Eleanor Roosevelt at the United Nations: “Diplomacy from Below” and the Search for a New Transatlantic Dialogue by Raffaella Baritono

“…On the one hand, she was conscious of her official status as American officer and the symbol of the American democratic model; on the other, her will to give expression and voice to the questions posed by American and European civic associations and their commitment to democracy, social justice and human rights in the growing Cold War climate provoked tensions and ambiguities that proved difficult to solve.…”
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The African Charter on Democracy, Election and Governance and Constitutionalism in Nigeria by Baba Isaac Ibrahim

“… The practice of democracy in Nigeria has been rippled with many challenges especially, the lack of democratic culture largely due to long military rule before the year 1999. …”
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Faire mémoire par le trait ou les tribulations latino-américaines de Charlie by Frédérique Langue

“…Political caricature appears to be the expression of a traumatic experience and a shared political culture through republican and democratic practices as well. However, on a democratized continent which is still grappling with memory and the traumatic past of dictatorships in a conflicting present-day, this imaginary is also strongly questioned by authoritarian ideological options. …”
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Contemporary Nigeria and the Deficit of Deliberative Democracy: Exploring the Indigenous Value of Àgbájọ ọwọ́ as Collegiality by Ronald Olufemi Badru

“…First, a fundamental deficit of democratic practice in contemporary Nigeria is that electoral choices/candidates are largely disconnected from the spirit of vibrant deliberation/consideration by the Nigerian demos. …”
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Podemos: ¿regeneración democrática o impugnación del orden? Transición, frontera política y democracia by Javier Franzé

“…This paper poses the question of whether Podemos represents a democratic regeneration or a refutation of order. It analyzes their discourse in relation to the narrative of the Transition, which legitimizes the Spanish political order, taking the 15M discourse as a historical precedent. …”
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De quelles indignations parle-t-on ? by Leïla Tazir

“…Often related to the « civilizational crisis, » the 15-M revealed a big issue: the democratic deficit that some collectives try to fill in.…”
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Les élections européennes de 2014 : une analyse comparative des résultats aux échelles nationale et régionale by Christian Vandermotten, Pablo Medina Lockhart

“…It opens on a classification of the political parties, leading to an elementary typology : parties developing a leftist critics of the ruling forms of the European policy ; parties agreeing with the ruling trends of the European agenda, either on a social-democratic or labour basis, or on a liberal, conservative or christian-democratic one ; eurosceptic or europhobic parties, on the basis of rightist and/or nationalistic attitudes. …”
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Critical Analysis of Human Rights Challenges with Freedom of Information in E-government by Jaza Valadbeygi, Vali Rostami, Manouchehr Tavassoli Naeini

“…Given the effective role of cyberspace and the use of new electronic achievements in today’s life and facilitating the provision of government services and optimization of public resources, e-government services in the form of freedom of information can lead to democracy and institutionalization of democratic mechanisms. It can also provide the needs of the people, leading to the freedom of information in the context of e-government. …”
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Lived Poverty and the Fate of African Democracies by Edson Ntodwa, Boniface Dulani, Mwayi Masumbu

“…Democracy is deemed to fail in less developed countries as poverty has proven to be detrimental to democratic performance. This study offers a perspective on the effects of poverty on the fate of democracy in Africa. …”
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EU Financial Assistance to Civil Society in Turkey: Shrinking the Political Space in the Post-Gezi Process? by Sinem Bal

“…That is, the EU has focused on liberal-democratic cooperation with civic organic intellectuals, based on the conviction that civil society is the engine for social and political transformation. …”
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State Power Legitimacy Crisis in the Era of Globalization by I. I. Osvetimskaya

“…Mouff, power relations are the basis of social relations, and the main issue of democratic politics is not how to eliminate power, but how to create such forms of power that could be more compatible with democratic values. …”
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Separation of iron-nickel alloy nugget from limonitic laterite ore using self-reduction by Ju P., Ryom K., Hong K.

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The End of the End of History: A Political-Economy Perspective by Ben Zissimos

“…Abstract From the standpoint of the focus of this article, we need to find a better way to compensate the losers from globalisation so that voters re-engage through the democratic process with openness and benefit from the potential for increased prosperity that this holds.…”
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La Scuola Rinnovata de Giuseppina Pizzigoni entre droits de l’enfant et changement social by Sandra Chistolini

“…From the perspective of ethnomethodology, we discuss the validity of the experimental method for teaching according to nature, truth and experience for an inclusive and sustainable school characterised by processes of democratic socialisation.…”
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UNPACKING THE LEGACY OF MILITARY RULE: HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN NIGERIA (1985-2007) by OLUTAYO AYOBAMI AJAYI, OYEDOKUN MOJEED OYETUNJI

“…The research also assesses the efforts of successive democratic governments to address these violations, including truth-telling initiatives, judicial reforms and reparations. …”
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The Post-Authoritarian Chilean Party System between Continuity and Change by Uğur Tekiner

“…Whilst continuity found its roots in the pre-authoritarian period and Chile’s long-running democratic tradition, change was particularly enforced by the anti-democratic practices of the military government. …”
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La Révolution dans la Liberté : des transformations économiques et sociales à l’époque de la Guerre froide by Élodie Giraudier

“…In 1964, the Christian-Democrat candidate, Eduardo Frei, won the presidential elections with more than 56 % of the votes. …”
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The Representation of Poverty and the Poverty of Representation by Pablo J. Boczkowski

“…In this essay I draw upon both my reporting at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, United States, and my ethnography of the digitization of mental health work in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to examine the representation of poverty and the poverty of representation in contemporary social and political discourse.…”
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Revisiting Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life – A Critical Review by Md. Lab Hossain, Mahmuda Akter

“…Therefore, this book will serve as a trajectory not only for understanding the Western political sphere but also for the liberal democratic context of the subcontinent. …”
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Informing immigrant voters: Chinese-language media in New Zealand election campaigns, 2008–2020 by Kate McMillan, Fiona Barker, Caleb Hoyle

“…‘Ethnic’ media have an important democratic role to play in informing immigrant voters about their choices at election time. …”
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