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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Democratic Engagement"”.
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Devolution and Space in England: Empirical Essays on Economic Growth, Democratic Engagement, and Health
… ag- glomerations and spatially concentrated democratic disengagement, the sacrifice of national synergies in policy delivery, and that in practice place-based policies do not give enough attention to ‘space’ within ‘place’. Due to being of great policy significance, an increasing level of …
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Democratically Engaged Community-University Partnerships: Reciprocal Determinants of Democratically Oriented Roles and Processes
Despite calls for concerted, two-way engagement and for the development of reciprocal partnerships between institutions of higher education (IHE's) and their communities, IHE's continue to implement a disparate menu of activities that prove largely ineffective at addressing society's most …
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Towards a holistic integration of energy justice and energy system engineering
… optimization framework, Osier, to enhance the democratic engagement necessary for a just transition. Osier stores information about different energy technologies (e.g., wind, solar, nuclear), including their costs, emissions, and other data. Users provide energy demand data and define one or …
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On the Insufficiency of Procedure: Assessments of Bolivarian Democracy
The scholarly debate on Venezuela's democratic character has become tremendously polarized since the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998. This starkly divided debate has demonstrable impact on the policy realm, as well as the scholarly literature on democratic theory. This debate has run along …
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Strategic decision-making in development theory and practice : a learning approach to democratic development
… shadow of the consensus; a learning process of democratic engagement in development, both within and across localities. When extended to consider the contested theme of ‘globalisation’, our framework provides an analytical meeting ground for seemingly polar views, making a conceptual distinction …
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Higher education institutions, voter registration, voter education, and voter participation: a study of college students in the 2016 presidential and 2018 mid-term congressional elections
… used contributed to increased voter engagement and/or participation rates during the 2016 Presidential Election and/or the 2018 Mid-term Election. Furthermore, their collective impact, crafted together in an intentionally created Campus Action Plan, made a difference across the 81 …
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Exploring perceptions of rural youth participation in political elections: A case study of Thulamela Municipality
… held elections every five years to promote democratic engagement and allow citizens to choose their representatives. Despite this democratic foundation, the political landscape revealed a concerning trend: South African youth increasingly became disinterested in participating in political …
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Care and Political Representation: Exploring the Challenges of Contemporary Representative Democracy with an Account of Democratic Care Ethics
… addresses these links and presents an account of democratic care ethics as a productive approach to consider the challenges in contemporary democracies and the place and potential of political representation in democratic theory and practice. To develop an argument for the value of such an …
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The influence of social media on e-democracy in respect of governance and service delivery within eThekwini metropolitan municipality
… limitations of social media as a tool for civic engagement, public accountability, and enhanced governance. A mixed-methods approach, anchored on the pragmatism philosophy, was adopted, combining quantitative data from 414 social media users and qualitative insights from 20 municipal officials …
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Disentangling Discrimination: The Impact of Political and Societal Discrimination on Democratic (Dis)Engagement
… of racial and ethnic minority groups in democratic societies? Are all types of discrimination the same? The direct relationship between discrimination and behavior is surprisingly understudied. The few studies that have focused on this topic suggest that discrimination motivates …
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‘Save Spain’: British Support for the Spanish Republic within Civil Society in Britain, 1936–1939
… conflict and is illustrative of a degree of both democratic engagement and popular internationalism within 1930s Britain.
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Community and the Habits of Democratic Citizenship: An Investigation into Civic Engagement, Social Capital and Democratic Capacity-Building in U.S. Cohousing Neighborhoods
… capital, citizen civic capacity and deliberative democratic engagement in supporting the development of engaged citizens, as well as supporting a democracy that is effective, publicly-minded and accountable. This study contributes to this literature by empirically investigating the potential for a …
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Participation Through Political Education. A mixed methods study assessing the utility of an inclusive democratic promotion framework for enhancing youth engagement interventions.
… practice - contributes to youth exclusion from democratic life, interreacting with other drivers of decline. Building on a narrative of exclusion, the project emphasises young people as experts in defining the problems and solutions to their future democratic engagement. Participation here, …
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Investigations into children’s participation and agency: working towards change in classroom practices and cultures
… investigated the extent of the children’s democratic engagement and the development of a more democratically participatory space where they can exercise agency both as learners and as participants in democratic communities. This work also contributed in new ways to children’s agency as …
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The social media revolution and political activism. A case study of Zimbabwe
… fostering calls for transparency, and promoting democratic engagement within the electoral process. The study demonstrates that social media played a double-edged role in Zimbabwe’s semi-authoritarian state during the 2023 election campaign. For opposition groups and progressive actors, platforms …
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"Empowered to Change the World for the Better": Gender, Citizenship, and Justice in Three Environmental Education Programs for Girls
… and also taps into environmental educations democratic potential to argue that girls need to be exposed to possibilities of social transformation and justice. To bring gender and girls into environmental education, this dissertation rests on evidence gathered in field observations, …
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Instrumentalization in the Public Smart Bikeshare Sector
… critical urbanism, smart city development, democratic engagement and collaborative infrastructuring. In addition, the conceptual framework, developed in response to the empirical cases, represents an elaboration of Feenberg’s work and so the thesis also makes an important contribution to the …
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Steeped in Rhetoric: Digital Populism and the Tea Party Movement
… on the data that analyzes how the Tea Party's engagement with new media fits into broader conversations about technology and democracy. At the core of this project is an inquiry into how technology works in our everyday lives. My analysis questions the presumption that new media communication …
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AUTOCRATIZATION AND PUBLIC OPINION ONDEMOCRACY: INSIGHTS FROM TURKEY
… of democracy, evaluations of regime democraticness, and support for democracy, using Turkey’s recent shift from a flawed democracy to a competitive authoritarian regime as a case study. The analysis draws on diverse data sources, including the World Values Survey, V-Dem and Freedom …
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Reading for democratic citizenship: A new model for readers’ advisory
… and is grounded in the library’s overarching democratic project. Drawing on insights from reader-response criticism, I argue that leisure reading is valuable in part because it offers us opportunities to deliberate on our aesthetic experiences, creatively testing out our ideas, listening and …
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