Journal•ISSN: 0258-9346
Politikon
Taylor & Francis
About: Politikon is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Democracy. It has an ISSN identifier of 0258-9346. Over the lifetime, 500 publications have been published receiving 5901 citations.
Topics: Politics, Democracy, Government, Human rights, Democratization
Papers published on a yearly basis
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TL;DR: Mark Duffield's second edition of Global Governance and the New Wars as mentioned in this paper offers an important and biting critique of how different actors within the security and development discourse have adapted to the new threats.
Abstract: Mark Duffield's second edition of ‘Global Governance and the New Wars’ offers an important and biting critique of how different actors within the security and development discourse have adapted to
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TL;DR: The authors make a distinction between emerging and traditional middle powers as a means to giving the concept of a middle power greater analytical clarity, and distinguish between the two in terms of their mutually-influencing constitutive and behavioural differences.
Abstract: This article seeks to develop a distinction between emerging and traditional middle powers as a means to giving the concept of a middle power greater analytical clarity All middle powers display foreign policy behaviour that stabilises and legitimises the global order, typically through multilateral and cooperative initiatives However, emerging and traditional middle powers can be distinguished in terms of their mutually-influencing constitutive and behavioural differences Constitutively, traditional middle powers are wealthy, stable, egalitarian, social democratic and not regionally influential Behaviourally, they exhibit a weak and ambivalent regional orientation, construct ing identities distinct from powerful states in their regions and offer appeasing concessions to pressures for global reform Emerging middle powers by contrast are semi-peripheral, materially inegalitarian and recently democratised states that demonstrate much regional influence and self-association Behaviourally, they opt for
274 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of 3,700 South Africans in 2001 showed that the truth as promulgated by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is fairly widely accepted by South Africans, of all races.
Abstract: Throughout the world, truth commissions have been (and are being) constructed under the hope that discovering the ‘truth’ about a country's past conflicts will somehow contribute to ‘reconciliation’ Most of such efforts point to South Africa's truth and reconciliation process as an exemplar of the powerful influence of truth finding But has truth actually contributed to reconciliation in South Africa? At present, no‐one can answer this question since no rigorous and systematic assessment of the success of the truth and reconciliation process has ever been conducted This paper directly investigates the hypothesis that truth leads to reconciliation Based on a survey of 3,700 South Africans in 2001, it begins by giving both ‘truth’ and ‘reconciliation’ clear conceptual and operational meaning Empirical evidence, is then given, that the ‘truth’ as promulgated by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is fairly widely accepted by South Africans, of all races; that at least some degree of reconcilia
223 citations
TL;DR: The authors explored the realm of symbolic politics through a comparative analysis of three disparate mega-event hosts which will take the world stage in 2010: South Africa (the FIFA World Cup), Delhi/India (the Commonwealth Games), and Vancouver/Canada (the Winter Olympics).
Abstract: For ambitious civic and national boosts sport mega-events provide unique opportunities for the pursuit of symbolic politics—a chance to signal important changes of direction, reframe dominant narratives about the host, and/or reinforce key messages of change. These signals or narratives are critical vehicles of legitimation, with both narrowly instrumental objectives and more expansive purposes related to the mobilisation of societal support for certain dominant ‘ideas of the state’. This paper explores the realm of symbolic politics through a comparative analysis of three disparate mega-event hosts which will take the world stage in 2010: South Africa (the FIFA World Cup), Delhi/India (the Commonwealth Games), and Vancouver/Canada (the Winter Olympics). The paper argues that despite important differences in the circumstances of these hosts and the events they are to mount, there are some key commonalities in the narratives they seek to deploy and the subtexts they embody. These commonalities rev...
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TL;DR: Amaney A. Jamal as mentioned in this paper, 2007) Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the Arab World (Princeton University Press) ISBN 10 0691 12727 1
Abstract: Amaney A. Jamal (2007) Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the Arab World (Princeton University Press) ISBN 10 0691 12727 1 Jamal's work challenges the proposit...
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