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Venezuela: : What everyone needs to know.
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Constituents Before Assembly: Participation, Deliberation, and Representation in the Crafting of New Constitutions
TL;DR: This article found that the degree of citizen participation at the 'convening stage' of constitution-making has a strong effect on levels of democracy, and this finding defies the common theory that the level of democracy result from the content of constitutions, and instead lends support to 'deliberative' theories of democracy.
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Explaining democratic divergence : the impact of elite political culture and political institutions on the democratic performance of Colombia and Venezuela
Gómez Benavides,Juan Carlos +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the best explanation to be offered lies in combining, or merging, two important and contested theories; namely, institutional and political culture theories, which taken together will help explain democratic divergence.
Will Beauty Save the World? A historical context study of the Miss Venezuela pageant as a conceivable contributor to communication for development.
TL;DR: A qualitative study of the Miss Venezuela pageant is presented in this paper, where experts are given a platform to analyze the evolution of a beauty pageant from a nearly, nationalist device into a system grounded in the Millennium Development Goals and that aims to forge socially responsible beauty representatives that are competent enough to herald purposeful messages.
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Sociedades rentistas: Claves para entender la crisis venezolana
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a critical reexamination of this debate and introduce the "rentier society" concept, which includes social and sociocultural issues, to understand the particularities of natural resource dependent societies.
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Beyond a Pragmatic Account of the Aesthetic in Science Education
Maurizio Toscano,John Quay +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that a pragmatic account of science education and aesthetics remains vulnerable to a kind of instrumentalism that reduces the objects, practices and persons in science education to mere beings: the source and subject of a reductive objectification of experience.