Contextual Report - European Commission
... state. However, this definition has been considered too narrow in modern democratic society for a number of reasons. First, having legal rights is insufficient to enable equal possibilities for all citizens to exercise their rights. Second, gaining and maintaining rights requires constant action and ...
... state. However, this definition has been considered too narrow in modern democratic society for a number of reasons. First, having legal rights is insufficient to enable equal possibilities for all citizens to exercise their rights. Second, gaining and maintaining rights requires constant action and ...
National Standards for Civics and Government
... the workings of their own and other political systems as well as the relationship of American politics and government to world affairs. Formal instruction provides a basis for understanding the rights and responsibilities of citizens in American constitutional democracy and a framework for competent ...
... the workings of their own and other political systems as well as the relationship of American politics and government to world affairs. Formal instruction provides a basis for understanding the rights and responsibilities of citizens in American constitutional democracy and a framework for competent ...
P. Pierson, Coping with Permanent Austerity
... Committee on Ways and Means, 1996 Green Book (1996). German welfare state clientele data and American electorate data cover 1996. ...
... Committee on Ways and Means, 1996 Green Book (1996). German welfare state clientele data and American electorate data cover 1996. ...
Cultural Diversity in Nanotechnology Ethics
... are, apart from their common topicality, it would be more appropriate to speak of ‘nanotechnologies’ (plural) than of a single ‘nanotechnology’, particularly because there is, contrary to many claims and hopes, no particular interdisciplinary collaboration.2 From an ethical perspective, it is diffic ...
... are, apart from their common topicality, it would be more appropriate to speak of ‘nanotechnologies’ (plural) than of a single ‘nanotechnology’, particularly because there is, contrary to many claims and hopes, no particular interdisciplinary collaboration.2 From an ethical perspective, it is diffic ...
How and Why Implicit Attitudes Should Affect Voting
... For a target to be processed more quickly as a function of the semantic relatedness of a priming stimulus, the meaning of that prime on that dimension must have been activated in memory. (e.g., honest, aggressive), finding that research subjects tended to be faster to categorize positive (negative) t ...
... For a target to be processed more quickly as a function of the semantic relatedness of a priming stimulus, the meaning of that prime on that dimension must have been activated in memory. (e.g., honest, aggressive), finding that research subjects tended to be faster to categorize positive (negative) t ...
Problem-driven governance and political economy analysis
... of greatest value to teams, and the best way to provide guidance that is practical and specific, but which can and should be tailored to particular country circumstances and specific questions to be addressed. The framework does not set out a particular product. GPE analysis can take a variety of fo ...
... of greatest value to teams, and the best way to provide guidance that is practical and specific, but which can and should be tailored to particular country circumstances and specific questions to be addressed. The framework does not set out a particular product. GPE analysis can take a variety of fo ...
Which Kind of Democracy for Whom? Explaining Citizen`s
... Western Germans, prefer socialist ideas of democracy over liberal principles (Sack 2014: 12ff.): While in the West an understanding of democracy near to the liberal model of democracy dominates, in the East the dominating understanding of democracy is one that corresponds to the socialist model of ...
... Western Germans, prefer socialist ideas of democracy over liberal principles (Sack 2014: 12ff.): While in the West an understanding of democracy near to the liberal model of democracy dominates, in the East the dominating understanding of democracy is one that corresponds to the socialist model of ...
Five Arguments for Deliberative Democracy
... entitled to participate or whether force other than that of the better argument is exerted). It provides no additional standards for assessing the quality of the results of deliberation. As a justification of the deliberative ideal of democracy, the proceduralist argument, too, is incomplete. As it ...
... entitled to participate or whether force other than that of the better argument is exerted). It provides no additional standards for assessing the quality of the results of deliberation. As a justification of the deliberative ideal of democracy, the proceduralist argument, too, is incomplete. As it ...
The Political Philosophy of St. Robert Bellarmine
... permitted to remark that a valid criterion of the value of any theory of the state or politics may be found in the wider philosophy of which it is an integrant unit. On few subjects of interest to the historian or the political philosopher is there more uncertainty or confusion than on that of the s ...
... permitted to remark that a valid criterion of the value of any theory of the state or politics may be found in the wider philosophy of which it is an integrant unit. On few subjects of interest to the historian or the political philosopher is there more uncertainty or confusion than on that of the s ...
Corruption, Corrosion, and Corporate Political Speech
... FirstAmendment will ultimately be brought down not by bruteforce but by poetic metaphor 1 ...
... FirstAmendment will ultimately be brought down not by bruteforce but by poetic metaphor 1 ...
Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth
... any particular set of economic institutions. 4. The distribution of political power in society is also endogenous, however. In our framework, it is useful to distinguish between two components of political power, which we refer to as de jure (institutional) and de facto political power. Here de jure ...
... any particular set of economic institutions. 4. The distribution of political power in society is also endogenous, however. In our framework, it is useful to distinguish between two components of political power, which we refer to as de jure (institutional) and de facto political power. Here de jure ...
David Hume and contemporary realism in political theory
... We have now everything in place to consider the structure of the paper. Chapter 2 is a description of the realist movement, such as it is advocated by Bernard Williams (2005), Raymond Geuss (2008) and William Galston (2010). More specifically, section 2.2 introduces the contemporary debate on ideal ...
... We have now everything in place to consider the structure of the paper. Chapter 2 is a description of the realist movement, such as it is advocated by Bernard Williams (2005), Raymond Geuss (2008) and William Galston (2010). More specifically, section 2.2 introduces the contemporary debate on ideal ...
Seeking and Securing Political Accountability in Africa
... feel that they are receiving a great deal of accountability from leaders; the reported supply of vertical accountability is even less than the demand for it. People in African countries may have begun to transform themselves from the “subjects” of past authoritarian systems into active “voters” unde ...
... feel that they are receiving a great deal of accountability from leaders; the reported supply of vertical accountability is even less than the demand for it. People in African countries may have begun to transform themselves from the “subjects” of past authoritarian systems into active “voters” unde ...
Who Speaks for the North? Politics and Influence in Northern Nigeria
... governing PDP, Nigeria’s largest party, but also of widespread grassroots outrage over political and economic corruption at all levels of government. In the aftermath of Buhari’s third loss at the polls, demonstrations by his supporters – mostly young Muslim northerners – degenerated into deadly cla ...
... governing PDP, Nigeria’s largest party, but also of widespread grassroots outrage over political and economic corruption at all levels of government. In the aftermath of Buhari’s third loss at the polls, demonstrations by his supporters – mostly young Muslim northerners – degenerated into deadly cla ...
Political Disagreement, Lack of Commitment and the Level of Debt
... Part of our contribution is methodological. The framework developed here allows us to integrate the analysis about the time-inconsistency of optimal policy choices, typical of the dynamic macroeconomic literature, into a political economy model. Our framework can be applied to study the effects of c ...
... Part of our contribution is methodological. The framework developed here allows us to integrate the analysis about the time-inconsistency of optimal policy choices, typical of the dynamic macroeconomic literature, into a political economy model. Our framework can be applied to study the effects of c ...
full paper - coimbra business review
... Democracies are a stage for the interaction of various interest and pressure groups, seeking to influence the development, adoption and implementation of public policies. The ability to influence is not symmetrically distributed among these groups. The definition of public policies in democracy is n ...
... Democracies are a stage for the interaction of various interest and pressure groups, seeking to influence the development, adoption and implementation of public policies. The ability to influence is not symmetrically distributed among these groups. The definition of public policies in democracy is n ...
Impact of globalization on socio-economic and political development
... still trying to find their places in the highly interconnected and globalized world, are impacted in general. One of the reasons of choosing these particular countries is that among all Central Asian republics only Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan were able to create relatively attractive conditions for fo ...
... still trying to find their places in the highly interconnected and globalized world, are impacted in general. One of the reasons of choosing these particular countries is that among all Central Asian republics only Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan were able to create relatively attractive conditions for fo ...
WHEN DOES FLEXIBILITY IN TARIFF RATES HURT TRADE? THE
... at the inception of the WTO, its member states negotiated maximum tariffs –defined as bound rates– on almost all traded goods. These upper bounds were often set at levels higher than a state had ever applied in the past (Ingco and Croome, 2004) and while tariffs are applied at roughly comparable le ...
... at the inception of the WTO, its member states negotiated maximum tariffs –defined as bound rates– on almost all traded goods. These upper bounds were often set at levels higher than a state had ever applied in the past (Ingco and Croome, 2004) and while tariffs are applied at roughly comparable le ...
- Wiley Online Library
... influence the judgments that people make about where those with differing views stand. Journalistic reports that are high in news value tend to emphasize conflicts and irreconcilable differences between political actors (Fiorina et al., 2005; Wilson, 2006). Also, media coverage often conveys complex ...
... influence the judgments that people make about where those with differing views stand. Journalistic reports that are high in news value tend to emphasize conflicts and irreconcilable differences between political actors (Fiorina et al., 2005; Wilson, 2006). Also, media coverage often conveys complex ...
Understanding Street-Level Bureaucrats` Decision Making
... levels of award rates. The average reported award rate is 33 percent, with a standard deviation of 17 percent.1 The Theory of Bounded Rationality Information in public policy is inherently ambiguous (Feldman 1989; Stone 1997; Zahariadis 1999). Because of this, individuals may respond differently to t ...
... levels of award rates. The average reported award rate is 33 percent, with a standard deviation of 17 percent.1 The Theory of Bounded Rationality Information in public policy is inherently ambiguous (Feldman 1989; Stone 1997; Zahariadis 1999). Because of this, individuals may respond differently to t ...
The Primacy of Politics in Separatism
... dependent variable, while several quantitative studies have been unable to single out regional factors because of their use of national states as observations (Fearon and Laitin 1999; Sambanis 2000; Collier and Hoeffler 2003). These methodological and empirical problems have possibly led to biased a ...
... dependent variable, while several quantitative studies have been unable to single out regional factors because of their use of national states as observations (Fearon and Laitin 1999; Sambanis 2000; Collier and Hoeffler 2003). These methodological and empirical problems have possibly led to biased a ...
The Arab Spring - College of Liberal Arts
... North Africa (MENA) region. The conference, titled ―Democracy and Development in the Wake of the Arab Spring,‖ examined the multiple dimensions to the political turbulence that has fundamentally transformed the region over the past year. Furthermore, the conference sought to analyze the prospects fo ...
... North Africa (MENA) region. The conference, titled ―Democracy and Development in the Wake of the Arab Spring,‖ examined the multiple dimensions to the political turbulence that has fundamentally transformed the region over the past year. Furthermore, the conference sought to analyze the prospects fo ...
electoral determinants of state repression in democracies
... these democratic characteristics and cannot account for the variation that exists between countries within these democratic institutions. In this paper, I suggest that electoral outcomes resulting from variation in institutional choice may have certain implications for a state’s likelihood of using ...
... these democratic characteristics and cannot account for the variation that exists between countries within these democratic institutions. In this paper, I suggest that electoral outcomes resulting from variation in institutional choice may have certain implications for a state’s likelihood of using ...
The Principles of Ostracism in Ancient Greek Thought Anthoula
... Indeed, the institution has earned a name as the most bizarre feature of ancient democracy. A great many of its features remain disputed, including the time and reason of its introduction, while not much is known about its historical context. In fact, there might be differences between the logic of ...
... Indeed, the institution has earned a name as the most bizarre feature of ancient democracy. A great many of its features remain disputed, including the time and reason of its introduction, while not much is known about its historical context. In fact, there might be differences between the logic of ...
The Sovereign and the Social: Arendt`s
... Freedom is understood as freedom from politics, the liberty not to engage in politics. Politics is reduced to the state and to government: [F]or government, which since the beginning of the modern age had been identified with the total domain of the political, was now considered to be the appointed ...
... Freedom is understood as freedom from politics, the liberty not to engage in politics. Politics is reduced to the state and to government: [F]or government, which since the beginning of the modern age had been identified with the total domain of the political, was now considered to be the appointed ...