Search Results - "deliberative democracy"

The paper advances three groups of interrelated claims. First, a fundamental deficit of democratic practice in contemporary Nigeria is that electoral choices/candidates are largely disconnected from the spirit of vibrant deliberation/consideration by the Nigerian demos. Second, candidates that emer...

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<span>The gap between elected authorities and citizens is widening in many democracies due to declining political engagement. This article examines wheth­er participatory budgeting (PB) is linked to voter turnout in Romania. As a widely used deliberative mechanism in public administration, PB’...

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The main objective of this paper is to analyse the necessity of institutionalizing deliberative democracy processes in the framework of EU democracies. The rationale behind this paper comes from the fact that governments have been experimenting with innovative practices in the field of deliberative...

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The claim that we have duties to future generations has become omnipresent in environmental discourse. Yet we risk underestimating the grave ethical challenge presented by such moral claims if we ignore the works of Hans Jonas. His influence has been limited, however, by his debateable political and...

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Abstract This article aims to uncover the pathology in public participation practices using Habermas's concept of deliberative democracy as well as examine the rationality of the actors involved in public participation activities in environmental affairs. Next, an answer will be given on ho...

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The subject of this research is the analysis of the communication of the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina that use social media platforms, which would enable them to disseminate information and collaborate with citizens, but also as a public space for dialogue between citizens on the way to de...

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The core of the contract between economic and monetary union is set in not so much the formally legal, if economically irrational and practically contentious, divide of the Treaties, but rather, the rules for governing the right balance of EMU are found in its economic governance framework, set up t...

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The subject. The article discusses the scientific foundations of the cult of a written constitution, the relationship between the principles of the supremacy of the constitution and fidelity to the constitution, on the one hand, and the forms and methods of constitutional changes in modern democrati...

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