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Counter-Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distrust
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In this article, the authors present an overview of the modern mixed regime with respect to the sense of powerlessness and symbols of depoliticization, and the preference for judgement.Abstract:
Preface Introduction Part I. Overseeing Democracy: 1. Vigilance, denunciation, evaluation 2. The overseers 3. The thread of history 4. Legitimacy conflicts Part II. The Sovereignty of Prevention: 5. From the right of resistance to complex sovereignty 6. Self-critical democracies 7. Negative politics Part III. The People as Judge: 8. Historical references 9. Almost legislators 10. The preference for judgement Part IV. Unpolitical Democracy: 11. The sense of powerlessness and symbols of depoliticization 12. The populist temptation 13. Lessons of unpolitical economy 14. Conclusion: the modern mixed regime.read more
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Deliberative Students, Overburdened Teachers, and Academic Policy Analysts : How Can Policy Analysis Contribute to Citizenship Education?
Noritada Matsuda,憲忠 松田 +1 more
TL;DR: Matsuda et al. as discussed by the authors explored a way to provide citizenship education at school in Japan, through identifying one of the critical citizen capabilities for political participation today and taking into consideration resource constraints on teachers in Japan.
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Social networking sites: (Un)trustworthy news sources?
Jelena Jurišić,Ivana Šipić +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a content analysis of media reports in three Croatian daily newspapers and on three Croatian news portals on the 17-year-old Croatian girl's disappearance in June 2011, in which Croatian journalists used the Facebook page created by the missing girl's family as a source.
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Backlash Against Globalisation and the Shadow of Phobos
TL;DR: The authors investigates what has caused the surge of support for populism in the West, what the role of the default system of economic governance is in inspiring populist resentment, and what the identity crisis, stemming from hyperglobalisation, and wrecking the social order in Western societies has to do with fear, (un)fairness and the redistributive effects of economic globalisation.
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Politics vs. Antipolitics in the Mediatised Public Sphere: Traversing the Contested Boundary between the Civic and the Political in Bulgaria
TL;DR: A review of influential theoretical positions endeavouring to conceptualise the conditions and mechanisms through which civil society can become productively involved in the art world can be found in this paper, with a focus on the role of civil society in art.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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Exit, voice, and loyalty : responses to decline in firms, organizations, and states
TL;DR: Zimbardo et al. as discussed by the authors studied the effects of severity of initiation and high penalties for exiting from public goods (and evils) on consumer reactions to price rise and quality decline in the case of several connoisseur goods.
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The agenda-setting function of mass media
Maxwell McCombs,Donald L. Shaw +1 more
TL;DR: In choosing and displaying news, editors, newsroom staff, and broadcasters play an important part in shaping political reality as mentioned in this paper, and readers learn not only about a given issue, but also how much importance to attach to that issue from the amount of information in a news story and its position.
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Democracy in America
TL;DR: De Tocqueville examines the structures, institutions and operation of democracy, and shows how Europe can learn from American success and failures as mentioned in this paper, and also predicts that slavery will bring about the'most horrible of civil wars', foresees that the USA and Russia will be the Superpowers of the twentieth century, and is 150 years ahead of his time in his views on the position and importance of women.