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What Is Islamic Democracy? The Three Cs Of Islamic Governance, Muqtedar Khan
What Is Islamic Democracy? The Three Cs Of Islamic Governance, Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
This book chapter explores the three Cs of Islamic Governance; Constitution, Consultation and Consent.
Two Cheers For Burma’S Rigged Election, Neil A. Englehart
Two Cheers For Burma’S Rigged Election, Neil A. Englehart
Neil A Englehart
Burma’s recent election was clearly not free and fair. However, it can also be seen as improving a uniquely unrepresentative government, creating greater pluralism, and institutionalizing differences within the ruling junta. Even the rigged election may have created opportunities for further opening in the future.
Review Of "Consolidating Taiwan’S Democracy", Su-Mei Ooi
Review Of "Consolidating Taiwan’S Democracy", Su-Mei Ooi
Su-Mei Ooi
The article reviews the book Consolidating Taiwan's Democracy by John F. Copper.
Civil Society Influence On International Organizations: Theorizing The State Channel, Christopher Pallas, Anders Uhlin
Civil Society Influence On International Organizations: Theorizing The State Channel, Christopher Pallas, Anders Uhlin
Christopher L. Pallas
Women's Leadership For Women's Rights And Democracy, Donna M. Hughes Dr.
Women's Leadership For Women's Rights And Democracy, Donna M. Hughes Dr.
Donna M. Hughes
No abstract provided.
Legitimation, Mark C. Modak-Truran
Legitimation, Mark C. Modak-Truran
Mark C Modak-Truran
This article identifies three different conceptions of legitimation - pre-modern, modern, and post-secular - that compete both within and across national boundaries for the coveted prize of informing the social imaginary regarding how the government and the law should be legitimated in constitutional democracies. Pre-modern conceptions of legitimation consider governments and rulers legitimate if they are ordained by God or if the political system is ordered in accordance with the normative cosmic order. Contemporary proponents of the pre-modern conception range from those in the United States who maintain that the government has been legitimated by the “Judeo-Christian tradition” to those …
Equilibrium Institutions: The Federal-Proportional Trade-Off, Josep M. Colomer
Equilibrium Institutions: The Federal-Proportional Trade-Off, Josep M. Colomer
Josep M. Colomer
Durable democracies display a huge variety of combinations of basic institutional formulas. A quantitative logical model shows that while there are multiple equilibrium sets of institutions, each involves some trade-off between the size of the country, the territorial structure of government and the electoral system. Specifically, the larger the country, the more important is federalism in comparison to proportional representation electoral rules for the durability of democratic institutions. The explanatory power of the model is positively tested on all current durable democratic countries. It is also illustrated with a few both fitting and deviant cases. A relevant implication is that …
Environmental Inequalities And Democratic Citizenship: Linking Normative Theory With Empirical Research, Fabian Schuppert, Ivo Wallimann-Helmer
Environmental Inequalities And Democratic Citizenship: Linking Normative Theory With Empirical Research, Fabian Schuppert, Ivo Wallimann-Helmer
Fabian Schuppert
The aim of this paper is to link empirical findings concerning environmental inequalities with different normative yard-sticks for assessing whether these inequalities should be deemed unjust, or not. We argue that such an inquiry must necessarily take into account some caveats regarding both empirical research and normative theory. We suggest that empirical results must be contextualised by establishing geographies of risk. As a normative yard-stick we propose a moderately demanding social-egalitarian account of justice and democratic citizenship, which we take to be best suited to identify unjust as well as legitimate instances of socio-environmental inequality.