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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"participatory democracy"”.
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Environmental justice and participatory democracy: An emancipatory policy proposal
Environmental Justice and Participatory Democracy: An Emancipatory Policy Proposal analyzes the public participation guidelines for the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The author argues that four challenges must be addressed before the goal of environmental justice can be achieved. These …
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Performing Union: Walt Whitman, Participatory Democracy, and Antebellum Performance Culture
"This dissertation examines the antebellum editions of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (those published in 1855, 1856, and 1860) within the context of his indebtedness to antebellum performance culture, particularly as represented in the streets, in the theatres, and in the public halls that housed …
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Participatory democracy and urban school governance: Toward a developmental conception
… based upon the ""developmental"" conception of democracy derived from the political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, John Dewey, and Mohandes K. Gandhi. In the process the philosophical underpinnings of current school governance, as well as school-based management …
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Socrates café: an effective mechanism for realising a more participatory democracy?
… take active part in creating a more deliberative democracy” The author of this dissertation co-founded SPI, and it is under its auspices that the Socrates Café project is spearheaded. The Socrates Café ‘movement’ has spawned the establishment of more than 500 democratic communities of …
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Participatory Democracy in the Chinese Cyber World: Case Studies from Weibo
… social media platform, and its relationship to participatory democracy in China. Weibo is a complex social space due to the interplay of different forces and social actors. On the one hand, Weibo provides the space for bottom-up political participation: it expands the horizontal discursive space …
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Federal Administration and Participatory Democracy: The Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Services (Ascs) Farmer Committee System
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Assessing the Boundaries of Participatory Democracy within an Emancipatory Political Framework: The Case of Parish Development Committees in Jamaica
… empirically expands the existing knowledge on participatory democracy through a study of Jamaica's Parish Development Committees (PDCs). These groups offer an avenue for Jamaicans to inform government policy, and this analysis explored the extent to which supportive institutional, …
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Reconciliation, peace and sustainable development: a case study of the African National Congress’ participatory democracy in Kwazulu Natal Province, 1994 -2009
… building and sustainable development regarding participatory democracy spearheaded by the African National Congress (ANC) in the KwaZulu-Natal province from 1994 to 2009. It starts with a historical context, explaining the genesis of the political violence that characterised this province in the …
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Democratic Administration in the United States Forest Service
… years offers the opportunity to assess whether participatory democracy offers a better paradigm for determining the public interest. This research focused on four cases of reported successful collaboration in Region One of the Forest Service and involved in-person interviews with 17 Forest …
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Democratic Administration in the United States Forest Service
… years offers the opportunity to assess whether participatory democracy offers a better paradigm for determining the public interest. This research focused on four cases of reported successful collaboration in Region One of the Forest Service and involved in-person interviews with 17 Forest …
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La democrazia partecipativa:tendenze all’istituzionalizzazione
This thesis aims to analyse the participatory democracy taking the perspective of one of the tendencies that cross it: the institutionalisation. Given the premise of a juridical approach to this multidisciplinary subject, the work suggest the adoption of a strict concept of participatory democracy …
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Imagining Jazzocracy: Notes Toward a new Democratic Subject
<p>What does participatory democracy look like? This essay finds an answer in the indigenous art form of the United States—jazz. Political engagement in America must learn from the jazz aesthetic which realizes the communal projects of individuals in concert. After a brief survey of the biological, …
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The Internet as a Participatory Medium: An Analysis of the Eksi Sozluk Website as a Public Sphere
… on the public sphere center on the idea of participatory democracy, deliberation on public concerns and needs, and how the coordination of public opinion steers political action. This study investigates the communicative structure of the public sphere on the Internet by considering public …
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The Workers' Educational Association and the Pursuit of Oxford Idealism, 1909-1949
… and active citizenship was the cornerstone of a participatory democracy. This thesis thus explores how Oxford Idealists used the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) to pursue the aim of cultivating good citizenship and forming a common purpose for the future society they wished to see …
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The Impact of State-Promoted Participation in Democracy and Development: A Comparison of Venezuela and Mexico
<p>During the past two decades participatory democracy policies came to be seen as a useful alternative to address high inequality and lack of meaningful political representation allowed by clientelist politics in various parts of the world. This project explores the question: what is the impact …
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Public participation, political representation and accountability: the case of violence prevention through urban upgrading (VPUU) in Harare Khayelitsha, in Cape Town
The aim is to deepen the South African democracy at all levels of government. However, as local government is “the closest to the people” it is regarded by government as the most appropriate sphere to implement participatory democracy mechanisms. Pertaining to this, ward committees were introduced …
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A critical analysis of decentralization in Zimbabwe: focus on the position and role of a Provincial Governor
… and role hinder or enhance representative and participatory democracy, accountability, devolution and empowerment, as ideals of decentralization. This contribution examines provincial governance in Zimbabwe as part of the local government system.
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Post-Capitalist Struggles in 21st Century Latin America: Cooperation, Democracy and State Power
… such as collective management, solidarity and participatory democracy, and their ability to develop the political capacities to formulate clear demands and strategies through the state, these four cases can indeed be considered examples of post-capitalist struggles. However, as mere glimpses of …
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