Usages participatifs des technologies et désir d’émancipation : une articulation fragile et paradoxale by Serge Proulx

“…We suggest some avenues of research for articulating the participative usage of digital technologies – considered simultaneously as facilitators for emancipation and for alienation – and, on the other hand, a set of individual and social practices aimed at the construction of a cognitive democracy. Or, in other words, the construction of a social and political regime in which people could have full rights to access knowledge, a right which tends to diminish with the gradual hyperspecialisation of disciplinary thinking in natural and social sciences. …”
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Pourquoi la Catalogne ne peut-elle pas s’autodéterminer ? Les raisons de l'État espagnol by Lucía Payero López

“…This article analyzes the discourse used by the so-called ‘No’ Bloc –comprised of the two majority parties in the Congress of Deputies (the People’s Party and the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party), as well as Citizens Party and Union Progress and Democracy– in order to respond to the challenge posed by Catalan pro-sovereign parties. …”
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Toward an Architecture of Dissensus: Participatory Urbanism in South-East Asia by Camillo Boano, Emily Kelling

“…A critical reflection of the Thai programme Baan Mankong (secure housing) and its regional counterpart Asian Coalition for Community Action (ACCA) – an entity aimed at creating an alternative development process in which people that were previously ignored and marginalized are engaged at the centre of a process of transforming their lives, spaces and position in the city – sheds light on such relationship in order to promote a re-conceptualisation of the role of architecture and design in the process of socially just urban development, participatory urbanism and the struggle for democracy.…”
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The identity politics of the local head election in Bolaang Mongondow, Indonesia by Alfons Kimbal, Jufri Rompas

“…Democracy in Indonesia should be a place to channel the aspirations of the people according to their preferences. …”
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Le bilan sociétal : un outil de management pour renforcer l’ancrage territorial et la responsabilité sociale des coopératives agricoles by Yves Cariou, Sandrine Fournie, Fredéric Wallet

“…For this reason, social assessment seems to be a relevant answer to establish a diagnosis of the co-operatives, integrating internal democracy, people promotion, solidarity, mutualism, territorial implication and respect of environment. …”
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Le bilan sociétal : un outil de management pour renforcer l’ancrage territorial et la responsabilité sociale des coopératives agricoles by Yves Cariou, Sandrine Fournie, Fredéric Wallet

“…For this reason, social assessment seems to be a relevant answer to establish a diagnosis of the co-operatives, integrating internal democracy, people promotion, solidarity, mutualism, territorial implication and respect of environment. …”
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Nouvelles polarisations politiques en Espagne : l’image de l’adversaire dans les discours de Ciudadanos et Podemos (2014‑2019) by Laure Beltran

“…However, since the 2000’s, this consensual system has been criticised: henceforth, ideological confluence no longer ensured the stability of democracy but instead jeopardizes it. In response to what is considered as an artificial political pluralism, two new political parties emerged in 2016 – Ciudadanos and Podemos. …”
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Symposium on the role of religious leaders in peacemaking and social change in Africa: Zambia's case by F.D. Sakala

“… The Zambian people chose a new president on 31 October 1991 after almost twenty years under one party rule. …”
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Reflections on Korea in 2010: Trials and prospects for recovery of common sense in 2011 by Paik Nak-chung

“…We may now foresee an accelerating destruction not only of the nation's environment but of democracy and rule of law as well. In the meantime, the speedy economic recovery that the government boasts about, setting aside for the moment the view of some experts that we still have to wait and see how real the recovery is, has not succeeded in improving the livelihood of ordinary people or creating many new jobs.The author calls for fresh thinking to avert a regionwide and domestic crisis.…”
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The Dilemmas of Solidarity of Civic Activists: Supporting Displaced Ukrainians in a Non‐Solidarian Regime by Violetta Zentai, Margit Feischmidt

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(Més)aventures d’une coalition contestataire : le cas de la Coordination nationale pour le changement et la démocratie (CNCD) en Algérie by Layla Baamara

“…Created on January 21, 2011 in the aftermath of riots across the country, the National Coordination for Change and Democracy (NCCD) called for forces to rally and denounce the repression. …”
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Justice climatique et démocratie environnementale - Les inégalités d’accès au droit des populations vulnérables aux risques littoraux – quelques éléments de comparaison by Marie-Laure Lambert, Aurélie Arnaud, Cécilia Claeys

“…The environmental democracy, as promoted by the Aarhus convention (access to environmental information, participation in the public decisions and access to the judge), encounters, in reality, economic and social inequalities. …”
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Flourishing of Occidentalism in Iran After Cultural Revolution by Shalaleh ZABARDAST

“…Modernity changed the community interests; it idealized individuality and liberal democracy, and based its main aim on pushing religion to the outskirts of human life. …”
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"Totalrevideringen av strafflagen slutförs" by Pekka Koskinen

“…When Mr Nikita Hrushtshev, leader of a superpower, came to congratulate Finland's president upon his birthday, Mr Kekkonen said: "Let the rest of the world become communistic, but Finland will stick to the traditional Nordic democracy, if the majority of Finnish people so want, as I believe it to do."…”
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Quand l’État chilien se proposait de construire la démocratie économique. Nationalisations, Aire de propriété sociale et système de participation des salariés durant l'Unité popula... by Franck Gaudichaud

“…It creates an original attempt at economic democracy based on the co-management and employee participation in company management. …”
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Ludic Populism and Its Unpopular Subversion by Sascha Pöhlmann

“…Focusing on strategy games and action games, my examples include Civilization V, Democracy 3, Tropico 4, BioShock Infinite, Just Cause 3, and Far Cry 4.…”
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DISCUSSIONS REGARDING A POSSIBLE GOVERNMENT GUARDIANSHIP CONTROL OVER ADMINISTRATIVE ACTS by Constantin Claudiu ULARIU

“…The Government, as an emblematic and fundamental exponent of executive power within the framework of the rule of law, alongside the President of Romania, constitutes a determinant structure of representative democracy. It is the result of the Parliament's act of choice, as the supreme representative body of the Romanian people and the sole legislative body in the state. …”
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Editorial by Ann-Kristin Kölln, Antony Mason, Maria Lenk, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“…Specifically, he argues that democracy requires the promoting of substantive equality and people’s substantive interests and that descriptive representation of the young can achieve both. …”
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The impact of digital technologies on modern society. An example of a social credit rating system in China by A. P. Klimovich

“…A connection of this tradition with the official goal of the system, stated by the government of China to teach the Chinese society to become more honest by complete surveillance over people, has been shown. It has been shown how this system classifies people into several categories, creating the lists of those to reward and those to censure. …”
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Representação descritiva em assembleias legislativas: gênero e raça como categorias de análise política by Orlando Lyra de Carvalho, Vitor de Angelo

“…Based on empirical data, this article explores the relationships between the descriptive and substantive representation of women and black people in state assemblies in three regions of Brazil. …”
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