The relationship between democracy and environmental protection is complex. Previous research has indicated that … democracy's effects on environmental proection are quite mixed. These studies have tended to focus on the overall … examine the linkages between political participation and environmental protection, arguing that a consistently mobilized …

forms of decentralization conducive to a genuinely more participatory democracy? The argument rests on a comparison between … three participatory designs in Marseille, Montreal and Quebec. Has decentralization encouraged participatory democracy in … that offer blueprints of these new sites of participation relate to older projects? Some of the analyses underpinning this …

This paper examines the contextual effects of co-ethnic homogeneity on the political participation of Asian Americans … extent to which different contexts influence political participation. Previous studies have found that ethnic concentration …

This paper argues that the increasing participation of American Indians in U.S. electoral politics demands a …, I develop a typology of Indian political participation in non-tribal politics, and present the conceptual challenges … such participation makes against tribal sovereignty …

participation rates by members constant over time, or do they decline? If the trend is towards decline, why does participation … meetings of members of a charter school advocacy organization to track participation by the entire member population for five … years, beginning at the time of the organization's creation. I find that participation does decline over time, but original …

Food democracy is an important issue for human security globally. This paper seeks to address the effects of historical …

epistemic quality of green deliberative democracy. In political theory, it is argued that deliberative democracy, in general … own existing behavior. Certain deliberative arrangements, such as Goodin's (2003) reflective democracy, are vulnerable to … democracy, i.e., (1) universal agendas; (2) democratic disagreement resolution; and (3) epistemic performance. I suggest several …

municipal corruption and reform, political participation, and democracy in immigrant communities, the paper examines the Bell … case study. It is argued that the city's primary democratic institutions, voter participation, local media coverage, and … manager form of government contributed to a climate of non-participation in the city. In this ‘failed state,' local officials …

presents a challenge for the conceptions of agonistic democracy developed by Beltran and others and argues that what is called …