President De Klerk and ethos by Johann Cornelius de Wet

“…In fact, given the principles of (Western) democratic politics, no South African State President or Prime Minister has ever reached out with so much apparent good will to the vast majority of South Africans. …”
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Le communalisme ou l’avenir de la Commune de 1871 by Pierre Sauvêtre, Frank Noulin, Jean-François Wagniart

“…This is the meaning of the ongoing construction of a communalist movement, which can find in the Commune of 1871 a set of inspirations – on the substitution of a confederation of communes for the state, the self-institution of a commune which is both democratic and social, and the emancipation of women – and in the work of Murray Bookchin a theoretical contribution to define the relationship between communalism and ecology. …”
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The antinomian framework of Western and non-Western democracies—from theory to application by Oliver Fernando Hidalgo

“…Without disregarding the undiminished significance of the idea of liberal democracy and its deep commitment to universal human rights, the necessity of a new accentuation of the concept of democracy is accepted in view of the observable democratic processes in non-Western societies. This should help to avoid both the blind spots of Eurocentrism and the misperception of countries as democracies that are merely masking their authoritarian or despotic character. …”
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Penser éducation au politique et questions environnementales dans la démocratie by Camille Roelens

“…A brief illustrative study of the approach and work of the Canadian music group Les Cowboys fringants (3) shows how this type of informal educator can play an important role to provide resources and porpositions of influence for human autonomy in dealing with environmental issues within the democratic political framework.…”
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Les territoires sahariens en Algérie. Gouvernance, acteurs et recomposition territoriale by Badreddine Yousfi

“…The modernization of political organizations through the central state has failed to establish a model of modern governance at the local level that is based on «democratic» values. Thus, these territories are experiencing a crisis of governance at a time when the traditional bodies have been weakened and rejected.…”
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Political parallelism in Iceland by Guðmundsson Birgir

“…However, voters and candidates of social democratic and liberal internationally oriented parties perceive a significantly lower degree of parallelism than others.…”
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La langue guarani, symbole instrumentalisé de la construction de la nation paraguayenne by Christine Pic-Gillard

“…This hybridization found its expression at the linguistic level in the Guarani / Castilian bilingualism, a myth which started at the time of  the  colonial Paraguay and has continued  during contemporary democratic Paraguay. The use of the Guarani language has certainly allowed the construction of the specific national identity based on a bilingualism and a bi-culture shared by all the citizens.Nevertheless new obstacles have emerged which question the opportunity to develop a minority language while Spanish is expanding in  North and South Americas and while the command of English seems to be an asset for emerging countries. …”
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La crise des années trente et la tension vers l’expertise géographique : expériences françaises et internationales. Une nouvelle frontière ? by Marie-Claire Robic

“…In the national schools of geography, and likewise internationally, university-based geography in the 1930s witnessed a marked change in orientation that led it towards application (including in the democratic countries considered here). By way of this novel trend, geographers encountered other disciplines, which were disciplines of action, and envisaged their interventions within pluri-disciplinary teams, or in the form of a specific contribution based on the idea of geographical synthesis and the cartographical message. …”
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Vers de nouvelles formes générationnelles d’engagement au Parti travailliste britannique ? by Nicolas Jara-Joly, Denis Rayer

“…Between 2015 and 2020, the Labour Party, a traditional social-democratic political party led at the time by Jeremy Corbyn, an uncharismatic man in his late sixties, benefitted from a high level of popularity among young people in Britain. …”
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La responsabilité sociale du journaliste comme socle du processus de production de l’information by François Borel-Hänni

“…Journalists’ role in democratic societies, which is to inform citizens, generates its own rights and duties. …”
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Le dilemme du Parti républicain dans le Wisconsin suite à l’élection de Trump by Roman Vinadia

“…While very successful in rural places, Donald Trump has been rejected by conservative Republicans from the suburbs, who constitute the last important demographic area the Party could try to win to compete with the Democrats. More importantly, the addition of a new electoral base within Republican ranks threatens the rapprochement between the Republican Party and the conservative movement. …”
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Des conditions de légitimité de l'institution scolaire dans une société des individus by Camille Roelens

“…This paper explores, from the perspective of political philosophy of education, the hypothesis that an explicit and assumed paradigm shift from a republican view of school to a more democratic, individualistic, liberal and morally minimalist conception of school may be necessary in the near future. …”
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Democracia alimentar para populações em vulnerabilidade social: o caso de cozinhas solidárias em Manaus, Amazonas by Camila Lago Braga, Cristiane Cavalcante Lima

“…Therefore, the objective of this article is to analyse how Solidarity Kitchens (SKs) contribute to the construction of a food democracy, which considers food from the perspective of equal, free, sustainable access, and with society's participation in democratic decision-making. For this study, two SKs located in the municipality of Manaus, state of Amazonas, were selected. …”
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Le vote ouvrier et l’élection de Donald Trump : histoire et limites du discours populiste by Tamara Boussac

“…Although recent evolutions in American politics may account for the pro-Trump vote in the Rust Belt states, this article intends to demonstrate that working-class disaffection for the Democratic Party is also the result of a long historical process and the product of an old populist rhetoric that political elites have regularly used throughout the 20th century. …”
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Soulèvement populaire au pays de Chávez by Julien Rebotier

“…In front of the reiterated threat of breaking both legal and constitutional orders, the budding (re)politicization of Latin-American societies might improve a culture of politics, strengthen a democratic order, and consolidate still weak national sovereignties in the region.…”
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US Foreign Policy of Chaos under Trump: the Wrecker and the Puppeteers by Pierre Guerlain

“…The articles then discusses the areas in which Trumpism is not really challenged by authentic opponents and tackles the issue of Russiagate, which can be seen as more a domestic construction engineered by a democratic Party which refuses to analyze its role in the loss of support that led to its defeat than a bona fide international relations issue. …”
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The Importance of Recognition for Equal Representation in Participatory Processes: Lessons from Husby by Karin Hansson, Göran Cars, Love Ekenberg, Mats Danielson

“…Despite the ambition to involve people on more equal terms, participation often still means that the audience is involved in clearly demarcated parts of the process and attempts to develop more deliberative democratic processes in urban planning often fail due to unequal representation in the participatory process. …”
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Aristotle and the Ọmọlúwàbí Ethos: Ethical Implications for Public Morality in Nigeria by Sunday Olaoluwa Dada

“… This essay explores the philosophical affinity between Aristotle’s concept of virtue as character habituation and the Yorùbá ethical and ontological understanding of ọmọlúwàbí as the foundation for re-examining the philosophical foundation of democratic governance in Nigeria. Based on the Aristotelian insistence that the good life is the end of politics, the essay argues for a rethinking of the concept of public morality as character-based political dynamics that enables politicians to think more about the social contract between the government and the governed, rather than an amoral understanding of politics that eschew morality and undermines the well-being of the citizens. …”
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L’injonction à participer au monde numérique by Serge Proulx

“…Or, on the contrary, could this type of interpellation lead to a more democratic distribution of the ability to act towards agents that are a priori remote from the centres of power ? …”
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Éduquer à représenter démocratiquement ? by Philippe Sahuc

“…Educating towards democratic representation should be a whole society stake, as seems to in crisis the political system which is the Republic groundings. …”
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