Simultaneous elections for budget efficiency: Advancing fair and inclusive democracy by Yenita Yenita

“…The study underscores the importance of the interconnection between election laws and the administration of simultaneous elections in strengthening Indonesia’s democratic processes. Addressing existing challenges and ensuring consistency in regulatory frameworks will be crucial for enhancing the integrity and efficiency of future general elections. …”
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Le Collage comme outil exploratoire collectif dans la conception d’espaces publics by Sonia Curnier, Véronique Mauron Layaz

“…Going beyond the office’s practice, it engages all audiences in the making and appropriation of public space, thus affirming its democratic value.Public Space Design, Collage, Tool, Unexpected, Collaboration…”
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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT: A THEMATIC REVIEW by Abdulrasheed Abdulyakeen

“…It differs depending on historical contexts and the dynamic political environments of Africa and the rest of the globe.It was also discovered that for sixty years now after independence, the democratic journey has remained tortuous because of the reckless pursuits of power by the political class. …”
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A Politics of Working-Class Culture and the Culture of Working-Class Politics: The Aesthetics and Activism of Amber Film and Photography Collective and the Berwick Street Film Coll... by Jessica Williams Boyall

“…By engaging in a comparative reading, I highlight the breadth of Amber’s oeuvre, tracing the development of their filmmaking strategies—which included agitprop, the fusion of factual and fictional formal elements and transnational collaboration with the German Democratic Republic’s film production company, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA)—to demonstrate that, contrary to criticisms levelled by contemporary theorists clustered around Screen magazine and the British Film Institute, Amber transcended the constraints of Documentary Realism by incorporating radical avant-garde aesthetics into their oppositional practice. …”
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Unpacking the Municipal Demarcation Application in South Africa by Zaakirah Iqbal Jeeva, Trynos Gumbo, Juanee Cilliers

“… The year 2022 marks the sixth democratic local municipal demarcation process in South Africa. …”
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Voters’ attitudes towards political parties’ communication: the case of Diepsloot voters in Gauteng, South Africa by Trevor Hlungwani, Siyasanga Tyali

“…The research focused on the African National Congress (ANC), the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). …”
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Complexe de sécurité ouest-méditerranéen : externalisation et sécurisation de la migration by Abdennour Benantar

“…The article concludes that the delegation process is limited to security issues and without effect in the ethical sphere, despite the context of the democratic Arab uprisings.…”
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Entre precariedade e resistência: a cidade como espaço de produção e luta no capitalismo cognitivo by Carolina Salomão Corrêa

“…In face of life and work conditions in the city, increasingly precarious, the city is also a territory for struggles to improve life conditions and the city’s democratic administration. While, in the factories, the workers organized around the rights related to wages and schedules; in the city, the multitude struggles for the physical and incorporeal infrastructure for social life, this that in last analysis feeds the cognitive economy. …”
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The Chilean Model Confronting Expectations of Social Justice by L. V. Diyakova

“…This movement demonstrated the disillusionment and dissatisfaction of the broad social strata with the results of political and social development and indicated the beginning of a protracted, intractable crisis.The fundamental reason for the protests was a deep contradiction between economic efficiency and social justice, laid down during the neoliberal modernization of Augusto Pinochet (1973–1990), and not overcome during the 30 years of democratic development, despite a large-scale social policy. …”
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BALTIC ETHNOCRACIES BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE EU: IN SEARCH OF CONSENSUS UNDER CONDITIONS OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS by V. V. Vorotnikov

“…It is possible to nominally define the political situation in Lithuania as partisan consensus, whereas in Latvia and Estonia foreign political strategies complicated by unresolved domestic ethnic and language minorities problems are a battlegroud for ruling right-wing conservative coalitions and social-democratic oppositions. So, main social and political forces in the Baltic states faced the task to find a new consensus on foreign political issues in order to efficiently develop national economies under the conditions of financial economic turbulence in the EU and worldwide as well as to support social unity.…”
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Peculiarities of general cultural and political values transformation in Russia by B. S. Nevolin, V. F. Nitsevich

“…The relevance of the study is due to the fact that over the past thirty years Russian state cultural policy has been focused on strengthening democratic cultural values, but in recent years the situation has begun to change dramatically. …”
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Essop Pahad by Letlhokwa Mpedi

“…It was in this time that Essop clung to the promise of a free and democratic South Africa. As the Greek tragedian Aeschylus once said: ‘I know how men in exile feed on dreams.’ …”
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INNOVATIVE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN ELECTION POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS by Анна РУДНЄВА

“…This duality necessitates a balanced approach that leverages technological benefits while safeguarding democratic principles. …”
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Places and Cultures of Capitalism: Histories from the Grassroots by Elsa Devienne, Andrew Diamond

“…Over the past decade or so, the concept of capitalism has exploded within the domains of popular culture and mainstream political discourse in the United States, a phenomenon driven forward by the visibility of anticapitalist movements like Occupy Wall Street, the appearance of bestselling books like Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century and blockbuster movies like The Big Short, and the meteoric rise of nationally prominent democratic socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. …”
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The Home and the World: Analysing Socio-Spatial Dynamics and Identity-Formation in Indian Picturebooks by Aditi Bhardwaj, Devjani Ray

“…By coalescing Developmental and Environmental Psychology with content analysis, the paper addresses the spatial manifestations of marginalities within childhood and makes a case for identity-affirming, democratic and diverse socio-spatial representations of childhoods in multicultural children’s literature. …”
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Langston Hughes chez Pierre Seghers : récit d’un engagement poétique by Annick Ettlin

“…The study of this corpus of texts leads me to the following hypothesis: Langston Hughes’s reception in France was determined by the interventions of Seghers, who, rather than emphasize his status as one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance or as a political author, highlighted his commitment to the democratic diffusion of his poetry. In Seghers’s view, his biography and his work can be seen as a model poetic gesture: both active and likely to solicit action.…”
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ELECTION, MONEY POLITICSAND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABILITY OF DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA by Ayo Awopeju, Lawrence Olugbenga Martins

“…Despite the fact that money politics hasthe strengths, it has implications of encouraging looters, eroding competence of the candidate, weakening political participation and undermining democratic governance in Nigeria. The study concludes that unregulated money politics in elections by political parties and politicians has debilitating impact on sustaining democracy and that it is only the hostile stance of government that can completely root out the pervasive money bag politics in Nigeria. …”
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Freedom of Expression: what lessons should we learn from US experience? by Ronaldo Porto Macedo Junior

“…The US more strict and conceptual jurisprudence on this issue offers a powerful and democratic alternative to the balancing model and represents a rich conceptual analysis still unknown by Brazilian courts.…”
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Revisiting ECB’s Technocratic Legitimacy: No Longer Fit‐for‐Purpose? by Dimitrios Argyroulis, Nikolas Vagdoutis

“…We argue that the ECB’s model of technocratic legitimacy is untenable in a democratic polity, given the extent and type of choices that the Governing Council is required to make in the current policy setting. …”
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Emergent online discourses and the (re)framing of women’s identity by Sibongile Mpofu

“… The advent of social media communication platforms, specifically blogs as sites of political engagement, means that they now constitute the key carriers of democratic public discourse. Previously marginalised groups such as women can now deliberate, interpret and re-frame their own narratives and identities. …”
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