The power of the cities and the power in the cities: a multiscale perspective from Portugal by José Alberto Rio Fernandes, Filipe Teles, Pedro Chamusca, João Seixas

“…In this setting, power fragmentation and government to governance transitions, which are indisputable and significant phenomena, go hand in hand with urban movements that are becoming increasingly relevant, both through their direct action, and as a consequence of democratic responsibility. In Portugal, however, urban movements and civic associations in general seem rather discreet in their activities, dimension and role. …”
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Conditions spatiales de la démocratie participative. « Meetings » à Vosloorus (Ekurhuleni, Afrique du Sud) by Philippe Gervais-Lambony

“…To what extent this form of neighbourhood participation is merely a democratic façade, a pretext to incite residents to formulate what is expected, that is a set of predictable requests, neither controversial nor outrageous, but rather tame and placid thus conforming to the rhetoric of consultation? …”
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L’approche interactionniste pour l’analyse d’un projet d’agroforesterie villageoise sur le plateau des Batéké (République démocratique du Congo) by Camille Reyniers

“…This article deals with the setting up of a village agroforestry project for the integrated management of natural resources, in the hamlet of Duale Mitterrand (52 households) on the plateau Batéké (Democratic Republic of Congo). It is based on fieldwork conducted between February and May 2012 as part of the end-of-course dissertation study of Master of Science and Environmental Management at the Free University of Brussels (ULB). …”
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Positive vs. negative understanding of liberty: Political implications by Stojadinović Višnja

“…In this sense, the author will try showing the democratic concept of liberty is positive liberty, while the classical liberal understanding of liberty is negative. …”
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"He told me to hold my tongue" : de la violence physique à la subjectivation politique dans The History of Mary Prince by Frédéric Regard

“…The implicit polyphony of the History is its democratic signature; it also turns a simple testimony of inhuman treatment into a major literary artifact.…”
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Maastricht Overcome: An Evolving Disconnect Between the ECB’s Power and Independence by Anna-Lena Högenauer, Joana Mendes

“…Crucially, this evolution challenges the ECB’s high degree of independence, as decisions that are closely related to political debate also require stronger political (democratic) legitimacy and legal accountability.…”
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(Un)stable diffusions by Fenwick McKelvey, Joanna Redden, Jonathan Roberge, Luke Stark

“…Within this situation our contributions offer four different research paths: (1) situating the legacy media as an enduring process of legitimation; (2) looking at the ways that AI has a private life in public; (3) questioning the post-democratic future of public participation; and, (4) developing new prototypes of public participation through research creation. …”
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Punishment for crimes against the person in the Criminal Code of China by F.B. Muljukov, A.G. Ibragimov

“…The paper considers of the criminal law norms of the People’s Republic of China that regulate the responsibility for encroachment on the right of citizens to life, as well as their individual and democratic rights in comparison with similar norms of the criminal codes of other states. …”
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Democracy and Fake News in the Age of Cyberspace by Mariam Mohammed, Adem Bölükbaşı

“…It can be claimed that fake news is spreading much faster and more effectively in today's societies thanks to cyber space and it misleads many people. As a result, democratic processes such as elections and election campaigns are also adversely affected. …”
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The Social Construction of Transgenic Corn: Relevant Social Actors in Chihuahua by Marco Antonio Fernández Nava

“…In this sense, transgenic corn is an unfinished object that is affected by an onslaught of struggles, opinions, agreements, disagreements, designs and redefinitions of the relevant social actors. These groups, the Democratic Campesino Front, El Barzón, National Agro-dynamic and Regional Agricultural Union of Yellow Corn Producers (UNIPRO), demonstrate how technological development is a social process. …”
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On the Way to a Secularized Theology: Why Today’s Disapproval of an Atemporal God Is Gaining Momentum? by Vladimir K. Shokhin

“…The increasing popularity of theological temporalism is explained in terms of a scientistic attachment to evolutionism and associated urge to “democratize” a transcendent God. Some parallels from Continental “post-secular” theology, including the anthropocentric turn that replaces a theocentric vision of the world with a humanistic orientation, are also discussed.…”
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Identity Economics and the Creative Economy, Old and New by Herrmann-Pillath Carsten

“…This is mainly a move from an elitist and politically controlled system of the production of identities to a democratic and self-organized one, which is institutionally reflected in the increasing “marketization” of culture as a surface phenomenon. …”
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Meme-ing Electoral Participation by Benita Heiskanen

“…This article considers the phenomenon of meme-ing in relation to both the Republican and Democratic campaigns. In particular, it focuses on memes that called attention to the candidates’ contradictory or incongruous statements critiquing their policy positions. …”
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Restriction of constitutional rights and freedoms by Iraq's cabinet government in handling Covid-19 by Zahraa Abdulalhafudh Mohsin

“…This study investigates the constitutional legitimacy of the measures enacted by Tthe Iraqi government to prevent the COVID-19 spreading, which restricted the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Iraqi Constitution 2005. even though the epidemic is a health emergency, the House of Representatives has not declared an emergency state, as the Cabinet resorted to taking preventive measurement to curb the crisis spreading, that restricted constitutional freedoms and rights even though the Iraqi constitution explicitly states that the rights and freedoms cannot be restricted except by law or based on it,  however, this restriction was governed by administrative orders issued by a committee establish by council of ministers under  Diwani Order 55 of 2020, headed by the minister of health,  which  amended then to become headed by the prime minister, for that purpose we have followed the analytical approach to assess the decisions taken by this committee through interpreting constitutional and legal texts and examining many of their restrictive resolutions imposed for demonstrating its legitimacy or illegitimacy and through this analysis we concluded that the majority of its decision on rights and freedoms under the pretext to preventspread  of Covid-19 unconstitution even though the epidemi was serious it cannot be justified  for violating democratic values.…”
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Viral Justice: TikTok Activism, Misinformation, and the Fight for Social Change in Southeast Asia by Nuurrianti Jalli

“…Through a mixed-methods approach that includes qualitative content analysis, semi-structured interviews, systematic fact-checking, and digital trace data, the research explores how activists leverage TikTok’s unique features to promote social justice and mobilize political participation amid democratic backslidings. The findings reveal that activists skillfully adapt to TikTok’s attention economy, using strategies like trend-jacking and meme creation to reach broad audiences. …”
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Russian neocorporatism as antineocorporate: urgent management problems by V. V. Tyan

“…There is no clarity in the typological characteristic: democratic or bureaucratic? The author of the study considers Russian neocorporatism neotraditionalist. …”
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Bolivia at a Crossroads: Is Consolidation of a ‘Divided Society’ Feasible? by T. A. Vorotnikova

“…These include miscalculations of the government which has revealed general instability of the country’s political system and threatened to erode democratic institutions; changes in electoral behavior of the population; the increasing role of the armed forces. …”
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Continuation, imbrications et écarts : liens entre la défense des droits LGBTQI+ et la lutte contre le VIH/sida en Tunisie by Marta Luceño Moreno

“…Indeed, the context of democratic transition and the involvement of international donors who finance the LGBTQI+ cause, has allowed for greater identity affirmation. …”
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Généalogie d’une enquête sur les « étranger-e-s du dedans ». Entretien avec Eleni Varikas by Eleni Varikas, Isabelle Clair

“…Scientific, historical, political, and biographical reasons mix in the talk of a feminist who came from Greece in the 1970’s, strengthened by the experience of struggle against dictatorship and nourished by democratic ideals, as she divulges her reasons for embarking on an endless investigation of the outcast, the « stranger from within » who bumps into theinvisible wallsof "a world claiming to haveabolished the privilegesof birth"(Penser le sexe et le genre [Think sexand gender],2006).…”
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Coordinating Ombudsmen and the Judiciary? by Milan Remač

“… An ombudsman institution is one of the most rapidly developing institutions in modern democratic states. Ombudsmen can be characterised as individual and impartial investigators of administration and its conduct. …”
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