Given this, we believe disclosures, as an established practice within liberal democracies, can and will help to produce what Mouffe calls a “discursive ‘exterior’”– a way of providing a language or discourse to interior, hidden practices. In essence, Mouffe is advocating for discursively ...
Central to the vision of a peaceful democratic world bas been the proposition that liberal democracies do not fight each other; that they may and frequently do get into fights with illiberal states, but not with other countries that a re basically similar in their political systems. The proposit...
Crucially, in democracies, political measures of both types require public support. Otherwise, it is unlikely for them to be enacted, or they will even provoke public backlash3. Climate change, according to the United Nations, is “the defining crisis of our time”4. At the same time, some...
Adjusting employment protection legislation to the economic cycle: do transition countries differ from mature democracies?Employment protection legislationlabour market institutionspost-socialist countriestransition countrieseconomic cyclebusiness cycleAlthough the transition period for post-socialist countries began ...
Over 50% of the Oregon Counties want to separate from the Portland/Salem/Eugene Metro. And there are pockets inside there that want out too. Oregon went Biden in 2020. Majority of the Oregon counties did not. What I want to see is forcing States to be republics not pure democracies. ...
What are four ways in which individuals in democracies can help to influence environmental policy? Describe one way in which humans have used their knowledge of natural biodegradation processes to reduce waste or clean up environmental damage. ...
As Renwick and Pilet (2016:236–237) point out, the Swedish reform of 2010 did not actually increase preference voting at the level of the entire electorate, which makes it stand out from similar cases in four other long-standing democracies (Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway). While the...
Ways of reading on a train or in bed are likely to differ considerably from reading in a seminar room. [B] Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading, our gender ethnicity, age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretations but at...
Firstly, that Brexiteers do not even agree with each other about what Brexit means. Secondly, the only thing most Leavers care about is immigration. And not of white Christian Europeans. NickC January 18, 2019 Andy, The purpose of Remain Ministers emerging from their Westminster Remain bubble...
Moreover, when it comes to contentious collective action, it is possible to explicitly distinguish religious groups from other social groups in the first place, given that many voluntary associations and political organizations have either a religious component or a deep root in religious movements?