¿Quieren los españoles una democracia (más) participativa ? by Mathias Rull Jan

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“Ethnic Revival” in Globalizing World: The Example of Indigenous Political Movements in Latin America by S. M. Kretov

“…In particular, it explains how such global trends as the democratization and liberalization of social and political spheres, intensified activities of international institutions on the empowerment of disadvantaged social groups, the inclusion of ecological problems in national and international agendas, growing interest of international society to the social and political problems of developing countries have contributed to the intensification of political activities of the indigenous peoples in Latin America in the last 25 years.The indigenous political activism has taken radically different institutional forms and has led to diverse outcomes. …”
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Soviet Researchers on the Middle East: Ahead of Their Time by I. D. Zvyagelskaya

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Elections to the European Parliament as a form of civic expression by Anatoly A. Kanunnikov

“…The author concludes that since the three main proEuropean groups – the European People’s Party, the Socialists and Democrats and the Renewal of Europe – retained their majority in the European Parliament, there is every reason to believe that the European Parliament will take into account the interests of civil society, expressed by its organizations during the election campaign, in its legislative work.…”
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An Investigation on the Link between International Labor Migration and Undocumented Employment: Evidence from Turkish Cinema by Hasan Yüksel

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De Revolutionibus by Franz Josef Brüseke

“…During almost a century, the German social democracy provided the blueprint for the dispute between internal factions with consequences for some western parties until today. In the last decade of the nineteenth century the social democratic field was divided into ideological strands that go from one moderate-wing approach, that favored the political work of small steps within the law, bypassing the so called center-Marxist with a majority in the presidency of Social Democratic Party, to even more activists' groups, which defended a "revolutionary" break with bourgeois society as such. …”
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Sinn Féin’s Tortuous Road to Power by Agnès Maillot

“…Sinn Féin, once an outcast of Northern Ireland political life, now sits in the power-sharing Executive alongside the Democratic Unionist Party. In order to secure such a position, it had to transform itself, abandoning deep-seated principles such as abstentionism and severe the link between political and military actions. …”
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Strike And Power(Lessness) Of The Union by Zoran Stojiljković

“…The second one is the democratic introduction of capitalism through “predatory privatization”. …”
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México ¿la dictadura perfecta? by Rocío  Ruiz Lagier

“…My interest is to show how this image of a peaceful and democratic country has been built, despite the fact that the country lived more than 70 years governed by the same party that controlled everything, and did so in the hands of one of the institutions that has played a relevant and permanent role in the modern history of country: the army. …”
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Labor and the Bush Administration: “down so long, seem like up to me” by Gerald Friedman

“…Most of the unions’ political activity and spending has been in support of candidates of the Democratic Party; but unions have received little in return from Democrats, even during the Clinton Administration. …”
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“Writing about War”: Dương Thu Hương’s Representations of the Vietnam-American War by Subarno Chattarji

“…Dương Thu Hương served in the Women’s Youth Brigade during the war and hoped that victory would lead to the establishment of a more egalitarian and democratic society. Dương was appalled when the communist party clamped down on all freedoms and she expressed her dissent in public and through her fiction. …”
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Un populisme de la misère : Haïti sous la présidence Aristide (1990-2004) by Laurent Jalabert

“…His way of governing is assimilated to a « modern populism » which was slowly set up in the context of a dubious democratic transition. Modern populist, he uses all means to remain in power: corruption, militia of fanatical young people, demonisation of the Western countries, exhortation of the people… He also called upon the usual methods of populist leader: ruling the society by terror, the media, the party, electoral fraud, and corruption…. …”
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Neo-traditionalism as a factor of neoconservative modernization: specificity of the evolution of power and control by Valentin Tyan

“…Neotraditionalism in the management system of the modern information society is dual. Democratic of the personalized management models is relative. …”
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Ideology and Values in Turkey's Foreign Policy by V. A. Avatkov

“…Under the rule of the Justice and Development Party headed by the current President R.T. Erdogan the country began a gradual transition from «Kemalism», which includes the preservation of secularism, ProWestern democratic values and a gradual departure from the Ottoman heritage, to a more conservative domestic and foreign policy, characterized by the strengthening of Islamist and nationalist sentiments, as well as the transition to the policy of «neo-Ottomanism», «neo-pan-Turkism». …”
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Euroscepticism in France: Past and Present by R. I. Blagoveshchenskii

“…For example, a democratic socialist political party ‘La France Insoumise’, led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who won an impressive 18 percent of the votes in the last presidential elections, harshly criticizes Brussel and does not rule out the possibility of France leaving the EU. …”
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Legislation on direct democracy in modern Vietnam by T. T. Thoa

“…Characterized as a developing country with a single-party ruling political system, Vietnam aims to build a united and cohesive society on the basis of ensuring the people’s mastery through direct and representative democracy. …”
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Affective economies of racism on social media by Rodwell Makombe, Bright Sinyonce, Mpitseng Tladi, Saneliso Thambo

“…The findings of the study show that white supremacist groups in South Africa use social media as a platform to recontextualise and re-mediate topical issues in South African society and ramp up group solidarity by circulating racist views that undermine and de-legitimise the ruling party (the African National Congress) and its policies. …”
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CHINA THREAT THEORY: A CULTURAL INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE MASS MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE 19TH CONGRESS by Mert Çetin, Hakan Cavlak

“…This study examines skepticism of the Western societies towards China’sgrowth which manifests itself on the Western mass media coverage of the ChineseCommunist Party’s 19th congress based on cultural-institutional approach. …”
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Od ruchu protestu do partii władzy. Rozwój Zielonych w Niemczech by Grzegorz Brzozowski-Zabost

“…It was an act of opposition against pollution, use of nuclear power, and some aspects of life in highly developed and industrialized society, the formal inauguration was held 1980 in West Germany. 1990 three civil rights groups in East Germany combined to form Bündnis 90, which merged with Die Grünen after long uniting process in 1993. 18 years after foundation they built together with social democrats from SPD government which lasted for two term of office between 1998 and 2005. …”
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KATALIKŲ BAŽNYČIOS KAITA LIETUVOJE TRANSFORMACIJŲ LAIKOTARPIU by Valdas Pruskus

“…First - a loosing of the certain a priori predetermined position which does not look well from the standpoint of democratic pluralism proper to civic society. Second - the relations of the Church as an institution with other public institutions are defined more clearly and a necessity to strive for a realization of its interests (ideas, thoughts, opinions) in a competition with other (religious groups) is better realized. …”
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