Democracy and Violence
Democracy as protection against intra-communal violence in Classical Greece
... the democracy of the early and late Classical period, and on whether a political community like Ancient Athens can even be considered a state acting independently upon its ...between democracy and ...
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Democratic Regression through Violence? Analyzing the Impact of Violence and Organized Crime on the Quality of Democracy in Mexico
... Abstract Violence in its different expressions and exercised by various state and non-state actors is currently one of the most pressing problems and challenges for various nations worldwide, as it has adverse ...
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Ethnic Violence and the Prospects for Democracy in the Aftermath of the 2007 Kenyan Elections
... This violence caused the highest number of deaths and displacements and now poses the greatest long-term risk to the stability of the ...“multiparty democracy,” Kalenjin politicians in the Rift Valley ...
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World on Fire? Democracy, Globalization and Ethnic Violence
... that democracy increases ethnic violence in MDM countries and the effect is larger for high levels of ...ethnic violence in autocratic countries, but the effect becomes positive (but insignificant) ...
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MANAGING VIOLENCE AND SUSTAINING DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA: AN UNRESOLVED AGENDA
... Electoral violence coupled with other manifestations of political violence such as intra and inter- party conflicts and the devastating influence of god-fatherism have continued to pose serious challenges ...
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Bosses, bullets and ballots : electoral violence and democracy in Thailand, 1975 2011
... The national political setting: parliamentary democracy and electoral competition under a patrimonial state Weak political parties and the Block-V ote electoral system Local settings: th[r] ...
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Democracy in the making
... Another debate surrounding gender that’s dividing feminists now is all the discussions and arguments about transgender politics. Trans people are absolutely right to say that they have been amongst the most ignored, as ...
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Promoting democracy
... On Kelley’s first question, where the simple answer is yes the election’s quality, whether good or bad, tends not to be in doubt anyway. But in other cases disagreements about the election emerge out of bias, not least ...
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Building Peace or Democracy? Perception of Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Democracy in Bosnia
... – democracy, international organizations, and free economies, are the foundations for lasting peace (Kant, ...that democracy allows for the resolution of conflict without ...
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Contextualising Genoa: Protest, violence and democracy
... of democracy becomes even more contestable when considering the vast numbers of senior business people who have been given unelected positions of significant power within New Labour’s previous and current ...
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Democracy: an Incomplete Invention. Reflections on Giovanni Sartori´s what is Democracy?
... Contractarians, metaphysical or materialist theories try to explain a phenomenon which continues to spill ink and blood. This paper focuses precisely in this aspect, specifically on Giovanni Sartori´s polemic book: what ...
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Nonprofits as schools for democracy : the justifications for organizational democracy within nonprofit organizations.
... workplace democracy might help provide more suitable and effective ...workplace democracy through adherence to virtues like reciprocity and mutual respect, we can begin to build and understand relationships ...
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Terrorism via Democracy? Assessing Democracy Promotion as a Security Rationale
... The success of Indian democracy is profound. The coun- try is unevenly industrialized and developed and is one of the most heterogeneous countries in the world. A healthy bal- ance has been struck in terms of ...
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Democracy of the Future. Comment on “Proposals for a Democracy of the Future” by Bruno Frey
... Under the current parliamentary situation, the governing ‘Law and Justice’ party can in practice enact any law without considering the view from the opposition, as it holds more than 50% (235 out of 460) of the seats in ...
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Violence is violence: comparing perceptions of intimate partner violence in homosexual and heterosexual relationships
... of violence between romantic partners will be defined as IPV 2 ...behaviours, violence or ...includes violence towards heterosexual women, heterosexual men, gay men and lesbian ...
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Violence
... These instances reveal how the nation-state remains a profound enabler of actual as well as institutional, invisible, structural, and systemic violence in the modern world. Yet, its institutions may also act as ...
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Science, Expertise, and Democracy
... If democracy and scientific expertise are indeed compatible, we then face a number of more concrete questions about how to reconcile the ...the democracy problem for ...
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Mindfulness, Democracy, and Education
... in Democracy and Education (1916), is usually contrasted as ...liberal democracy could be oversimplified as a state of maximum freedom from government interference and freedom to pursue individual desires, ...
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A human right to democracy?
... for democracy is supported by three considerations, situated in a context of four main facts about our judgments about how the world should be ...supporting democracy are (i) the interest in correcting the ...
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The epistemic circumstances of democracy
... a democracy be trusted to make correct decisions? Critics of democracy tend to argue that democracy cannot be trusted in this way while advocates tend to argue that it ...about democracy. In ...
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