Sovereignty of natural resources and accountability. The case of the Bolivian hydrocarbon policy, 2006-2018 by César Augusto Camacho-Soliz

“…This research seeks to understand the formulation and implementation of specific types of extractivist public policies in democratic contexts. The objective is to highlight how the sovereign recovery of natural resources generates public responsibility deficits. …”
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NIGERIAN CHRISTIANITY AND POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT: A BALANCE OF ACTIVITY IN POLITICAL TERRAIN by ADEBAYO OLUWASEGUN BOLARINWA, ADEKOYA SAMUEL OLAMIDE, ADEDIRAN IDOWU SEGUN

“…Much more specifically, the act of leadership in a democratic society like Nigeria is one that is actively deducted from the political participation and involvement of people, since politicians eventually emerges as leaders of the people in the country just like it is obtainable in other countries. …”
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Kwestia ruska w obliczu powstania styczniowego z perspektywy „Gazety Narodowej” i „Słowa” by Adam Świątek

“…The article analyzes the Polish texts published in Lviv’s democratic daily newspaper Gazeta Narodowa and the Ruthenian, russophilic newspaper Slovo. …”
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The role of foreign direct investment by multinational corporations in Africa by Asnake Anteneh Chanie

“…This article focuses on two multinational enterprises from Sweden and China that have been operating in South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo, respectively, to determine whether there is a link between their investment and the security crises in both countries. …”
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The Patriarchal Election Crisis At The Armenian Patriarchate Of Istanbul: The Repercussion of The Crisis In The American Consular Reports And Turkish Press (1944-1950) by Hikmet, Öksüz

“…As this period coincided with the beginnings of the Cold War, the Turkish government strove to solve the interim crisis within its boundaries, a process which started with the Prime Minister Şemsettin Günaydın in 1949 and was finalized in the first months of the Democrat Party government. Finally, in December 1950, an unexpected candidate from South America, Karekin I Khachadourian, who was born in Trabzon, was elected as the 112th Archbishop of İstanbul. …”
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The EU global regulatory state and the search for transnational democracy – reflections from the edges of Europe by Maria Weimer

“…Subsequently, I delve into Joerges’s theory of conflicts-law-constitutionalism, examining its strengths and weaknesses, as well as its relevance for understanding the new geopolitical turn in EU external regulation and its implications for democratic constitutionalism.…”
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The Conspiracist Strategy: Lessons from American Alternative Health Promotions by Gad Yair

“…They succeed doing so because those conspiracist strategies and the suspicious habitus they manipulate spring from the same democratic source.…”
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« Enlever les casquettes politiques ». Rhétorique gestionnaire et euphémisation du politique chez les élus locaux du Front des forces socialistes algérien by Layla Baamara

“…While the FFS deputies are opposed to the political action of the government and the parliamentary majority, local elected officials of the FFS cooperate with members of partisan organizations of this majority, mainly the National Liberation Front (RND) and the National Democratic Congregation (RND), which are the traditional targets of the party. …”
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The indifference towards democracy in Latin America by Alejandro Monsivais-Carrillo

“…This study argues that a specific expression of citizens’ estrangement from democracy is political indifference: the opinion that living in a democratic or an authoritarian regime makes no difference. …”
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Protocol for public opinion survey, Ecuador 2025 by Javier Chiliquinga-Amaya, Marco Faytong-Haro, Romina Sánchez, Michela Andrade, Efraín Vásquez, Patricio Alvarez-Muñoz

“…This study emphasizes the importance of balancing security needs with democratic principles, contributing to a more informed and strategic approach to governance in Ecuador.…”
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Activation of a child’s subjectivity in the upbringing space of free self-determination on the basis of pedagogy of freedom by Alla Rastrygina

“… The article updates the problem of reconstruction of the modern upbringing process, the leading idea of which is the targeting of its goals, content, forms and methods at self-development of a child and the becoming of a child’s subjectivity as an active, purposeful, initiative, creative and constructive position in his or her own livelihoods on the basis of humanistic values of a democratic society. The conceptual provisions of the author’s concept of freedom pedagogy have become the starting point in solving the mentioned problem. …”
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Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas by Víctor Sierra Matute

“…This article explores Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s (1648–1695) strategic poetic approach, aimed at democratizing writing and knowledge among women during her period. …”
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Foreign Policy Change Under Authoritarian Leaders: Analysis of Uzbekistan’s Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era by Feruza Madaminova

“…However, decentralized decision-making is more relevant to democratic regimes than authoritarian regimes. Despite the abundance of case studies on foreign policy making in nondemocracies, advancements in the conceptual understanding of foreign policy change in authoritarian regimes are still needed. …”
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Legislation on direct democracy in modern Vietnam by T. T. Thoa

“…The development of direct democracy is seen as a mean of consolidating modern democracy. Therefore, most democratic countries in the world have been making efforts to build appropriate mechanisms to promote the positive effects of this form of democracy, including Vietnam. …”
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Social movement as a form of online political participation in social media by Nur Azizah

“…The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of social media activists in mobilizing public participation with social movements and how the digital instrument Twitter can enhance democratic activities in Indonesia. Method used in this paper is literature review. …”
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Ways of Aesthetically Integrating Conservation Theory in an Era of Neoliberal Illusions and Post-Colonial Migration by Hiltrud Schinzel

“…The concept of "care" is examined as a potential approach to refocus conservation on cultural beneficiaries and their changing needs, while also considering both the material and conceptual dimensions of artworks.The article traces the historical impact of 19th-century industrialization, which democratized access to art and transformed conservation practices, but also led to increased commodification. …”
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TOWARDS ANOTHER COSMOPOLITANISM: TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICA by Denise Vitale, Renata Nagamine

“…This article is based on Seyla Benhabib’s cosmopolitanism approach, particularly on her conception of democratic iteractions with the aim to argue that, by using the human rights language in order to translate global norms into local contexts, Indigenous women have become mediators between the local, national and global levels. …”
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"CYCLIST ON THE MARSH": LESSONS AND PROSPECTS OF THE LAST EU ENLARGEMENT by A. I. Tevdoy-Bourmouli

“…Specific historic experience of the applicants pre-determined a considerable specialty of west-European fashioned democratic regimes in those countries, weakness of consensus and tolerance culture which has already rooted itself in the West-European society, and which has to a considerable degree secured stable development of Western Europe over the last decades. …”
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SPECIFICITIES IN THE APPLICATION OF EU RIGHTS by Laze Jakimoski

“…The issue of compensation for damages in the EU arose alongside efforts to address the democratic deficit and institutionalize the EC/EU, emphasizing protecting individuals’ subjective rights before national courts. …”
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Ski resorts in crisis and territorial construction in French Catalonia by Vincent Vlès

“…In the 11 Pyrenean ski resorts of French Catalonia, the different types of governance often remain narrowly delimited and compartmentalised, and inter-municipal cooperation takes place without any real democratic discussion with the resident population. …”
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