Aboriginal participation in Canadian hydroelectric development: political economy and public policy by Mitja Durnik

“…Our research is oriented towards comparing different stages of hydroelectric development in terms of aboriginal participation, and we will try to show why modern practices of deliberative democracy are (or maybe why they are not) different than before.…”
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Conflict, Dialogue and Justice: Exploring Global Citizenship Education as a Generative Social Justice Project by Lynette Shultz

“…Drawing on theoretical understandings of deliberative democracy as a challenge to conventional models of liberal democracy, and the praxis of conflict transformation, this article frames processes of social justice as a platform for citizenship education. …”
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Deepening Democracy Through Public Deliberation? Reflections from the Province Huanta in the Peruvian Andes by Maria-Therese Gustafsson

“…Leonardo Avritzer, one of the most optimistic proponents of deliberative democracy, states that new democratic practices will be transferred from the societal level to political society in ‘deliberative public space’, thus consolidating democracy. …”
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Outline for building a modern democracy in Colombia by Enrique Ferrer Corredor

“…Furthermore, from the public opinion and its potentialities, the democratic consolidation can be evaluated as evidencing that social institutions work as a group on seeking freedom in the realms of efficiency, justice, and social harmony; within the meaning of a radical-deliberative democracy and following Amartya Sen in the pursuance of development as freedom. …”
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Political consequences of participative practices in an urban context : two case studies in Rome by Ernesto d’Albergo, Giulio Moini

“…A final question concerns two alternative scenarios : practices of deliberative democracy may either be penned into policy niches, thus not affecting major decisions within the urban context, or be an ingredient of policies for common goods, alternative to the neo-liberal policies that have been prevailing in many cities’ agendas over the last 20 years.…”
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Exploring the interplay between urban governance and smart services codesign by Grazia Concilio, Alessandro Deserti, Francesca Rizzo

“…The large spreading of e-democracy and e-participatory tools and environments showed, and is still showing, that technologies offer new direction for dealing with the challenge of scaling the deliberative democracy perspective up to the urban governance scale. …”
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Reassessing the Rhetoric Revival in Political Theory: Cicero, Eloquence, and the Best Form of Life by Giuseppe Ballacci

“…It argues that, even though the theorists of the ‘rhetoric revival’ have given an important contribution to question the rationalist assumptions of the prevalent theories of deliberative democracy, they have fallen short of acknowledging the broader scope of Cicero’s conception of eloquence, which considers it not only a civic art of public discourse, but also the concrete manifestation of what he considers the best form of life: the union of the 'vita activa' and the 'vita contemplativa'. …”
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The ward sabha in Bangladesh – lessons from Kerala and West Bengal by Tofail Ahmed

“…The amendment may also broaden the scope and activity of the ward sabha as a forum for promoting deliberative democracy. However, consideration should be given to reducing the role of the ward sabha as an executive agency as it is insufficiently resourced to perform the executive functions outlined in the 2009 Act; rather the immense potential of the ward sabha as a forum for wider deliberation across all the elected bodies should be exploited.…”
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Demokrati- og medborgerskabsbegreber i grundskolens samfundsfag i Danmark, Norge, Sverige og Tyskland by Anders Stig Christensen

“…This article takes as its point of departure a discussion of concepts of democracy/citizenship including liberal, communitarian, republican and deliberative democracy. Through an analysis of curricula from social science education or citizenship education in lower secondary schools in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and politische Bildung (political education) in Berlin-Brandenburg, it is discussed which concepts of citizenship prevail in these, and, in the case of Denmark and Sweden, how these have developed in the last 40 years. …”
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Evaluasi Proses Amendemen Undang-Undang Dasar Tahun 1945: Perspektif Habermasian by Costantinus Fatlolon

“…The remedy to this problem is for the MPR to institutionalize ideal conditions of deliberative democracy that grant publicity, transparency, civic participation, and rational communication between the executive body and citizens in every phase of the constitutional amendment process.…”
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Post-Modern Narratives and the Paradigm of Efficiency: participatory democracy on the yellow brick road by Cynara Monteiro Mariano, Isabelly Cysne Augusto Maia

“…Therefore, the innovation of the text lies in establishing the systematization and correlation between postmodernity, efficiency and deliberative democracy.…”
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Participarea civică. Implicații ale reformei locului de muncă by Cosmin MARIAN

“…As part of a broader effort to renew the foundations of democracy, social theorists have focused increasing attention on civil society, social capital and deliberative democracy. In this essay, I examine some of these issues in the context of participatory democratic inovation as a process of social learning and capacity bulding in the 1990s in Romania. …”
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Towards a framework approach for assessing legitimacy: case study analysis of the UNSC by Huan, Amanda Su Minn

“…The proposed framework comprises five criteria (i.e. goals and values, membership, deliberative democracy, procedural justice, and accountability) across three categories of legitimacy (i.e. input-, throughput-, output-oriented legitimacy). …”
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Using a nominal group technique to approach consensus on a resilience intervention for smoking cessation in a lower socioeconomic population by George Tsourtos, Kristen Foley, Paul Ward, Emma Miller, Carlene Wilson, Christopher Barton, Sharon Lawn

“…Conclusions This research applied principles from deliberative democracy in order to illuminate lay knowledge regarding an appropriate and acceptable smoking cessation resilience program for a lower SES population. …”
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The debate about decentralization in the Spanish Parliament. What does affect the deliberative quality of the discourses? by Hugo Marcos-Marné

“…This article aims at continuing the tradition of empirical studies of deliberative democracy. With this purpose, it applies the Discourse Quality Index (DQI) developed by Steiner et al (2004) to the analysis of the <em>Debate sobre el Estado de la Nación</em> in the Spanish Parliament. …”
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Dialogical Democracy and the Problem of Deep Politics by Tutui Viorel

“…I will argue that his attempt to offer an epistemic justification to deliberative democracy is vulnerable to the same kind of objections he raises against the alternative deliberative models of democracy and that an aggregative conception is preferable.…”
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Religion and Politics in the Post-Soviet Russia (Example of Islam) by Yuriy M. Pochta

“…Habermas’ theory of deliberative democracy, the concepts of post-secular society and federalism, as well as the civilizational approach are used as the methodological base of the research. …”
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Fairness through regulation? Reflections on a cosmopolitan approach to global finance by Marta Božina Beroš, Marin Beroš

“…Many envisage future improvements of global financial governance by evoking deliberative democracy, political equality and cosmopolitanism. …”
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Provocative Talk in Local American Civic Life by Samuel McCormick

“…Many Americans are as enthusiastic about the idea of deliberative democracy as they are appalled by its actual practice, especially when it comes to local forums of civic life. …”
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O redesenho do programa Cultura Viva: performance de uma democracia deliberativa? by Paula Ziviani

“…So, we call upon the concept of public sphere and approaches of deliberative democracy, since it starts from the assumption that the seminar redesign is characterized as a public sphere in the institutionalization process, where negotiations are mediated between different civil society actors.…”
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