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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"liberal democracy"”.
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Legitimising language : 9/11 and liberal democracy
… they have done under the banner of spreading liberal democracy to oppressed peoples in far off places, arguing that their actions represent asense of moral clarity and are necessary if the world is going to be safe from evil. This paper argues that the term liberal democracy and all the …
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Tainted perceptions: Liberal-democracy and American popular images of China
… light over Beijing's long-term intentions, the liberal-democratic philosophy that guided the formulation of these stereotypes was culturally reconfigured to meet the demands of a global economy. Hence, America's ideological structure acquired a dynamic of international applicability; a …
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Liberal democracy and industrial order : autoworkers under the New Deal
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1987.
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Tamed tiger? : the new notion of national security and liberal democracy
Includes bibliography.
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Liberal Democracy & the Political: A Comparison of Carl Schmitt and Sheldon S. Wolin
This study concerns the terms liberalism, the political, democracy, and liberal democracy focusing on the application of the terms in the discourse of two distinct political theorists: Carl Schmitt and Sheldon S. Wolin. I address the question of whether similarities exist between Schmitt and …
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Climate Justice: Its Meanings, Its Struggles, and Its Prospects Under Liberal Democracy and Capitalism
… is constrained by the logics of capitalism and liberal representative democracy (liberalism or the liberal order), which together filter out all but a narrow range of climate responses. I therefore argue that it is necessary to turn to a third front, (c) climate justice as just society, which …
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Amish and American? : making space for wholeness amidst compartmentalization in a modern liberal democracy
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1992.
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Competing schemas within the American liberal democracy : an interdisciplinary analysis of differing perceptions of church and state.
The current understanding of liberal democracy in many academic circles includes a set of restraints on the types of justification that are accepted for the creation of coercive legislation. There is much debate over which sources should be accepted to publically justify laws touching on education …
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An illusion of power; military conscription as a dilemma of liberal democracy in Great Britain, the United States, and France.
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 1973
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The Role of Political Behavior and Socio-Economic Development in the Transition and Consolidation of Liberal Democracy in Sub Saharan Africa
… level) in the transition and consolidation of democracy in Sub Saharan Africa. In the analysis, political behavior, defined as the acceptance of political elites to accommodate divergent views, is the most significant predictor of democracy in the region. Socio economic development is a …
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"Liberal democracy as a Kuhnian paradigm : applying a model confronted by irreconcilable accumulated anomaly as a normative prescription for the organisation of global society"
… to the social sciences in such a way as to admit liberal democracy to qualify as a paradigm in social and political theory. The argument maintains that the problems of economic and social inequality under liberal democracy are threatening its continued role as a paradigm at the same time, after …
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Consuming democracy : local agencies and liberal peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo
This thesis focuses on liberal peace building in the DRC. The thesis takes a critical approach which emphasises local agencies and their engagements with liberal peace building. However, it seeks to bring this critique back to the institutions with which liberal peace building is preoccupied, by …
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Making noises: contextualising the politics of Rorty’s neopragmatism to assess its sustainability
… debate regarding the sustainability of so-called liberal democracy. Volume 1, the novel, provides a fictionalised account of federal government involvement with the popular music industry in Australia during the 1990s. The story is told from the point of view of a newcomer to a music industry …
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“A Christian World Order:” Protestants, Democracy and Christian Aid to Germany, 1945-1961
… a universalist “Christian World Order” based on liberal democracy and Christian ethics. Only this new order, they argued, could supersede nationalist and materialist agendas and restore world peace. By rhetorically depicting Nazi and Communist "totalitarianism" as anti-Christian, a construction I …
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A theory of economic democracy
What is economic democracy? What, if anything, justifies it? This thesis argues that liberal theories of justice are objectionable insofar as they emphasize the distribution of resources, having little to say about how production is governed. The commitments central to liberal democracy call for …
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The Noble and the Base: Epideictic Rhetoric and the Character of Regimes
… the role of epideictic rhetoric in American liberal democracy. Using Aristotle’s theory of the epideictic, I examine epideictic speeches given during times of crisis and in times of relative peace fortifying American ends. I demonstrate the significant political contributions of epideictic …
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Liberal Education and the Best Regime: Aristotle’s Freedom of the Soul
… as his treatise on politics brings to light the liberal education that he intends for some of his students. This education appears to begin with habituation toward the virtues culminating in the attainment of the virtue of prudence such that the student will be liberated both from excessive …
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