Estratégias de mediação cultural: Inovação e experimentação no Serviço Educativo da Casa da Música by Pedro Quintela

“…This understanding of mediation is associated with the enduring principle of “cultural democratisation” and also reflects the increasing concerns of cultural agents and institutions regarding sustainability, in a context in which public authorities are tending to withdraw funding. …”
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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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L’Expérience Esthétique, une Nouvelle Conquête Démocratique by Alain Kerlan (Université Lumière Lyon II, Lyon, France)

“…Il commence par en montrer la grande actualité politique et éducative, et insiste sur la nécessité d’en relancer aujourd’hui le geste, dans la perspective d’une nouvelle et nécessaire étape de la démocratisation culturelle. Se référant ensuite à l’esthétique de John Dewey, et prenant appui sur les travaux contemporains consacrés aux artistes engagés dans la tâche éducative, il interroge les intérêts et les interrogations que l’art et l’éducation ont aujourd’hui en commun. …”
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Technoscientific Dialogues. Expertise, Democracy and Technological Cultures by Wiebe E. Bijker, Paolo Volonté, Cristina Grasseni

“…The role of experts and their competencies in contemporary society are at the core of current debates in democratising technological cultures and establishing innovative forms of responsible dialogue within society. …”
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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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Re-examining the East Asian fertility decline by Poon, Prime

“…The comparison includes other factors like the country’s historical background, population control policy measures and history, gender inequality levels, type of political regime, and level of democratisation. Additionally, fundamental theories and ideology behind the past and present population policies undertaken by East Asian countries are also re-examined to determine the relationship between policy, theory and fertility transition in East Asia.…”
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KEADILAN BAGI YANG BERBEDA PAHAM: REKONSILIASI DAN KEADILAN BAGI KORBAN TRAGEDI 1965 by Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib

“…Human rights enforcement is one improperly- accomplished agenda in this post-1998 democratisation. Severe human rights violations such as 1965 Tragedy remain obscure, nonlitigation resolution (e.g. recognition and compensation) is considered the best solution. …”

Francis Fukuyama dan “Berakhirnya Sejarah” seorang neokonservatif by Muhamad Takiyuddin Ismail

“…Should the idea of democratisation be perceived as effectively practised, the neoconservatives should pay more attention to the aspect of political development…”
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Pharmacologie des appareils photographiques by Estelle Bella

“…Nous tenterons de montrer que la démocratisation de l’appareil photographique peut être comprise d’un point de vue « pharmacologique », à la fois comme un danger pour les savoirs photographiques et la liberté des praticiens, mais aussi comme un vecteur de nouvelles possibilités artistiques.…”
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American hýbris : US Democracy Promotion in Cuba after the Cold War — Part 2 by Alessandro Badella

“…In fact, despite Obama not abandoning democratisation, it seems he is pursuing a more ‘teleological approach’ to the matter.…”
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Data analytics for crop management: a big data view by Nabila Chergui, Mohand Tahar Kechadi

“…Digital Agriculture appeared as a consequence of the democratisation of digital devices and advances in artificial intelligence and data science. …”
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The French Socialist Party: Membership between Closed and Open Primaries by Marino De Luca

“…<span class="abs_content">For some years now the clamor for democratisation of parties' internal functioning has been spreading across democracies. …”
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Une chefferie précoloniale au Niger face aux représentants coloniaux, naissance et essor d’une dynastie by Jean-Paul Rothiot

“…Montrant non seulement une autonomie face au pouvoir colonial mais aussi une capacité à exploiter la situation créée par celui-ci, la dynastie fondée par Aouta s’installe durablement au Niger et survit aux évolutions politiques, indépendance puis processus de démocratisation.…”
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A criss-cross of forces: The power relationship in the process of creating the citizenship curriculum in Taiwan by Cheng-Yu Hung

“…The citizenship curriculum used in Taiwan during the authoritarian period from 1949 to 1987 sacrificed the individual for the national interest as a tool for political socialisation. In the wake of democratisation since 1987, the curriculum has gradually been stripped of its nationalist overtones which were designed to foster ‘informed citizens’ to facilitate those in power. …”
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Pacted Transition to Democracy: The Case of Mozambique by Pekka Virtanen

“…The findings show that – contrary to the conclusions drawn from the “third wave” studies – in Mozambique the pact concluded in the context of the peace accord of 1992, which ended a sixteenyear civil war, had contradictory results in terms of democratisation. While the political situation has been relatively stable until recent years, the country has moved toward competitive authoritarian rule instead of full democracy. …”
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Skills, rights and civic democracy: Citizenship education between equity, equal opportunities and learning by Antonella Nuzzaci, Fabio Orecchio

“…The contribution considers civic and citizenship competences with reference to the value they hold in the definition of the cultural profiles of the school population and in the cultural framework outlined by the European Union, which is concerned with promoting them, also starting from the changes that have taken place in the process of cultural democratisation that has involved the school system. …”
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Pacted Transition to Democracy: The Case of Mozambique by Pekka Virtanen

“…The findings show that – contrary to the conclusions drawn from the “third wave” studies – in Mozambique the pact concluded in the context of the peace accord of 1992, which ended a sixteenyear civil war, had contradictory results in terms of democratisation. While the political situation has been relatively stable until recent years, the country has moved toward competitive authoritarian rule instead of full democracy. …”
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Trajectoire d’un parti islamiste dans l’Algérie post-guerre civile. Le cas du Mouvement de la Société pour la Paix (MSP) by Claire Dupuy-Lorvin

“…This repositioning, far from being a sign of radicalisation of the movement, can on the contrary be perceived as a reinforcement of a moderate approach of the party which continues to follow the rules of the institutional game while demanding a democratisation of the system in place.…”
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Entre la republicanización y la militarización. Las transformaciones de las fuerzas policiales en la Segunda República española, 1931-1936 by Sergio Vaquero Martínez

“…This article analyses the democratisation of the police forces during the Spanish Second Republic, an incomplete process with advances and setbacks. …”
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La terreur, l’intertextualité et l’hybridité culturelle dans Sans Voix de Hafsa Zinaï-Koudi by Anne Marie Miraglia

“…Celle-ci a éclaté en 1992 après un coup d’état qui a interrompu le processus de démocratisation, et a privé le FIS (Front Islamique du Salut) de sa victoire électorale.…”
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