Contrary to the assumptions of pluralist theory, the article argues that the influence of interest groups declined as a result of political and economic liberalization. Political liberalization in Zambia has so far resulted in a proliferation of civic associations and a weakening of corporatist links ...
Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia ra·tion·al·ism (răsh′ə-nə-lĭz′əm) n. 1.Reliance on reason as the best guide for belief and action. 2.PhilosophyThe theory that the exercise of reason, rather than experience, authority, or spiritual revelation, provides the primary basis for ...
aThe dominant paradigm (3)Although the liberal pluralist paradigm argues that citizens are given equal opportunities to the media, the dominance paradigm notes that the media actually reproduces this relation of domination and subordination. e.g. 统治范例(3),虽然宽宏多元论者范例争辩说,公民被给机会均...
This article argues that the debate between pluralism and solidarism in English School theory has been cast in such a way as to hand the progressive cause to solidarism, taking for granted that moves towards the emergence of world society further a solidarist normative agenda. This article sug...
aThe dominant paradigm (3)Although the liberal pluralist paradigm argues that citizens are given equal opportunities to the media, the dominance paradigm notes that the media actually reproduces this relation of domination and subordination. e.g. 统治范例(3),虽然宽宏多元论者范例争辩说,公民被给机会均...
On the other side, there is thepluralist stancewhich argues that everything in the world has an autonomous existence that we can't eliminate. While there might be a sense in which chemical, biological or economic entities are governed by physical laws, these entities are not mere aggregations ...
and from religious role models to queer theory. ‘Masculinity’ as a concept and configuration of practices is at the same time undergoing another round of crisis and change, split along axes of class, nation, racialisation, sexuality, gender identity and culture, torn between projects of restora...
as we can see by looking at the dialectic of Russell’s argument.Having attacked the coherence theory in Part I, he argues in Part IIagainst a certain view of relations,namely “that relations are alwaysgrounded in the nature of their terms” (28), and alleges that this view is “anaxi...
aThis approach argues that in liberal democracies or pluralist societies, the media supplies the citizenry with relevant information and facilitates discussions so that decision making is a result of rational debate . 这种方法争辩说,在宽宏民主或多元论者社会,媒介全体公民把相关信息供给并且促进讨论,以便决...
(2023) align this aspect with the status quo bias theory (Samuelson and Zeckhauser1988), positing that individuals, when faced with the prospect of using a new technology, initially harbor uncertainty about the outcomes and resist change due to a perceived potential loss outweighing potential gain...