The history of Athenian democracy, now by Atack, C

A Participação Como Pressuposto da Democracia by Dejalma Cremonese

“…At last, the text points to the importance of the participation in the political and social problem, especially with the experience of the European movement called "Real Democracy Now".…”
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Deliberative Democracy in Multicultural Societies: The Challenges of Effectiveness, Legitimacy, and Equality by Andréa Braga de Araújo, Catarina Chaves Costa, Leonardo Barros Soares

“…Lowe-Walker (2018), Deliberative Democracy Now: LGBT Equality and the Emergence of Large-Scale Deliberative Systems by Edwina Barvosa (2018), and Deliberative Democracy, Political Legitimacy, and Self-determination in Multicultural Societies by Jorge M. …”
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A Spatial Analysis of the Voting Patterns in the South Korean General Elections of 2016 by Hyun-Chool Lee, Alexandre Repkine

“…Our finding of the older voters leaning towards the conservative edge of the political spectrum suggests that the “silver democracy” now actively discussed in the South Korean media is increasingly assuming more conservative traits.…”
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Social implications of using online alternative media towards participatory democracy in Malaysia by Kamaruddin, Azlina, Ghazali, Rahmat, Muda, Mariah

“…In this context, understanding the Internet should be in terms of the relationship between different actors to serve for participatory democracy.Now many types of horizontal dialogues are possible through email, chat rooms, discussion boards, usenets, real-time audio and video conferencing.Public feel disappointed since their opinions, needs, and consumptions were not well covered and reported through the mainstream media.Dissident voices become dominant group in order to voice out their views.This study explores the social implications of using online alternative media towards participatory democracy in Malaysia.The method employed for the collection of data is through phenomenological study where the data were collected using online asynchronous interview via emails. …”
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The role of intellectuals in times of pandemic: Understanding Noam Chomsky's political engagement by Julio Antonio Bonatti Santos

“…From that, we chose our corpus of analysis, selected from Noam Chomsky’s innumerous speeches to a left-wing or clearly progressive press during the first months of Covid-19 pandemic in the form of interviews from March to June: an interview to Michael Brooks (2020), at the Jacobin Magazine (Brooks, M. 2020); an interview with his longtime interviewer, David Barsamian (2020), an Armenian-American journalist and political activist, published on the website Literary Hub; an interview with the British socialist newspaper Morning Star (2020); two interviews he gave to Amy Goodman (2020a, 2020b) for the American journal Democracy Now; an interview with the Croatian philosopher Srecko Horvat (2020), from which we will use only the parts of the transcript that we found published by Al Jazeera and not the video; an interview to the writer Chris Brooks to the magazine Labor Notes, channel for the proletarian movement; an interview to Cristina Magdaleno (2020) for the Euroactiv, a non-profit organization for democracy in European Union, as well as an interview Chomsky and Robert Pollin gave to C. …”
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