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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"representative democracy"”.
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Jeremy Bentham's Theory of Representative Democracy
… of representation and its relationship to democracy, both in political theory and the history of political thought. Yet, despite the fact that he is one of the few thinkers to theorise representative democracy as his preferred form of government explicitly, Jeremy Bentham is conspicuously …
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Care and Political Representation: Exploring the Challenges of Contemporary Representative Democracy with an Account of Democratic Care Ethics
… our public and our political lives. Care and democracy, for example, can be intricately linked. This thesis addresses these links and presents an account of democratic care ethics as a productive approach to consider the challenges in contemporary democracies and the place and potential of …
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Quality and Competence: An Analysis of the Role of Mill's Qualitative Hedonism on his Conception of Representative Democracy
Traditionally, John Stuart Mill has been described as a transitional thinker who fails to fully understand the values he espouses. Critics contend that he cannot simultaneously espouse both utility maximization and the protection of individual choice-making as a non-trumpable value. Like his moral …
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Investigating Economic Inequality And Voter Turnout In The Industrialized Democracies
… ramifications for democratic accountability and representative democracy are discussed.
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Under what circumstances can a democratic country take steps to legally dissolve a political party?
Abstract summary<br/><br/><br/>An effective representative democracy requires the maintenance of both individual and collective political rights especially those of freedom of expression and association. Recognising the intrinsic value of political parties to modern representative democracy and …
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Diversity and Expertise in Representative Governance
Representative democracy is a widespread and essential part of democratic governance. Our understanding of it has been largely shaped by the triumph of elections that vest peripheral access to power through episodical polls. How would representative democracy look under different selection rules? …
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Constitutional tax limits at the state level: an overview and selected case studies
… history. The historical accounts suggest that representative democracy does not always yield socially desired outcomes and that the citizen initiative, a form of direct democracy, may provide a workable means of circumventing many problems associated with representative democracy.
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How social media is changing political representation in the United Kingdom
… rectify or exacerbate the so-calledcrisis within representative democracy. Theoretical arguments suggest that social media mayincrease the closeness between representatives and citizens through more direct andcommunicative forms of representation. Based on these assumptions, this thesis seeks to …
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The Politics of Town Hall Meetings: Analyzing Constituent Relations-in-Interaction
… that town hall meetings are institutions of representative democracy that present an opportunity for constituents to hold their elected representatives accountable in a public setting. <em>Constituent relations-in-interaction</em> glosses a complex set of interactional practices and …
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Policy making and civic involvement: Apathy or impotence?
… in order to promote the principles of representative democracy. To provide clarity and proximity to this national problem, I will contextualize my analysis within the circumstances surrounding the Sunrise Manor Township of Clark County, Nevada.
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From Governance to Consciousness: Reclaiming Participatory Agency Beyond Neoliberalism
… governance built for control, not collaboration. Representative democracy and capitalism have fused into a system that concentrates power, hollows agency, and accelerates environmental collapse. The solution is not better policy, but deeper participation and a paradigm change. An interdisciplinary …
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Civil society in Wales and European Union policy-making
… variables shape participation. The effect on democracy is uneven, with shades of corporatism evident both in the kind of organisations involved and in how the POS structures access. The space for a more participatory democracy is limited, with the primacy of representative democracy being …
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The Final Frontier of Freedom: a Prospectus for Future Democratization of the Middle East
… of his foreign policy, the promotion of democracy in the Middle East, is endemically flawed because the religious, political, or cultural conditions in the region would constrain, or prohibit outright, democratization. However, upon examination, the central cultural and religious …
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Politics of Electoral Reform: The Case of the United Kingdom’s 2011 Referendum on the Alternative Vote
… The second paper focuses on the tension between representative democracy and direct democracy and considers why the referendum became the pathway to decide on the issue. The third paper analyses the voting behaviour in the UK’s 2011 AV referendum and demonstrates that voters cast their votes …
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El Gran Manipulador: Political Survival, Dual Power, and the Emergence and Maintenance of Social Movements in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela
… However, the understanding of the modern democracy as a firmly institutionalized system has little room for the emergence and maintenance of influential social movements. This trend is changing as leaders of democratic states in Latin America begin to identify the disfranchised as a power …
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Courts, campaigns, and corruption : an empirical evaluation of the “appearance of corruption” rationale for campaign finance regulation
… might be sufficient to undermine the health of a representative democracy. There has been little empirical evidence to support this assertion, so to test this hypothesis, I fielded a novel survey containing different measures of factors influencing perceptions of corruption, perceptions about …
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Philosopher Kings, Then and Now: The Political Philosophy of IQ
… group psychology provide insight into the way democracy could relate to a hypothetical cognitive elite. I further suggest ways in which we could make use of the modern IQ test to improve the quality of our political leadership and make use of an important Platonic theory without abandoning …
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Talking over the waterfront: A qualitative study of Waterfront Toronto’s public engagement practice
… seen as a supplement to, not a replacement for representative democracy.
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Revisiting democracy : Canada's quest for a more participatory form of representative government
… be. In an effort to promote a citizen based democracy and avoid the further deterioration in relations between government and the citizens they claim to represent, four institutional and legislative reforms are suggested in an effort to reconcile basic democratic principles with realities of …
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