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From:The Hedgehog Review (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIT SEEMS ALMOST INEVITABLE THAT OLIVIER Zunz would have come to the subject of his new and widely hailed biography, The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville. A native of France who pursued his...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6218)Things don't usually fall apart completely in Britain and the centre holds. In the mid-seventeenth century, however, civil war raged across the islands. Military rule in England was followed by the conquest of Ireland...
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From:The Journal of Values-Based Leadership (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGuided by Jefferson's words--"We hold these truths to be self-evident..."--the development of a moral democracy in America was undertaken amidst war and colonial disagreement. This was just the beginning as America's...
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From:Journal of Global South Studies (Vol. 39, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedNgwane, Trevor. Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements. London: Pluto Press, 2021. Can people who live in shacks teach us about democracy? Trevor Ngwane begins this book with the following...
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From:School Librarian (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe key aim of citizenship education is to develop informed, active citizens who are ready and equipped to participate in democratic society. The opening sentences of the current national curriculum set out the purpose...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6221)THE MAKING OF OUR URBAN LANDSCAPE GEOFFREY TYACK 384pp. Oxford University Press. 25 [pounds sterling]. EARTHOPOLIS A biography of our urban planet CARL H. NIGHTINGALE 814pp. Cambridge University Press. 25...
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From:The Hedgehog Review (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAt a recent international conference on myth and politics, the first speaker raised a perennial question: "Should we de-mythologize politics?" (1) The answer for many, particularly those who affirm democratic values, has...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6220)CONSPIRACY AT CATO STREET A tale of liberty and revolution in Regency London VIC GATRELL 474pp. Cambridge University Press. 25 [pounds sterling] (US $34.99). "A few thousands of hearty determined fellows well...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 48, Issue 2)Ploughshares is pleased to present Christie Hodgen with the fourth annual Ashley Leigh Bourne Prize for Fiction for her short story "Bush v. Gore," which appeared in the Fall 2021 issue, edited by Editor-in-chief Ladette...
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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 323)NEVER SPEAK TO STRANGERS: AND OTHER WRITING FROM RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION by David Satter IBIDEM, 692 PAGES, $34 IN THIS UNEXPECTEDLY timely collection of essays, the journalist David Satter recalls an adventure...
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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 323)That we should grieve for the people of Ukraine is unquestionable. The boot of their powerful Russian neighbor is on their necks. That we should condemn Moscow's aggression while cheering the courage of Ukrainian...
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From:The Hedgehog Review (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.... The past is never dead. It's not even past.... So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.... The angel of history,......
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIn the past few decades, constitution-making processes have shifted from being undertakings performed by elites and closed off from the public to ones incorporating democratic mechanisms. Little is known, however, about...
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From:Demokratizatsiya (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTo circumvent the uncertainty of (semi-) competitive elections, autocrats can choose from a broad menu of manipulation. To claim legitimacy through elections, these manipulations are hidden and constantly modernized....
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 46, Issue 2)DRC resides at the nexus of the great power competition and the climate crisis. Can the U.S. help secure its future while supporting democratic reforms that help the Congolese people? Though few may realize it, the...
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From:Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy (Vol. 21, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSometimes we vote on the issues. Consider a voter who detests gun control. They might, on this basis, vote Republican. Their opposition to gun control drives their vote choice. They vote Republican because they share the...
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From:The Hedgehog Review (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIT IS HARD NOT TO THINK THAT THE WORLD has come to a critical juncture, a point of possibly catastrophic collapse. Multiple simultaneous crises--many of epic proportions--raise doubts that liberal democracies can govern...
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From:Urban Planning (Vol. 7, Issue 2S1) Peer-ReviewedThe article examines the results of a "citizen consultation" organised by local public officials through a questionnaire-based consultation approach to the management of urban and peri-urban forests. The study shows how...
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From:Contemporary Southeast Asia (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines a series of cyber terror attacks in 2019 on academics who protested the bill revising Law No. 30/2002, also known as the Corruption Eradication Commission (Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi, or KPK) Law....
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedOne of the core tenets of a well-functioning representative democracy is that the people who vote to elect government officials are representative of the public. Here we reinforce the idea that reality is far from this...