devolved Structure of the UK
… referendum acts as a catalyst from which the democratic competence of the modern United Kingdom’s asymmetric power-structure can be analysed when faced with abnormal political circumstances. The following thesis attempts such an analysis, executed with the aim of identifying any underlying …
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The ECOWAS parliament as a tool for conflict prevention in West Africa
… suffrage mode of election of EMPs emphasises its democratic deficit. The thesis concludes that, the ECOWAS-P as a new institution provided under the revised treaty of 1993 is increasingly gaining more responsibility as a body for conflict prevention and prospectively the enhancement of its powers …
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The Application of the Democratic Dialogue Model to the Relationship between Domestic Legislatures and International Courts
This thesis argues that the democratic dialogue model, a domestic constitutional model of rights protection, can, and does, provide both an explanatory and a normative framework for the relationship between domestic legislatures and international courts. The thesis hypothesises that, at a …
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A Comedy for the Rich, a Tragedy for the Poor: Political Satire in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games
… of society through the relationship between democratic deficit and the common people in a totalitarian state. Offering Marxist and post-colonialist perspectives of The Hunger Games, the essay brings forward the main arguments concerning the true horrors of totalitarianism by means of …
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Europeanization of Corporate Lobbying in the Enlarged EU: The Missing Link in the Case of Hungary
… and Western firms as a problem in terms of 'democratic' deficit, the solution to this problem would have to look beyond Brussels, because the reasons for the absence may lay in the domestic system.
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Socio-economic disparities in science knowledge, biomedical self-efficacy, and public participation in medical decision-making
… evidence that the Internet can help reduce that democratic deficit in information. Chapter 4 finds evidence that people are generally confident to participate. Those who are more self-efficacious are also more confident to participate in medical decisions. The opposite held true for those who …
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Youth participation and the Scottish Parliament: accessibility and participation for children and young people.
… Westminster approach to policy-making and the democratic deficit believed to have emerged during the 1980s in Scotland. Key to achieving this were four principles around which the Parliaments operations were designed: power-sharing; accountability; accessibility and participation; and equal …
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Cures To Stalled Development: Causes And Solutions To Economic Crisis In Sub-saharan Africa
… of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and the continuous democratic deficit on the sluggish economic performance within four sub-Saharan African countries – Ghana, Kenya, Botswana and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The research questions are: are there any unique political, cultural, and economic …
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Dealing with Conflicting Visions of the Past: The Case of European Memory
… to address the “legitimacy problem” and the “democratic deficit” by promoting European identity. In the EU politics-academia nexus, where most of the related debate takes place, the buzzword “European memory” has become very fashionable in the last decade. The idea has been conceptualised in a …
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International Climate Change Governance: Issues of Democracy, Institutions and the Media
… responses is that the decision making process be democratic, transparent, and inclusive so that the ultimate addressees can ‘own’ the problem and contribute to solutions. A sizable literature focuses on the causes and reasons behind climate change and advocates radical actions to arrest it. Other …
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A democracia na União Europeia em crise : o caso da Grécia (2009-2015)
A União Europeia encontra-se numa encruzilhada provocada por uma crise multifacetada (económica, financeira, política e social), com início em 2007/2008 com a pior crise económica desde a década de 30 na Europa. A crise revelou problemas com diversas origens e consequências, e cujo desfecho se …
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The State of European Defence Policy and the Value(s) of Intervention
European security and defence policy has developed at a significant rate since the late 1990s. As a growing field of analysis, there have been few studies to date that have explored the foreign and domestic implications of the European Union's emerging security and defence policies. This thesis …
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