Research and scientific explanation about discourse democracy theory of Jurgen Habermas  and studying and evaluating reflection and generalization of his philosophical and epistemological principles are objectives which the researcher follows in this research From this view, there is studied representation of concepts and categories such as cognitive interests, communication action, discoursing...

The purpose of this study is to describe the leadership role Madrasah Principal in improving teacher discipline at MAN 3 Tangerang. focus research why principal's Tangerang not optimal. In used descriptive qualitative whose state nature or natural environment location. found that implementation by head was marked several efforts, including; (a) protection school interests and goals, (b) group c...


 Library collaboration originally involved between 2 (two) libraries or more regardless of whether the used computer assistance telecommunications facilities not. The research method in this study is a qualitative method. Qualitative type that aims to comprehensively understand phenomena experienced by object research, such as behavior, perceptions, motivations, actions, etc., through spe...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect foreign ownership on transfer prices for pharmaceutical companies in Indonesian stock market. When a individual or entity owns majority company, they are referred as shareholders. Instead, Transfer pricing refers practices that mutually agreed upon between related parties. There is special relationship taxpayers when one taxpayer at least 25...

... Democracy is the anti-subordination perspective. ... Some of the most important limits to democracy are not incidental or accidental: they are critical, systemic, structural, and delib erate. ... With the coming to power of successive conservative administra tions pledging a "return to democracy" some aspects of "really existing democracy" have been consolidated while poverty and economic i...

The nascent democracy in Nigeria is plagued with myriad of intrigues, discordant opinions of the political class. The reason is not farfetched. Every political party sees its manifesto and plans of action as the best for the citizenry. They elbow each other in the process of garnering political recognition and vibrancy. Their unhealthy rivalry only heat up the polity. How be it some Nigerians s...

For some time the notion ‘technocracy’ has been, for better or for worse, associated with the functioning of the European Union (EU). But what role do technocratic assumptions play in the EU’s new ‘symbolic’ policy agenda of democracy promotion, if any? Some authors have suggested that ‘depoliticising’ technocratic biases exist in the EU democracy promotion framework, despite its ‘normative’ rh...

Conventional views of African politics imply that Africans’ political opinions are based either on enduring cultural values or their positions in the social structure. In contrast, we argue that Africans form attitudes to democracy based upon what they learn about what it is and does. This learning hypothesis is tested against competing cultural, institutional, and structural theories to explai...

Do superpower interventions to install and prop up political leaders in other countries subsequently result in more or less democracy, and does this effect vary depending on whether the intervening superpower is democratic or authoritarian? While democracy may be expected to decline contemporaneously with superpower interference, the effect on democracy after a few years is far from obvious. Th...

Political theory from its very onset has determined that democracy is inconceivable without a crisis. This applies to the ancient writings of Plato, Aristotle, Polybios to the modern era with writings of Tocqueville, Marx and Max Weber or since the 1970s the leftists Jürgen Habermas (1973) and Claus Offe (1972), the conservative Crozier, Huntington, Watanuki (1975), the leftist NeoSchmittian Ch...