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Symbols and reasons in democratization: cultural sociology meets deliberative democracy
We develop an account of societal democratization that synthesizes cultural sociology and deliberative democracy. Cultural sociologists emphasize the...
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Trust as foundation and endangerment of democracy
What are the consequences of lies for democracy? Contrary to a widespread assumption, they often do not lead to a loss of trust in politicians and...
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Does Social Media Penetration Enhance Democratic Institutions? Evidence from Varieties of Democracy Data
We examine whether social media enhances democracy using cross-sectional data from 145 countries. We used Facebook penetration as a proxy for social...
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Tragedy: Resource Curse, Democracy and Income Inequality
This study utilized instrumental variable techniques and the Driscoll-Kraay estimator to examine the effect of democracy and natural resources on...
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Citizen Science in Deliberative Systems: Participation, Epistemic Injustice, and Civic Empowerment
In this paper, we bring together the literature on citizen science and on deliberative democracy and epistemic injustice. We argue that citizen...
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Discursive Theory of Democracy
The discursive theory of democracy attempts to base democracy on the relationship between civil society, the public sphere, discourse, and formal...
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Caring for Country as Deliberative Policymaking
Since the historic Mabo judgment and the recognition of native title, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have sought to reclaim their...
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Community Conversations: deliberative democracy, education provision and divided societies
How can Community Conversations be used to give communities a voice in policy decisions? This paper is a response to the challenge of engaging...
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Democracy, News Media, and Religion
This chapter sets the ground and provides broader legitimacy for the proposed democratic approach to newspaper religion reporting and the questions...
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Acceptable Hierarchies: Epistemic Democracy in Europe and the Middle East
The people can tolerate elitists’ claims to be superior on three conditions, relating to distributive justice, open access, and transparent...
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The Gap between Rhetoric and Reality in Community Wellbeing Research: Deliberative Method and the Lens of ‘Pragmatic Complexity’
Growing policymaker interest in community wellbeing puts a premium on knowledge about existing community-level challenges and possible policy...
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Communitarian democracy and its legitimation by the Ecuadorian State—rethinking plurinationality
The 2008 Constitution defined Ecuador as plurinational and intercultural. It legitimizes different forms of participation, through the mechanisms of...
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Food Aid Shocks and Food Insecurity: Does Democracy Matter?
This study investigates the relationship between negative food aid shocks, which occur when food aid falls sharply, and food insecurity. I theorize...
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Participatory Governance Practices at the Democracy-Knowledge-Nexus
Against the background of an increasing dependency of governance on specialized expertise and growing calls for citizen participation, this study...
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Asserting disadvantaged communities’ deliberative agency in a media-saturated society
This article investigates how communities experiencing poverty can exercise their deliberative agency in a media-saturated society. While...
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Party Politics vs. Grievance Politics: Competing Modes of Representative Democracy
As a vast literature on political disaffection, populism, “pitchfork politics,” and the emergence of an “age of anger” testifies, the nature of...
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Citizen Participation and Political Trust in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Machine Learning Approach
This paper advances the understanding of the linkages between trust in government and citizen participation in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)...
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Public Spheres, Media, and Democracy
In an era defined by rapid technological advancement, public spheres are undergoing a profound transformation, adapting to the evolving landscape of...
