HOW IS PARTICIPATORY PLANNING PERCEIVED WITHIN REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM?: A SWEDISH CASE OF ULLERÅKER REGION by Pınar Akarçay

“…However, the decision-making system in Sweden is built on representative democracy based on top-down policy-making processes and vertical relations. …”
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BEYOND ONE PARTY STATE DOMINANCE: A REVIEW OF RECURRENT ISSUES IN NIGERIA’S FOURTH REPUBLIC by IDREES MAHMUD GANA

“…While Nigeria restored multiparty democracy in the 1990s, genuine democratic consolidation has been hampered by entrenched power dynamics, patronage networks, and a lack of political variety. …”
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Demokracja jako praktyka codziennego życia w przedszkolu. Z doświadczeń nauczycielek by Katarzyna Gawlicz

“…The aim of this article is to explore the practical meaning of John Dewey’s claim that democracy has to be continuously recreated, by applying it to the preschool context. …”
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CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND PECULIARITGIES OF THE 1987 CONSTITUTION by A. N. Pankov

“…The question of the national state of one of the countries in South-East Asia is also analyzed which is of considerable scientific interest in terms of the perception of the Western model of democracy and attempts at planting on alien for these models of socio-economic and political framework. …”
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DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES AND THE ROLES OF TRADITIONAL POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN PROMOTING PEACE AND SECURITY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF GOMBE STATE. by AHMED MUSA, BASHIR ABDULLAHI, MOHAMMED AUWAL, UMAR MUHAMMAD JUNGUDO

“… The adoption of Western Democracy after independence has come with a lot of changes to the hitherto roles and powers of traditional political institutions of building peace and security generally inNorthern Nigeria and Gombe in particular. …”
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European Trust Crisis? by Gunther Tichy

“…Due to the fact that almost all member countries manifest a relatively high trust in the EU and a strong resolve to remain, these problems are unlikely to put European democracy at risk.…”
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La démocratie à l’école : quels savoirs, quelles valeurs pour quelle éducation ? by Céline Chauvigné

“…From the example of democracy at school, we will question here the training of pupil-citizen in school. …”
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Entre memoria y política: las historietas de Felipe Hernández Cava sobre la España del siglo xx (1973-1996) by Eduardo Hernández Cano

“…The comic works of Felipe Hernández Cava developed during the first decades of the new Spanish democracy constitutes one of the most coherent intellectual interventions on the role of memory in society and its political function. …”
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ABD’de Yükselen Popülist Dalga ve Trumpizm: Neoliberal Küreselleşme, Ekonomik Kriz, Siyasetin İşlevsizleşmesi ve Elitizme Karşı Bir Geri Tepki mi? by Ömer KURTBAĞ

“…Secondly, it contends that the current political landscape of neo-populism has manifested through the decay of a globalised American economy and its fundamental democracy and politics, which demonstrates the need for a major overhaul of the establishment. …”
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FROM AND AFTER 1990: ON LITHUANIAN MENTALITY AND MODERNIZATION by Marius Povilas Povilas Šaulauskas

“… The article is brought to bear on the political and cultural implications of radical communist modernization to the emerging democracy in post-revolutionary Lithuania as well as in postcommunist world on the whole. …”
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THE ROLES OF CIVIL SOCIETIES, GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION IN SUSTENANCE OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA by MAS’UD BELLO

“… The cardinal goal of democracy and democratization in different parts of the globe is to address the aspirations of the people in all the constituencies that made its political entity. …”
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The Vision of State and Social Life in the Normative Models of Environmental Awareness by Wojciech Trempała

“…Some are blatantly totalitarian, citing the impotence of democracy in the face of the looming ecological disaster. …”
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The Driving Forces of Diffusion in John R. Commons’ Institutional Economics by Kota Kitagawa

“…The novel principles discussed here are industrial democracy and safety. Second, the spiritual driving force unique to the era pushed ahead the evolution and diffusion of the institution. …”
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Emotional political advertising by Lynnette Fourie, Johannes Froneman

“…They did not harm the sustainability of the South African democracy as such, but they also did very little to promote it actively through their media advertisements. …”
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Les nouvelles formes de l’agir politique en perspective, France-Espagne by Serge Buj

“…The Spanish legislative elections of June 26 and December 20, 2015, as well as the French presidential election of May 2017, lead to a certain number of questions around the political phenomena that have been developing for several years in Spain and France or, more broadly, in constituted states whose sovereignty is based on so-called « universal » suffrage and the exercise of power on delegation democracy, parliamentary democracy. These phenomena are most often classified as NMS (new social movements) insofar as they reject in their discourse the party-form, both in terms of structure (centralized, hierarchical) and functioning, particularly in decision-making that goes beyond the local level. …”
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Political rhetoric used by the main parties in the final debate before the 1999 election by Paul Schutte

“…Rigorous inquiry towards political and moral truth should be at the core of the rhetoric of a democracy to improve the quality of debating and argumentation, in order to enrich democracy and to allow citizens to make well-informed decisions. …”
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Ideological objectives underpinning imbizo as a model of communication and governance by Jeffrey Mabelebele

“…It is argued that, at face value, imbizo is presented by government as a communication and governance model to deepen participatory democracy and public participation especially for the poor. …”
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Kenya’s 2022 General Elections and Nigerian’s 2023 General Elections: Any Lessons for Democratic Consolidation in Africa? by Godwin Ojanyi Agbiloko, Gerald Ifeanyi Okafor

“… Universally, election is the pillar of representative democracy. The health of any democracy, no matter its type or status, depends on a small technical detail: the conduct of elections. …”
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Integrating ethics and democratic principles in chemistry education: a case study by Stojanovska Marina

“…This study presents a novel approach to integrating ethics and core values into chemistry education through the module “Culture of Democracy Through the Didactics of Chemistry.” Developed as part of a broader initiative aimed at educating future teachers for democracy and human rights, this module explores the ethical dimensions of chemical knowledge and its social and environmental impact. …”
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The Chilean Model Confronting Expectations of Social Justice by L. V. Diyakova

“…The Chilean development model by objective parameters is a combination of a developed democracy, a targeted social policy, and an effective, competitive economy. …”
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