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O triunfo revolucionário de 1959 consagrou em Cuba um novo conceito de democracia, com o intuito de garantir o acesso à vida política ativa de grandes setores da população, antes excluídos. Para isso, foi desenvolv...

Norberto Bobbio tem duas inserções fundamentais na teoria da democracia. Uma como teórico da democracia ética e participativa, em seu período acionista - em que pertencia ao Partido da Ação, nos anos 40 do século...

This article explores the performance of ANO 2011 and Dawn of Direct Democracy—two new subjects of the post-2013 Czech party system—in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament. Programs and statements of both mo...

The editorial introduction to Volume 27, Issue 2 of Current Issues in Education offers a tribute to Dr. David C. Berliner and provides an overview of the issue’s eleven articles. In Part I, “Always in Our Corner: Hon...

Epistocracy, the rule by the experts or educated, poses a significant challenge to authentic democratic rule. Epistocrats typically reason from the premise, “experts have knowledge of political truths” to the conclus...

Social media play an important role in the dissemination of political information and in political dialogue among agents, agencies and citizens. We study the effects of social media on democratic attitudes. Our analysis ...

This study has explored the historical evolution of citizens' political participation: from direct democracy in ancient city-states to modern digital mechanisms of civic engagement. It has examined the factors that influ...

The theoretical debate on democracy for a longer period is one of the most dynamic debates within the political sciences, associated with plenty of controversies and paradoxes in terms of lack of consistent principles of...

It is evident that despite the originality of the institution of the Catholic Church even its representatives had to reflect in some way then realia and exerted traditions of the antic world. This fact found its reflecti...

Democracy is one interrested topic of discussions especially in relation to Islam. Many questions emerge associated with Islam and democracy such as: Does Islam has the concept of democracy? Does democracy compatible wit...

Credible election has become a critical requirement for democracy and good governance. The safety of the environment in which the election is conducted is also necessary for acceptability of the outcome of the election. ...

O surgimento, e afirmação, de uma corrente de estudos críticos em segurança internacional plantou firmemente a idéia de que os problemas de segurança internacional não estão meramente relacionados com aspectos ob...

This paper deals with the sluggish Europeanisation efforts of the current political elites of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A typical explanation for the lack of progress would be the complex structure of consociational democr...

This theoretical paper discusses the controversial development of civil society in the new member states (NMS) over a quarter century of systemic change and after 10 years of EU membership. In doing so, it attempts to el...

In the third wave of democratic changes in the early 1990s when the Central and Eastern European (CEE) political landscape changed radically and the democratisation processes started in the eastern part of the continent,...

As relações trabalhistas vêm apresentando uma série de iniciativas de negociação inovadoras nos últimos anos no Brasil, seja no âmbito da concertação social, seja no âmbito das relações de trabalho dentro da...

This article focuses on discussions about the role of the public in the political sphere presented in the writings of philosophers and scholars examining public opinion and American democracy during the 19th and early 20...

The abuse of Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution during the late presidency of Hindenburg has been criticized in many previous studies as one of the key factors of the collapse of the Weimar Republic that led to the es...

According to some of his colleagues and disciples, when Carlos Nino died, in 1993, he was beginning to work on a project trying to extrapolate his theories to the international realm. In this paper, I pick up at least an...

Political representation and democracy in several European countries have faced considerable challenges in recent decades. Especially worrying are the decline in electoral turnout and party membership, along with the dec...

A afirmação genérica um nexo direto entre democracia, liberdade e descentralização não se justifica, sustenta o autor. O tema é desenvolvido em dois níveis: mediante a consideração de problemas da democracia em...

One dimension of the Russo–Ukrainian war is the confrontation between authoritarianism and democracy in economic matters. Ukraine is currently engaged in a dynamic process of establishing the democratic legitimacy of p...

This review essay focuses on Francis Fukuyama’s book Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, which was published in 2018. The text emphasises placing Fukuyama’s new publication in the context...

This paper is about the social control practices found in the Brazilian National Health Care System (SUS) regarding its pedagogical dimensions. Social control practices have been deemed as alternatives to direct democrac...