participation deficits. These crises can arise in five examples of democracy: representative, deliberative, direct, electronic, and monitory. The way that these five democracies are affected by, and should respond to, each crisis is contingent on their unique
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Monique Deveaux
of their political capacities, may differ in significant respects from those of men. If so, this arguably warrants a re-thinking of our strategies for political inclusion with a view to women’s participation in deliberation. Iris Young’s (2000: 52
Ben Berkowitz and Jean-Paul Gagnon
government problem-solving service, the qualitative feedback that Berkowitz and his colleagues have received indicates that the service their company provides increases citizen participation levels and positively affects how citizens perceive the quality of
Louise Haagh
perspective on humanist justice and governance in terms of conditions for well-being actually prevailing provides an avenue to explore problems highlighted by Republican democracy theorists recently, to do with the limits of both participation and formal
The Modernity of Political Representation
Its Innovative Thrust and Transnational Semantic Transfers during the Sattelzeit (Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)
Samuel Hayat and José María Rosales
together with citizens’ participation and should thus constitute the basis for any thick conception of democracy. 6 This “democratic turn,” produced since the late 1990s in the theory of political representation, was soon followed, and sometimes rivaled
Babies and Boomers
Intergenerational Democracy and the Political Epidemiology of COVID-19
Toby Rollo
-making. They are prohibited from participating as equals in representational governance, let alone challenging the notion that representational governance is an appropriate means of participation for all human beings. It is not surprising, then, that children
Peter Levine
participation and civic engagement, you should advocate for your stance. You should not conflate it with a prediction about what is going to happen next, unless you have reliable grounds for that prediction. (Will Italy really impose a permanent ban on
The Deliberative Potential of Facultative Referendums
Procedure and Substance in Direct Democracy
Alice el-Wakil
, promotion of the common good, and participation—by shifting the focus to the actual acceptance of reasons by the citizens and by introducing uncertainty thanks to its bottom-up aspect. I finally emphasize the value of the shift from hypothetical to actual
“Till I Have Done All That I Can”
An Auxiliary Nurse’s Memories of World War I
Michelle Moravec
clippings from May 1919, long after Clarke left the Comité. The title “France 1918–19” indicates that at least the front page was completed after Clarke’s participation in the war had ended, while the penciled annotation “Alma A. Clarke American Red Cross
The Corpus Christi Devotion
Gender, Liturgy, and Authority among Dominican Nuns in Castile in the Middle Ages
Mercedes Pérez Vidal
fourteenth century brought about changes and new ideas concerning liturgical participation for women. They were allowed to take communion only a few times a year but the importance of having a view of the altar—and the host placed upon it—was emphasized. This