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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Democratic deficits"”.
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Mini-Publics and the Maxi-Public: Investigating the Perceived Legitimacy of Citizens’ Assemblies in a Deeply Divided Place
Across the world, democratic deficits arise from a growing gap between citizens’ expectations and the way they perceive political systems to operate in practice. Deliberative theory offers a potential solution by advocating the direct involvement of ordinary citizens in structured decision-making. …
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The reformed Committee on World Food Security and the global governance of food security
… the functioning of a mechanisms that can address democratic deficits in global governance while elucidating related opportunities and challenges. The research also contributes to scholarship on global food security policy by challenging the application of previous analyses to the contemporary …
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Democratising Democracy: Reimagining Prisoners as Active Citizens Through Participatory Governance
… organisation User Voice and its prison-based democratic council model. Mixed methods were employed to examine the construction and operation of a council, which strives to give a voice to prisoners and to facilitate collaborative problem-solving with staff. The key research question was how …
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Crafting Democracy : Civil Society in Post-Transition Honduras
… with regard to civil society’s relation to democratic development. This study analyzes how, and under what circumstances, civil society can contribute to democratic development in newly established democracies. A conceptual framework is outlined that draws attention to civil society’s …
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Broadening public input into science policy decision making: can the democratic model for science communication influence scientific, innovation and technological trajectories?
… innovation in order to address possible democratic deficits in science and technology policy-making. A four-pronged research approach has been employed to examine different representations of the public(s) and different modes of engagement. The first case study investigates whether …
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Protests, Development and Democratization in Ethiopia, 2014-2020
… democracy, which remained an anti-thesis of democratic development. The thesis also explores the diverse understanding of democracy and the lack of consensus as to what constitutes it among the political entities involved in the current transition, as to whether democracy is primarily a …