Public sector corruption in South Asia: focusing on institutional factors with a two-step fsQCA by Jinwon Han, Chanwahn Kim

“…Additionally, we emphasise the need for South Asian policymakers to enhance external audits and integrity assessments by independent agencies while prioritising the improvement of democratic governance as a key strategy for effectively addressing corruption in the public sector.…”
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Fragments of the past: The intersection of AI, historical imagery, and early childhood creativity by Ilene R. Berson, Michael J. Berson

“…The findings demonstrate how technology can be used to democratize access to cultural heritage resources while enabling children's creative play centered on variation, improvisation, and human interaction. …”
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Professionnalisation des enseignants et démocratisation scolaire : une formation initiale pensée à l’aune de la réduction des inégalités scolaires ? by Claire Benveniste

“…Despite orders to implement "good practices", considered "effective", or even democratizing, primary school teachers ultimately have few resources to act on the conditions of equal access for all to school knowledge.…”
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Strategy for controlling tourist mobility: analysis of the biopolitical processes of territorialization implemented by the cruise tourism industry in a Caribbean destination by Luc Renaud

“…It discusses how local communities undertake the management of their territory through the exercise of a democratic, “bottom-up” biopower.…”
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President De Klerk and ethos by Johann Cornelius de Wet

“…In fact, given the principles of (Western) democratic politics, no South African State President or Prime Minister has ever reached out with so much apparent good will to the vast majority of South Africans. …”
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Le communalisme ou l’avenir de la Commune de 1871 by Pierre Sauvêtre, Frank Noulin, Jean-François Wagniart

“…This is the meaning of the ongoing construction of a communalist movement, which can find in the Commune of 1871 a set of inspirations – on the substitution of a confederation of communes for the state, the self-institution of a commune which is both democratic and social, and the emancipation of women – and in the work of Murray Bookchin a theoretical contribution to define the relationship between communalism and ecology. …”
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Penser éducation au politique et questions environnementales dans la démocratie by Camille Roelens

“…A brief illustrative study of the approach and work of the Canadian music group Les Cowboys fringants (3) shows how this type of informal educator can play an important role to provide resources and porpositions of influence for human autonomy in dealing with environmental issues within the democratic political framework.…”
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Les territoires sahariens en Algérie. Gouvernance, acteurs et recomposition territoriale by Badreddine Yousfi

“…The modernization of political organizations through the central state has failed to establish a model of modern governance at the local level that is based on «democratic» values. Thus, these territories are experiencing a crisis of governance at a time when the traditional bodies have been weakened and rejected.…”
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Political parallelism in Iceland by Guðmundsson Birgir

“…However, voters and candidates of social democratic and liberal internationally oriented parties perceive a significantly lower degree of parallelism than others.…”
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Des conditions de légitimité de l'institution scolaire dans une société des individus by Camille Roelens

“…This paper explores, from the perspective of political philosophy of education, the hypothesis that an explicit and assumed paradigm shift from a republican view of school to a more democratic, individualistic, liberal and morally minimalist conception of school may be necessary in the near future. …”
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Soulèvement populaire au pays de Chávez by Julien Rebotier

“…In front of the reiterated threat of breaking both legal and constitutional orders, the budding (re)politicization of Latin-American societies might improve a culture of politics, strengthen a democratic order, and consolidate still weak national sovereignties in the region.…”
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Aristotle and the Ọmọlúwàbí Ethos: Ethical Implications for Public Morality in Nigeria by Sunday Olaoluwa Dada

“… This essay explores the philosophical affinity between Aristotle’s concept of virtue as character habituation and the Yorùbá ethical and ontological understanding of ọmọlúwàbí as the foundation for re-examining the philosophical foundation of democratic governance in Nigeria. Based on the Aristotelian insistence that the good life is the end of politics, the essay argues for a rethinking of the concept of public morality as character-based political dynamics that enables politicians to think more about the social contract between the government and the governed, rather than an amoral understanding of politics that eschew morality and undermines the well-being of the citizens. …”
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Éduquer à représenter démocratiquement ? by Philippe Sahuc

“…Educating towards democratic representation should be a whole society stake, as seems to in crisis the political system which is the Republic groundings. …”
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Apologétique et vulgarisation : les notes de lecture sur les « pamphlets » de Mgr de Ségur by Taro Nakajima

“…While deriding his backward vision, Flaubert was interested in the way Mgr de Ségur’s booklets democratize modern religion, confronted with Protestant propaganda, by aiming at the working classes and popularizing his predecessors’ religious knowledge.…”
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Chaînes de référence et structure textuelle dans les Essais sur la peinture de Diderot by Céline Guillot-Barbance, Matthieu Quignard

“…This corpus is taken from the DEMOCRAT project, during which it has been prepared and annotated. …”
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Competing Partisan Regimes and the Transformation of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-2015 by Jesse H. Rhodes

“…This paper interprets this event as the most recent symptom of a long-term partisan and institutional struggle over the scope of federal voting rights enforcement. Lingering liberal Democratic influence in Congress, coupled with conservatives’ fears of violating the norm of racial equality, obstructed Republican diminution of federal voting rights enforcement via legislation. …”
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Interdistance et instabilité au sein des chaînes de référence : indices textuels ? by Lucie Rousier-Vercruyssen, Frédéric Landragin

“…Carried out on an extract from the corpus DEMOCRAT, this study aims to examine whether the distance between referring expressions in a reference chain has an effect on the lexical heterogeneity of this reference chain. …”
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Quand la foule devient peuple … avec Léon Gambetta by Aude Dontenwille-Gerbaud

“…The contributions of Jürgen Habermas, Claude Lefort and Paul Ricoeur invite us to move over the analysis of a republican idea in order to insist on the actual making of a democratic society.…”
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Strategic Litigation in a Time of Populism: Poland’s Experience by Adam Ploszka

“…I argue that strategic litigation was an important tool used by civil society and crucial for countering democratic backsliding in Poland in 2015–2023. In addition to traditional actors involved in strategic litigation in Poland, new ones have joined—such as the Human Rights Commissioner (the “Ombudsman”) or increased their involvement—such as corporate actors. …”
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Team member exchange leadership model to improve company strategy development by Agung Edy Wibowo, Ida Bagus Udayana Putra, Ida Aju Brahma Ratih, Ida Bagus Cempena, Ida Aju Brahma Sari, Suhardi Suhardi

“…The results of the study explain that a company led by an entrepreneurial spirit, charismatic, democratic model is able to improve team performance so that the company can develop quickly through planning strategies and periodic evaluations from leaders and members of the work team. …”
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