Legal Challenges and Enforcement Strategies: Bawaslu's Role in Addressing Election Violations in Indonesia's 2024 Simultaneous Elections by Faridhatun Nikmah

“…With the role played by Bawaslu in law enforcement, it can create a democratic and just country for the community.…”
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Les femmes parlementaires sociales-démocrates au Bundestag durant les « années 1968 » : entre marginalité et affirmation progressive (1967-1972) by Nicolas Batteux

“…Hence this article addresses the following question: did women in the Bundestag suffer from this detrimental situation to the same extent women that did in the 1968 movement? Social-democrat women in Parliament tended to be assigned to stereotypical topics, such as health and education, and they built their identity as parliamentary experts in those fields. …”
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Editorial: A New Chapter for IJIMAI by Rubén González-Crespo

“…The decision to offer open access to all was a clear commitment to democratizing knowledge and making scientific advances available to the entire community without financial barriers or access restrictions. …”
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Les marges renaissantes : Amazigh, Juif, Noir. Ce que la révolution a changé dans ce « petit pays homogène par excellence » qu’est la Tunisie by Stéphanie Pouessel

“…The recognition of “cultural diversity” thus plays a significant part in the political stakes following the events of January 14, 2011 and the first democratic elections to form a Constituent Assembly. …”
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Sofística e Retórica no Górgias de Platão by Daniel R. N. Lopes

“…The general idea pursued in this essay is that rhetoric integrates the sophistic education represented paradigmatically by Protagoras as a necessary means for the citizen to take part in the deliberative institutions of a democratic city (Counsel and Assembly), whereas in the case of Gorgias rhetoric – and more specifically, the judiciary species – consists in the end itself of his pedagogical activity, and not as a means to a wider moral and intellectual education – that is to say, the teaching of political art, identified with moral virtue in Plato’s Protagoras.…”
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Les rôles non institutionnels de représentation et de protection dans la Grèce antique by Gianluca Cuniberti

“… We begin with a summary of the notions of constitutionalism, non-constitution\-al\-ism, old and new constitutionalism applied to the democratic experience of ancient Athens. On this basis, non-institutional roles of representation and protection of citizens and noncitizens are explored, highlighting how this case study is particularly significant in exploring the pragmatic and non-theoretical aspect of the ‘constitutional’ formation of ancient Athenian democracy. …”
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« No guys with attitude ». Sociabilité et hiérarchie sexuelle dans une sex party gaie de New York by Etienne Meunier

“…Past research has observed that group sex venues were democratic places where men of different age, body, and social group came together for convivial sexual and social interaction. …”
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The Debate Between Conventional Ideology and Ethnic Politics in Africa by Seife T.K.

“…Political stability and democratic ideas are contingent on how African politicians respond to ethnic and language-based politics in the future. …”
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Between civic virtue and vice: Self-censorship of political views on social media among Norwegian young adults by Mozdeika Lukas

“…Different styles of media use call into question divergent ideals of democratic theory, setting self-expressive rationality at odds with deliberative norms of citizenship. …”
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Navigating the policy stream: Contested solutions and organizational strategies of policy entrepreneurship by Livia Johannesson, Martin Qvist

“…While effective for advancing solutions in the face of conflict and entrenched positions, organizational strategies also have important democratic implications for the legitimacy of pre-decision processes and the prospects for broad deliberation.…”
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Turkey's Struggle with Internet in its 3rd year: Don Quixote, Ostrich, Harakiri by Mustafa Akgül

“…With this lawr, our country twanted to be a leader among democratic countries, , and challenged giant companies like Youtube and Google and fined them with tax penalty. …”
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Digital Membership and Activist Strategies in Spanish Non-Statewide Parties by Adrià Mompó

“…The majority of these onlinesupporter roles are focused on campaign volunteering and activism, while democratic engagement is secondary. Moreover, NSWP membership structures present hybrid models, combining online and offline activities. …”
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El ITT: prueba de vida by Fander Falconí Benítez

“…It addition, the author charges first world countries with scant commitment to addressing ‘climate change’ and what Ecuador is sacrificing by putting forward a proposal contrary to its interests and demanding – along with other countries of the south – open and democratic negotiations.…”
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L’élaboration collective de cartes mentales, une démarche didactique structurante pour l’apprentissage du vivre-ensemble à l’école by Christophe Marsollier

“…Based on socio-constructivist conceptions, according to which the practice of democratic debates contributes to the construction of moral judgement in children and teenagers (Piaget, 1932, Xypas, 2003), we show how, in the light of analysis of practices carried out in a class of CM2 pupils, the elaboration of mind maps by the teacher and /or the pupils, during discussions of an educational nature, both structure and promote this approach to learning. …”
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Le peuple et la coca. Populisme cocalero et restructuration de l’échiquier politique bolivien by Cécile Casen, Erwan Sommerer

“…His leader, the former union activist Evo Morales, appears as the holder of a sovereignty which he claims to restore to the people so that it recovers a word stolen by the elites which shares the power since the democratic transition. This anti-authority and anti-imperialist speech carries the symbolic reorganization of a partisan scene from which are excluded the traditional parties, thrown outside the legitimate field of the real nation. …”
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À la croisée des idées de Francisco Ferrer et Célestin Freinet : l’expérience de l’école Elisée Reclus à Barcelone en 1935-1936 by Cécile Morzadec

“…By evoking a project for a “free” or “democratic” school in 1935-1936, which he would later call “educación autogestionada” [“self-managing” education] (Carrasquer, 1981), we can ask ourselves whether he was not a visionary in education: was he simply passing on models, or inspiring a new form of education?…”
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PROBLEMS OF NATIONAL (POLITICAL) IDENTITY IN THE CONTEXT OF IDEOLOGICAL DISCUSSIONS IN THE RUSSIAN POST-OCTOBER EMIGRATION by N. Omelchenko

“…The reasons for the widespread anti-democratic views and beliefs in the emigrant environment, the growing distrust of Western democracy and liberal institutions and values have been revealed. …”
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Responsible innovation goes south: critique, othering, and a commitment to care by Poonam Pandey

“…To re-image science-society relationships, initial framings of R(R)I argued for distancing from corrosive critiques of S&T and embracing democratic engagement. However, RIs fixation on Europe as its ‘Centre' led to ‘othering' and dis-engagement in the Indian context. …”
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“Justice Has a Bad Side”: Figurations of Law and Justice in 21st-Century Superhero Movies by Nicole Maruo-Schröder

“…Although they are critical of the loss of a democratic conception of justice, in which laws and the ways they are upheld and enforced are subject to independent control instances, the films also emphasize the necessity of suspending laws during crisis situations, thus supporting an ongoing state of exception in the face of contemporary terrorist threats.…”
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Imaging the Climate Crisis. The Ceramic Art of Horie, Galloway, Snider, and Rhymer-Zwierciadlowska by Mary Ann STEGGLES

“…Each desires to create a dialogue with the viewer and to incite positive environmental action. Horie began The Democratic Cup in 2016. She adapted the concept in 2018 to bring people with divergent views of the environment together for civil discussions in four different cities of Minnesota. …”
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