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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"democratic culture"”.
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Heroic individualism: the hero as author in democratic culture
My study focuses on the literature of democratic morality, with specific reference to the question of "heroic individualism." I attempt to elucidate the notion of heroic individualism by examining three modern democratic moralists whose work occupies the space between politics and literature: Jean …
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The 'history of everyday life' and democratic culture in Britain, 1918-1968
This thesis is a study of popular social history and education in mid-twentieth century Britain. It argues that the ‘history of everyday life’ was a guiding framework for how ‘ordinary’ people sought to understand themselves and the world around them in this period. The ‘history of everyday life’ …
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Reconsidering the siblings : a critical study of Robert Bly's The Sibling Society
… consequences of a courageous experiment in democratic culture. Through an analysis of the American educational system, the media, the family, and the corporate culture, I attempt to show that America's early Puritan roots and the manner in which it broke from its European heritage led to a …
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The public and the popular media in China
… is understood as a central element in Western democratic culture, it has a subordinate place in Chinese culture. These assumptions are examined through a study of the readership of the Popular Press and through text analysis. How the Popular Press engages with the general public, how the …
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Political history of the Serbian media in transition (2000-2006)
… framework alone would automatically produce a democratic environment were wrong. This study demonstrates that the media cannot accelerate the transition process, nor bridge the gap in democratic culture, because the tempo and extent of the media reform is set by the political elite through …
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Executive interference and the erosion of the rule of law: a comparative study of the prosecution of official corruption offences in Nigeria, South Africa, and the United States of America
… offences erodes the rule of law, threatening democratic integrity and governance. This thesis examines this erosion in Nigeria, South Africa, and the United States of America through a comparative doctrinal study, analysing how constitutional sociology, political economy, cultural politics, …
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ΑΠΟ ΤΗ ΔΙΔΑΣΚΑΛΙΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΔΕΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΔΙΑΜΟΡΦΩΣΗ: ΔΙΔΑΓΜΑΤΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΟΝ ΝΑΖΙΣΜΟ ΓΙΑ ΤΗ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΚΗ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗ
… (Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture – RFCDC) του Συμβουλίου της Ευρώπης και υλοποιήθηκε σε δύο διαδοχικές διδακτικές συνεδρίες, οι οποίες σχεδιάστηκαν με βιωματικό και συμμετοχικό χαρακτήρα. Η παιδαγωγική προσέγγιση αξιοποίησε δραστηριότητες ενσυναίσθησης, ιστορικής …
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An Educational "Clip": Arab Students' Experiences of Curriculum in a U.S. University
This is a multicultural study of culture adaptation, language challenge, identity formation, and power struggle -"CLIP"- depicting three Arab students who have attended or are currently attending a University in the rural South East Region of the United States of America (circa 2009-2010) When Arab …
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Slaying the Leviathan: Catholicism and the Rebirth of European Conservatism, 1920-1950
… decades earlier had been largely opposed to the democratic Versailles order. Their continent-wide transition to democracy has yet to be convincingly explained. The answer, I argue, should be sought at the level of social thought. Following a number of anthropologists and political scientists, I …
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Imagined communities, divided realities : engaging the apartheid past through 'healing of memories' in a post-TRC South Africa
… argues that, in the attempt to build a shared democratic culture among ordinary citizens in post-apartheid South Africa, insufficient attention has been paid to transformations of interpersonal domains. The dissertation examines the process and effects of the Healing of Memories (HOM) project …
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How Romanian Governmental Elites Conceptualize The European Union As an International Society
… suggest that the conscious recognition of common culture and common values help distinguish between system and society at the regional level because they imply adherence to a common political identity. It is widely agreed in the ES that an international system develops an international society and …
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The institutional design of intra-party democracy through legal instruments: Turkish case
… parties in fact display a high level of non-democratic administration. The main reason is that the TPPL only pays lip service to the idea of IPD and requires no specific measures apart from establishing a party congress with a representative form of democracy. By establishing and holding …
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The nexus between national and student politics: managing student conflicts in four African universities in an era of democratic transition
… South Africa and Tanzania are still transiting democratically, there is a disparity between democratic consolidation at the national level and the lower levels of the society such as Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) where the national democratic culture is yet to be entrenched. As a result, …
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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 …
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Exploring new territory: an initial investigation into the potential of a formal industry capacity building programme to shift values among Cape Town paratransit operators
… have the potential to assist in transforming the culture in the paratransit industry, a culture which has been described as violent, aggressive and undemocratic. As culture can shift through industry-leader driven changes in values, the first step was to understand what values are held by leaders …
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Labour Market and Non-labour Market Outcomes of Education in Bangladesh: Does Education Matter in the Formation of Outcomes in Adulthood?
… such as becoming good citizens, developing a democratic culture and social awareness, and stimulating moral, human, cultural and social values (Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh (GoB), 2010). However, to the best of my knowledge, there is limited empirical evidence on such …
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Challenges for the Democratisation Process in Tanzania. Moving Towards Consolidation 50 years after independence?
… not been sufficiently considered in the liberal democratic tradition. Liberal democracy is necessary for a democratic development, but not sufficient for democracy to be consolidated. For that a substantive democratic development is necessary.
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“La presunción de constitucionalidad del discurso ofensivo genérico entre particulares en redes digitales en Colombia”. El tránsito hacia la construcción del ´modus vivendi´ de libertad de expresión
Esta investigación tiene por objeto establecer una crítica a la regla jurisprudencial establecida en la sentencia SU-420 de 2019 de la Corte Constitucional de Colombia. Con esta sentencia de unificación, al discurso ofensivo en redes sociales en Colombia se le reviste de lo que en palabras de la …