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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Democratic societies"”.
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Young People’s Demography in Democracy: The Effect of Youth Cohort Size on Youth Political Attitudes and Behaviors in Democratic Societies (1995-2020)
… of young people within the adult population of democratic countries explains their political attitudes and participation. It investigates the effects of young people’s cohort size on their individual propensities to (1) vote in national elections, (2) participate in peaceful demonstrations (3) …
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The critical state of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in Initial Teacher Education (ITE): an exploration of student teachers’ initial understandings of and experiences with, a ‘praxis’curriculum design to promote greater inclusion, equality and active participation in global democratic societies
… equality, and active participation in global democratic societies. The study is conducted at University College Cork (UCC) in collaboration with Professional Master of Education (PME) student teachers as they carry out their practices of praxis across various schools in Cork City. The …
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Relativism in Democracy. Response to a new form of political theology
… Christian organizations have come to accept the democratic principle of popular sovereignty, attempting to define a new role for themselves within this framework as guardians of the moral principles democratic societies supposedly need in order to survive. This is reflected by a discursive shift …
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Comparative Analysis of Interrelations Between Democracy and Democratic Policing Practices
It is assumed that democratic policing will help to improve the respect of human rights and democracy in a given country. Using secondary data, this study explores cross-nationally the interrelation between democratic policing practices (e.g., community policing) and democracy and human rights.The …
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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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An Analysis and Rejection of Arguments for Religious Accommodation
… accommodation of their practices within liberal democratic societies. This analysis reveals that the types of practices that these arguments aim to accommodate primarily serve to perpetuate repressive and oppressive traditions---especially against women, and sometimes against men---that …
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Transnational Organized Crime and Destabilization in Democracies, Russian Organized Crime as Case Study
… organized crime on the functioning of democratic societies by adopting the Russian Organized Crime as case study. The descriptive research with regard to definition, scope and organization of transnational organized crime, along with the objectives, limitations and methodology of this …
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The Liberalism-Communitarianism Debate: A Neo-Hegelian Aufhebung
… in the traditions and customs of particular societies. The substantive conclusions of this methodology should involve public policies for achieving a community in which individuals recognize that they belong to a common pursuit of a conception of the good. Liberals reject these proposals from …
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Terrorism and Democracy
… consider it the method of choice for attacking democratic societies and ideals. Democracies are both uniquely vulnerable and uniquely resilient to terrorist attack, by virtue of the openness and liberal values that underpin them. This thesis will seek to examine why terrorism is effective in …
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Democracy, Citizens' Media, and Resistance: A Study of the New River Free Press
… as Ben Bagdikian and Robert McChesney is the undemocratic potential of the U.S. mainstream media system, dominated by a small number of highly consolidated, multinational, corporate media firms. In this context, other scholars, including Chris Atton, John Downing, Stephen Duncombe, Nina …
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Internal Security and Military Reorganization: The Rise of Paramilitaries in Developing Societies
… in the security structure of developing societies has been the rise of parallel military organizations (armed forces such as constabularies and militias outside the regular military and the police) concurrent with the ""third wave"" of democratization. This study develops a theory of why …
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The subnational politics of structured adjustment in Argentina : the case of San Luis
… of liberal economic reforms in emerging democratic societies during the 1980s and 1990s arouse widespread scholarly interest. The Argentine policy shift to structural adjustment under President Carlos Menem (1989-1995 and 1995-1999) was largely regarded by the literature as a successful …
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POSTCOLONIAL TRAGEDY: JAMAICA AND SOUTH AFRICA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
… of the recent attempts to establish viable democratic societies in the postcolonies of Jamaica and South Africa. The political tragedy that it puts forward is in this sense democratic political tragedy. The author examines G.W.F. Hegel's discussion of tragedy as the founding modern example …
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The politics of media and information in countries emerging from totalitarian regimes: the case of Romania
… media institutions as a general difficulty in democratic societies and as a specific challenge in countries that are emerging from authoritarian regimes. Based on more comprehensive studies about power, dominance, compliance, resistance and information monopoly developed in the United States, …
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Fourth Generation Warfare: America's Challenge in the Twenty-First Century
… in Lebanon all illustrate the weakness of democratic societies to deal effectively with Fourth Generation warfare. As a result, those who find themselves locked in a life or death struggle against Western society will apply the lessons of those conflicts in fighting stronger and better …
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Riffle : an efficient communication system with strong anonymity
Anonymous communication is an important part of democratic societies and freedom of speech. Whistleblowers, protest organizers, and, more broadly, anyone with controversial viewpoints have been using the limited form of anonymity the Internet provides to protect their privacy. Unfortunately, the …
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Learning to Do Democracy: Deliberative Capacity in Political Blogging Communities
… potentially enabling them to participate in democratic societies. The study unifies perspectives on the meaning of blogs in American politics. It presents a unique theoretical framework that incorporates community and social learning literatures. The Internet is thought to potentially enable …
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The arts as a means of cultural integration: a Chilean case study.
… which may contribute to the construction of more democratic societies? Taking contemporary Chile as its case study, this research delves into the potential of the arts to mirror and integrate fragmented sectors in a societys drive towards human development. To this end, it uses an …
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Explaining consumer perspectives on mobile news services: a study in South Africa
Access to news supports the development of democratic societies. News can promote sustainable community development and encourage healthy social, political, and economic engagement. Mobile news services (MNSs) are one means to reach out to citizens to share news and provide citizens with a forum to …
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