Search Results - "democratization"

The character of conservation has changed since the idea of preserving the physical remnants of history became important. Principles derived from this beginning and later on form the basis of what conservation ethics intend today. These principles were never rigid though - yet when it comes to confl...

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Reflecting on Neoliberalism represents an essential challenge for contemporary societies. In this regard, one must consider Neoliberalism from a concrete standpoint, that is to say, from specific historical processes. There is a great diversity of neoliberal experiences in Latin America. This neolib...

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In the center of the Sino-Indian economical and strategical interests, western sanctions against the Burmese military junta appear ineffective. While the ONU makeefforts to establish a dialogue, the dictatorship seems to reinforce itself. Partly because of the divisions in the international scene, t...

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This text attempts to trace the evolution of the political and philosophical thought of Georg Lukács, after his magnum opus History and class consciousness, as well as the influence that historical events had on this evolution. Against the dominant consensus that dismisses Lukács’s late work as an...

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Democracy and democratization are a spectrum of universal values that describe a condition regarding community involvement in a country's government and political systems. One of the pillars that can be used as a measure of democracy and the democratization process is the presence of the role o...

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This paper aims to show how ethnic parties can become influential actors in the process of Europeanization of post-Communist countries, by conducting a case-study of Romania. We consider Europeanization of Romania as the dependent variable of the two hypotheses we put forward. First, we test if the...

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<p>This paper strives to critically discuss the role that NGOs1 played in the democratization process of the Romanian society after the changes from 1990. In the transition process from a dictatorial system to a democratic one, NGOs functioning is absolutely necessary. There is a variety of wa...

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Main approaches to the studies of internal and external causes of colour revolutions in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and the Ukraine are reviewed. The article considers colour revolutions in the context of the fourth wave of democratization and concludes that colour revolutions encouraged the development of...

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Objectives: The European Union regularly publishes reports on corruption as part of its Eurobarometer surveys. These report on the opinions of European citizens regarding corruption and the presence of corruption they perceive. Based on survey data from 2008-2022, this study examines the perception...

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The COVID-19 pandemic and recent viral outbreaks have highlighted the need for viral diagnostics that balance accuracy with accessibility. While traditional laboratory methods remain essential, point-of-care solutions are critical for decentralized testing at the population level. However, a gap per...

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Global security concerns have impacted both domestic and foreign policies of international actors. A regional geopolitical crisis after 2022 has certainly impacted the relations between Kazakhstan and its external partners. This research aims to explore how the regional geopolitical turbulence shape...

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The author of the article analyzes the role of ideology in the modern world, underpinning his theses by historical examples, as well as posits the existence of the powerful Western ideology of “democracy”, which is transforming into international ideocratic system infl uencing all facets of human li...

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Neoconservatives had always been passionate defenders of American liberal democracy, but their relation to the principle has changed through phases. Basically, Neoconservatives’ changing positions to the principle has moved from just an attachment to a belief to the degree that they had called to i...

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Varieties of modern nondemocratic electoral political regimes is determined by institutional, structural, actor-oriented (procedural) differences between «the new autocracies». The trajectories of political transformation and regime changes in these hybrids depend largely on the specifi c political...

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The creation and changing of alphabets, as shown by their history, occurs due to the development needs of human communities, united by one language in certain public national entities. The alphabets as systems of different letters denote the system of phonemes as basic units or atoms of a particular...

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In the multiethnic polity of Ethiopia, the practical realization of federalism in Ethiopia has been characterized by ethnic conflicts, manufacturing of difference and the abandoning of the grand narrative of Ethiopian unity. In this paper, using the notion of a public sphere as a space for public di...

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The paper presents a socio-political analysis of the complex process of democratization in the Republic of Serbia, which had its ups and downs in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Analyzing some of the failures of the democratic forces, which enabled the unexpectedly quick return of autocratic...

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This article sets out to rethink the relation between mobilisation and democratisation processes in Spain since the inception of the 15M movement. More specifically, we propose to analyse: 1) the origin of the movement, sparked by the social consequences of the economic crisis and the erosion of the...

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Most current studies on the democratic or de-democratic changes in Europe have concentrated so far on the national level, while they are also important at the local and regional levels. The article is aimed at investigating: 1) changes going in either democratic or autocratic direction w...

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This thesis analyzes the relationship between politics and violence in democracy and contrast to the particular uses and meanings of institutional violence present in the political practices of a political regime: the Juarismo in Santiago del Estero between 1995 and 2004. We argue that the functioni...

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