Local Democracy
The hollowing out of local democracy and the 'fatal conceit' of governing without government
... the local elections on 4 th May show that insofar as new modes of political participation have been introduced through the governance processes discussed above, they have failed to re- invigorate local ...
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Local Councillors: scapegoats for a dysfunctional participatory democratic system? Lessons from practices of local democracy in Johannesburg.
... the local democracy discourses and how various the participatory platforms, the most efficient forms of communi- ties’ involvement into the management of their own environment are definitely not the ...
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Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [HL]
... the Local Government Act 1985, an economic prosperity board established under section 83 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 or a combined authority established ...
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Local democracy and public accountability in Uganda: The need for organisational learning
... participatory democracy has been used as a tool of local democracy in Uganda especially at the in village ...higher local councils and the people in the ...lowest local council is ...
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Social shaping of deep geothermal projects in Alsace: politics, stakeholder attitudes and local democracy
... politicians, local association and residents give to geothermal ...in local climate plans, for instance—and sustainable economic development, consistent with local social ...the local ...
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Local Democracy and Instruments of its Functionality in Local Selfgovernment in Lithuania: Case Study of Alytus and Sirvintos Municipalities
... of democracy in the ancient times, the changes that took place as years went by are evident – democracy has transformed, served the purpose in some cases but failed in ...destroying democracy, have ...
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Reflection of local democracy in community development
... "Local Democracy" in the Leadership and Governance System of the Sultanate of Buton with application to community ...of Local Democracy that have been practiced in the area of ...
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Local Democracy and Economic Growth
... for local institutions, and Models 5-6 reveal scant evidence of coding circularity with respect to democratic institutions at the national ...between local democracy and subsequent economic growth, ...
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Out of control? : local democracy failure and fiscal control boards
... The existing literature on government failure has several key deficiencies. First, these studies discuss government failure broadly but assume a democratic voting pro[r] ...
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Exercise agency? The role of elite actors in local democracy in English local government: the local democracy maker.
... of local government (ODPM 2006; DCLG 2006) suggested that the involvement of locally elected representatives and the contribution of local politics to managing the locality were not recognised or valued as ...
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Democracy in trade unions, democracy through trade unions?
... union democracy, they also derive from relatively contingent decisions made a century or more ago (for example, unions subject to state repression often adopted highly centralized, almost military methods) which ...
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Is this local e-democracy? How the online sphere of influence shaped local politics. Empirical evidence from the Manchester Congestion Charge referendum
... Henman (2011) in examining policy making in the Australian public sector argues that the omnipresence and usage of digital media means that electronic networks stimulate policy thinking in terms of networks. Esher (2011) ...
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From evaluating democracy assistance to appraising democracy promotion
... towards democracy promotion are crucially important to help mini- mise the potentially high costs of avoidable policy ...the democracy promoter’s reputation, but the dashed hopes and disappointments in ...
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Democracy Dies in Dualisms. A Response to “Dewey and Democracy”
... I suggest that if we divest ourselves of the dualities, debates, and Cartesian quests for certitude, it becomes possible to articulate a truly Deweyan way forward. Thus, the title of my essay, which is a riff off the ...
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MUSLIMS' APPROACHES TO DEMOCRACY: Islam and Democracy in Contemporary Indonesia
... and a smooth embarking spot for democratization process. Despite low, there are positive changes in the landscape of politics. In this regard, Rasyid Anies Baswedan identifies four significant changes in the political ...
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The long march to collaborative democracy and open source planning – public participation in English local governance
... of local governance, labelled ‘modernising local government’ which continued through the government’s entire term in office, in a bewildering series of initiatives signalled by local government White ...
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Schooling for Democracy
... that democracy would be the loser if we insisted on forcing all students into the same college-prepa- ratory ...to democracy we invite by insisting that equal opportunity means the same curriculum for ...
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Democracy and taxation
... to democracy by using a sample of 17 countries from Western Europe, North America, Oceania and Japan between 1815 and ...of democracy is examined we see that the initial expansion of the franchise actually ...
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Taxation and democracy
... (2003), democracy means free popular elections to fill positions of power, while Welzel (2007) defines democracy by constitutional constraints on the power of the state, and by popular control over ...of ...
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Pyramidal Democracy
... Pyramidal democracy is extremely fluid and responsive to the electorate. At any time, a dissatisfied node can replace its delegate. A dissatisfied voter can defect from a node, and too many defections can force ...
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