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Category Archives: Democracy
In Greece, we see democracy in action
The public debates of the outraged in Athens are the closest we have come to democratic practice in recent European history. Thousands of people come together daily in Syntagma to discuss the next steps. The parallels with the classical Athenian … Continue reading
Crise: déficit maior é de democracia, não de ajuste fiscal
Read A dimensão sistêmica da crise não é um atributo apenas da esfera econômica, mas argui a capacidade da esquerda de intervir para mudar o rumo da engrenagem em pane, em vez de se comportar apenas como um dente constitutivo … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Civil society, Crises, Democracy
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Invocación ciudadana y política educativa
Podemos decir que nuestra vía a la democracia post dictadura ha estado de manera importante sustentada en un temor al desacuerdo, permaneciendo, de manera invariables, procedimientos e instituciones excluyentes, pero que tienen la virtud de darle estabilidad al régimen político, … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, Democracy, Educación, Education
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Social Media and the Revival of American Democracy
Read Campaigns in the United States increasingly boil down to an unseemly competition for cash. Why not rely on social media, instead of radio and TV, as key campaign communications mechanisms — and thus free U.S. democracy from the debilitating … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Politics, Social media
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#yeswecamp: nosotros sí podemos
Read Las TIC han generado posibilidades reales de participación: “No somos los mismos desde que estamos en las redes sociales”, decía Castells en motivo de la revolución Egipcia. Las redes sociales, abundantes en posibilidades de participación, han causado un empoderamiento … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Community organizing, Democracy, Digital activism, ICT technologies
Tagged digital activism, e-participation, ICT
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Local Democracy, Rural Community, and Participatory School Governance
Read This article considers the indigenization of democracy by conceptualizing participatory deliberative decision-making practice as a tool to strengthen the functioning of local schools and to enhance democratic responsiveness within communities. Drawing on case-studies of bottom-up approaches to school governance, … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Change methods, Community, Democracy, Participation, Poverty, Power, Schools
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From Dictatorship to Democracy – A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
One of my major concerns for many years has been how people could prevent and destroy dictatorships. The sense of pathos and outrage against the brutalities, along with admiration of the calm heroism of unbelievably brave men and women, were … Continue reading
Governance, Complexity and Democratic Participation
This article applies complexity theory to urban governance. It is argued that expert-based, hierarchical-instrumental policy making encounters insurmountable obstacles in modern liberal democracies. One of the root causes of this erosion of output legitimacy is the complexity of social systems. … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Democracy, Governance, Participation
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Creative Democracy – Wisdom Councils at Work
“Our movements are trying to create a politics that challenges all the certainties of traditional leftist politics, not by replacing them with new ones, but by dissolving any notion that we have answers, plans or strategies that are watertight or … Continue reading
New Technologies, Democracy and Social Movement
My argument is that although the technology of the Internet provides us with some new form of public space, the reality of Internet political use in most developing countries presents a rather gloomy scenario. The considerations are twofold. First, there … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Social media, Social movements
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