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The Boundaries of Democracy : A Theory of Inclusion
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: This book provides a general theory of democratic inclusion for the present world. It presents an original contribution to our understanding of the democratic ideal by explaining how democratic inclusion can apply to individuals in a variety of context...
Warping Time : How Contending Political Forces Manipulate the Past, Present, and Future
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Abstract: Warping Time shows how narratives of the past influence what people believe about the present and future state of the world. In Benjamin Ginsberg and Jennifer Bachner's simple experiments, in which the authors measured the impact of different stories t...
Evading the Patronage Trap : Interest Representation in Mexico
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Why have Latin American democracies proven unable to confront the structural inequalities that cripple their economies and stymie social mobility? Brian Palmer-Rubin contends that we may lay the blame on these countries'systems of interest representati...
Opposing Power : Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies
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Abstract: Opposing Power argues that perceptions of regime vulnerability and mutual dependency by opposition elites shape the building of opposition alliances. When electoral autocracies are consistently dominant, opposition parties eschew fully fledged alliance...
Rationality of Irrationality : Political Determinants and Effects of Party Position Blurring
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Abstract: Citizens in democracies complain that political parties'positions on major issues are too ambiguous for them to confidently understand. Why is party position ambiguity so common? Are party positions ambiguous because political parties fail in forming c...
The Three Ages of Government : From the Person, to the Group, to the World
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Abstract: It is only in the last 250 years that ordinary people (in some parts of the world) have become citizens rather than subjects. This change happened in a very short period, between 1780 and 1820, a result of the foundations of democracy laid in the age o...
Political, General or Economic Strikes? New Types of Strikes and Workers' Contention
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Partecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 16, Iss 2, Pp 234-251 (2023)
Abstract: The article provides an overview of workers' collective actions occurred in Italy, characterizing a new wave of contention between 2008 and 2018. It focuses on the development of strike activities. While the literature suggests an increase in general/p...
20 lat Wydziału Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politologicznych Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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Abstract: Utworzenie naszego Wydziału przypadło na przełom wieków. Wchodziliśmy w tę nową epokę, profesorowie i studenci, ze znacznymi oczekiwaniami i nadziejami. Dla nas, politologów, otwierały się nowe możliwości prowadzenia badań systemowych, porównawczych, z...
Network Neutrality : From Policy to Law to Regulation
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) open access license. Net neutrality is the most contested Internet access policy of our time. This book offers an in-depth explanation of the concept, addressing its histo...
Construction and Demonstration of the Evaluation System of Public Participation Level in Urban Planning Based on the Participatory Video of 'General Will—Particular Will'.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Sustainability (2071-1050). Jan2023, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p1687. 17p.
Abstract: Under the requirement of the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, it is an important measure for the government to respond to the demands of the public in the process of urban governance to explore more extensive and...