“Kosovo, My Land”? Slovenians, Albanians, and the Limits of Yugoslav Social Cohesion by Ramšak Jure

“…The author examines the Kosovo crisis in the context of the pluralisation and democratisation of Slovenian society in the 1980s and early 1990s. …”
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Chili 1977-2005 : pour une lecture historienne de la « longue transition à la démocratie de marché » by Stéphane Boisard

“…Two phases can be considered : a first phase of "institutional transition" from 1977 to 1998, and a second phase of "political transition" from 1998 to 2005, the latter leading to a real democratisation of society wiht a profound change in the 1980 Constitution but also to an ideological victory for the Chilean Right-wing insofar as its development model has not been questionned.…”
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Learner representatives in the governing bodies of secondary schools by J. Heystek

“… Learners in secondary schools are officially represented in school governing bodies (SGBs) in terms of the South African Schools Act, Act 84 of 1996. As part of the democratisation process in South African society, decision-making power has been decentralised to the local level, where all role-players in the school and the community can contribute to its management. …”
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Les relations de frontière entre le Portugal et l’Espagne au temps de la dictature dans l’œuvre d’Álvaro Cunhal/Manuel Tiago by João Carlos Vitorino Pereira

“…Cunhal was much in favour of frontier relations with the Spanish dictatorship but insisted more than ever on the necessary democratisation of Spain which would contribute to the consolidation of the young and fragile Portuguese democracy.…”
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Quality of Democracy and Game Theory by Rafael Plancarte Escobar

“…Three empirical problems that constitute challenges to the Mexican democratisation process are explored using game theory: a) the 2006 post-electoral context; b) the fight against drug cartels; and c) the collaboration between citizens and cartels. …”
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Building Social Capital Through Civic Education in VET: A Comparative Study of Finland and Luxembourg (1960–1970) by Matias Gardin

“…Then, this study analyses these aspects during 1960–1970, for the period is regarded as the starting point for democratisation of education after WWII. The justification for the countries is based on their differences. …”
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Taiwan’s security: Civilian control and external threat by Shang-Su Wu

“…AbstractSince the early 1990s, Taiwan has successfully transformed civilian control over its military with its democratisation. Despite some constraints, the elected administrations and congress have influenced on defence affairs, and each of the four elected administrations has demonstrated distinct characteristics. …”
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L’habitat participatif à la nantaise : dans la fabrique de l’action publique by Romain Perrier

“…This analysis demonstrates the rôle played by the political et economical interests of the actors involved in the definition of collaborative housing in this local arena. In Nantes, the “democratisation” of collaborative housing, visible in its integration in the social home ownership policy, depends more on the political strategy of the city councillor in charge of housing and on the economical interest of property developpers than on a ideological choice.…”
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Hacking the hackathon format to empower citizens in outsmarting “smart” cities by Tomasz Jaskiewicz, Ingrid Mulder, Nicola Morelli, Janice Pedersen

“…Consequently, the paper identifies and discusses three main factors required to sustain social learning ecosystems beyond hackathon events, and with the purpose of democratisation of smart city services. These factors include a) supporting individuals in obtaining specific expert knowledge and skills, b) nurturing data-literate activist communities of practice made up of citizens with complementary expert skillsets, and c) enabling members of these communities to generate varying fidelity prototypes of open-data services.…”
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Qualitative Methods in Pharmacy Research by Gisselle Gallego, Lotte Stig Nørgaard

“…Qualitative research can also be used for the “democratisation” of research methods through research that is inclusive, collaborative, and involves partnerships and co-production. …”
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A Critical Literature Review of New Party Success in Central and Eastern Europe by Yuxiang Lin

“…The paper then continues to reflect on `the agential approach and the party-specific factors such as partisanship and organization, stating that while the partisanship approach is not appropriate for the study of party politics in Central and Eastern Europe due to the region’s short time scope of merely three decades of democratisation so far, the choices and crafting of party leaders as well as the party organization development are crucial to spelling out why some new parties endure, while others are short-lived.…”
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Afrikaanse vryheidsliedjies as herkonstruksie van Afrikaneridentiteit: ’n ideologies-kritiese perspektief by L. Lambrechts, M. Viljoen

“…It illustrates that although more than a decade has passed since democratisation, identity politics are still an important South African topic and renegotiation therefore continues. …”
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ON ROLE AND CONTRIBUTION OF THE CONSEIL D’ETAT IN LEGISLATION by Petar Bačić

“…During the 20th century, throughout the Western world, a process of democratisation (legislative) of delegation occurred in a way which is consistent with the specifi c historical experience and constitutional traditions of each country in particular. …”
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Die verband tussen konserwatisme en kognitiewe buigsaamheid by Suid-Afrikaanse adolessente by Sandri Greeff, Roelf Beukes, Karel Esterhuyse

“… The recent democratisation of South Africa has led to many changes in the political, economic and social systems. …”
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Die verband tussen konserwatisme en kognitiewe buigsaamheid by Suid-Afrikaanse adolessente by Sandri Greeff, Roelf Beukes, Karel Esterhuyse

“… The recent democratisation of South Africa has led to many changes in the political, economic and social systems. …”
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SADF soldiers’ silences: institutional, consensual and strategic by Gary Baines

“…Secondly, SADF veterans were complicit in a self-imposed and consensual silence about human rights abuses following the country’s  democratisation. This was partly enabled by a ‘pact of forgetting’ struck by the political elites and leaderships of the statutory and non-statutory forces. …”
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The Role of Parliamentary Bodies of Autonomous Territories in European States by Anna Przyborowska-Klimczak

“…The broad and ever-increasing scope of the autonomy granted to those territories and the good relations between the territories and their states contribute to democratisation of national structures and diminish the tendencies in the authorities and the population of the autonomous territories towards achieving sovereign independence. …”
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«Lo que los españoles llaman la transición» by Juan Francisco Fuentes Aragonés

“…In fact the transition served as a model for other subsequent processes in Europe and America in the course of what Huntington called the «third wave of democratisation». The article also identifies a number of historical/semantic connections with other key concepts more or less related to the transition, such as reform, consensus, agreed rupture or disenchantment. …”
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‘It’s not just the unions that are cut off from people, but the media too’: reconstituting South Africa’s mediated public sphere by Jane Duncan

“…While adopting a critical approach to the normative assumptions underpinning the Habermasian public sphere, this article will argue that South Africa’s negotiated ‘miracle’ transition has provided a framework for media transformation that has both opened up spaces for media democratisation and constrained their ability to transform to the extent that they established common public spaces for deliberative debate. …”
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Chinyanja and the Language of Rights by Harri Englund

“… Discourses on human rights are among the most enduring consequences of the wave of democratisation that swept across sub-Saharan Africa during the 1990s. …”
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