Liberal democracy 3.0; de Stephen P. Turner

Public Service and Liberal Democracy

The debate on television’s "public service"obligations can only make full sense if integrated in the broader context of the debate on the best political model for society. In fact, the classic "public service"rationale is based in a normative conception of good and in a suspicious view of the average citizen that is largely tributary of a Platonic or Elitist approach to the political organizati...

Subjective Measures of Liberal Democracy

Using democracy in empirical work requires accurate measurement. Yet, most policy and academic research presupposes the accuracy of available measures. This article explores judgespecific measurement errors in cross-national indicators of liberal democracy. The authors evaluate the magnitude of these errors in widely used measures of democracy and determine whether their results replicate durin...

Confidences de Salon: Stephen Holgate

Breathe | September 2016 | Volume 12 | No 3 293 @ERSpublications ERS Science Council Chair, Stephen Holgate, gives an insight into his professional and private life http://ow.ly/ZVZA300QGWN ERS Science Council Chair, Stephen Holgate, is Medical Research Council Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, UK. He undertook his medical training in London befor...

� Liberal Democracy , Secularization , and � The End of Metaphysics �

Alexander P. Turner, PhD (1940–2016)

Alex passed away on April 15 from complications due to esophageal cancer with metastasis to the lung and liver. He was 76 years old. Alex Turner earned a PhD from the University of Oklahoma and began his career in medical physics with his entry as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Texas MD Anderson Hospital in the early 1970s. His contemporaries include Bernie Hranitzky, Walter Grant,...