I argue that while anti-democratic solutions rest ultimately on disputed notions of social efficiency and contradictory appeals to pluralism, ultra-democratic solutions are either likely to undermine political equality, or incapable of supporting the claims associated with the ideal of a networked polity...
“Unlike interstate conflict, which often mobilizes national unity and strengthens societal cohesiveness, violent conflict within a state weakens its social fabric. It divides the population by undermining interpersonal and communal trust, destroying the norms and values that underlie cooperation and collecti...
social policy. Runciman suggests that the seeds of the decline of the post-war consensus lay in the changing economic circumstances of the second half of the twentieth century, illustrating the interconnections of political philosophies and economic conditions. First, all forms of social services – ...
This study shows that social norms and ethical values play a non-negligible role in the functioning of the corporate governance regulation and in corporate culture in Sri Lanka. Similar content being viewed by others Corporate Governance: At the Crossroads? Chapter © 2018 Ethical Dimensions of...
In addition, prolonged wars have been known to disrupt families and social support networks and thus increase childhood adversity [1],[5]. More recently, some studies have explored the influence of childhood adversity and stressful war exposure on the mental health of children and adolescents ...
Media and Participation: A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle This is a theoretical monograph about ordinary people’s participation in the media. Carpentier is concerned with the different levels of participation fro... L Nyre - 《New Media & Society》 被引量: 10发表: 2012年 Political scie...
The process of transforming the past into heritage constitutes an ongoing dialogue among diverse social groups, all striving to reach a consensus regarding various notions of value. Instances of potential heritage sites situated in foreign territories, or so-called shared heritage [51], offer a ...
the promotion of an ever-growing "zone of democratic peace" the repeated employment of military power to ease humanitarian disasters the isolation and punishment of a handful of "rogue" states that allegedly threatened regional stability and American security; growing concerns about the vulnerabili...
Refashioning for Democracy| German Women Journalists in the Nazi and Post-war Press UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (CANADA) Doris Bergen BartonDeborahThis dissertation investigates how women journalists acted as professional functionaries in support of the National Socialist dictatorship, and later, a democratic ...
The study of women journalists further unravels the draw of National Socialism for those Germans the regime deemed politically, socially and racially acceptable: increased possibilities and social prestige.;The second contribution relates to the study of women in the professions, which has often been ...