conservative forces of the former colony and where economic power remains under the control of international finance capital’ (1973: 452). By this distinction, Nkrumah assumed the self-evidentiality of the legal political dismantling of the colonial, an
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Participatory Democracy in Unlikely Places
What Democratic Theorists Can Learn from Democratic Professionals
Selen A. Ercan’s and Albert W. Dzur
has this potential for transformative and lasting change that is often impossible via top-down rule enforcement. Of course, there is also the community building—social capital accumulation—aspect of solving problems together rather than just enforcing
Deliberation and Courts
The Role of the Judiciary in a Deliberative System
Donald Bello Hutt
Capital (2013–2017). Notes 1 Bohman (1996: 4 ; 1998: 401, 402 ; 2009: 28 ); Chambers (2003: 308 ); Cohen (1997: 67 ); Gutmann and Thompson (1996: 4 ); Manin (1987: 359 ); Martí (2006: 22 ). 2 Chambers (2013: 201–220 ); Dryzek (2010b: 6
Contesting Paradigms in Society’s Poverty Alleviation and Development Arena
Theoretical Debates on Agency
Sunday Paul Chinazo Onwuegbuchulam and Khondlo Mtshali
private property. Hunt and Sherman (1986: 42) note that for Classical Liberals ‘economic well-being depended on the capacity of an economy to produce. Productive capacity depended, in turn, on accumulation of capital and division of labor’. Here
Patrick Cockburn
discussion in home-owners’ favour. Critics of the new law see this rhetoric of ‘rights’ and ‘home’ as a cynical veil disguising a political and economic agenda that aims to remove any obstacles to the use of housing as a locus for capital investment ( Fox O
Relational Ethics and Partiality
A Critique of Thad Metz’s ‘Towards an African Moral Theory’
Motsamai Molefe
of Philosophy 24 : 369 – 387 . Metz , T. 2009 . ‘ African and Western Moral Theories in Bioethical Context ’, Developing World Bioethics 10 : 49 – 58 . Metz , T. 2010 . ‘ Human Dignity, Capital Punishment and an African Moral Theory
Monique Deveaux
dramatically undercut the equal political voice of some participants in political deliberation, just as surely as it benefits those with greater economic, social, and political capital. Not everyone’s deliberative contributions are equal, then, nor are they
The Future of Representative Politics
On Tormey, Krastev and Rosanvallon
Mihail Evans
: Verso . Piketty , T. 2014 . Capital in the Twenty-First Century . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press . 10.4159/9780674369542 Rosanvallon , P. 1998 . Le peuple introuvable . Paris : Gallimard . Rosanvallon , P. 2000 . La démocratie
Neither Shadow nor Spectre
Populism as the Ideological Embodiment of the Democratic Paradox
Anthony Lawrence Borja
anchored in the ideals of social harmony and state power. Hence, Ranis (1979: 328) states that for Perón the ‘state maintains for itself the authority to decide all conflicts between capital and labor. The state in its capacity as arbiter has the