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(english) New factors such as governance, ownership and citizen’s participation are now a central focus of development …, Governance and Democracy) were added to the 1-2-3 surveys carried out in 2001, 2002 or 2003 in major cities in eight countries …) Des facteurs comme la gouvernance, l’adhésion et la participation des populations sont dorénavant placés au coeur des …
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Die vorliegende Arbeit geht der Frage nach, ob sich in China eine Zivilgesellschaft in der Entstehung befindet. Die Autorinnen und Autoren widmen sich hierfür einer Reihe politischer und sozialer Entwicklungen und Phänomene, die auf ein sich änderndes Beziehungsgefüge zwischen Staat und...
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Amartya Sen defends a rich conception of social choice theory against tendencies to limit social choice theory to the formal investigation of rules of collective decision-making. His understanding of social choice theory makes the field a natural candidate for exploring gender issues in the...
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This article argues that against all odds, the corporatist inclusion of the major societal interests in public decision-making is still a relevant governance mechanism in the European multi-level system. At the national level,a diversity of systems continues to operate. At least in some cases,...
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Persistence and breakdowns of democracy are the dominant features of Nepali politics.Democracy continues to be …
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This paper examines the larger issue of how a ‘free’ media performs during times of war with particular reference to US and India using case studies. It focuses on ‘national security’ becoming a major pivot around which the media discourse is shaped. How the media...
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factors that condition democratic participation. During several research trips, conducted between 2001 and 2006, I collected … cases, I found a very wide gap between the de jure mandate of citizen participation and the de facto state of affairs. The … examined empirical cases point to some of the conditionalities of democratic participation at the local level. The existence of …
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potential of particular kinds of innovation, what is needed is a more realistic, rational and vibrant ‘innovation democracy … across all areas: participation, responsibility and precaution. Each involves a range of practical methods and new … the importance of wider human and environmental values. Together, qualities of participation, responsibility and …
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We examine the relationship between participatory democratic institutions and effective agricultural policy in rural Peruvian municipalities, using a unique quantitative dataset of 100 Peruvian municipalities at two points in time, allowing us to examine (a) bottom-up, grassroots participatory...
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For the longest time, the participation of civil society has not been an area of interest for neither EU researchers … perspectives on civil society participation: the notion of civil society as organized actors that contribute actively to multilevel … promotion of civil society participation has thus achieved, and questions whether civil society participation has indeed led to …
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