in the poetics of aristotle, art and literature are imitations of reality and all literary elements have objective representation in the real world. following the theories of ferdinand de saussure and roman jakobson and formation of new literary approaches such as structuralism, there existed a modern poetics which didn’t consider literature as an imitation of reality but introduces it as recon...

Inspired by Habermasian critiques of liberalism, supporters of deliberative democracy seek an extension of social democratic institutions to further a reinvigorated communicative rationality against the ‘atomism’ of market processes. This paper offers a critique of deliberative democratic theory from a Hayekian perspective. For Hayek, the case against the social democratic state rests with the ...

In this study, we explore heterogeneity in the relationship between dissatisfaction with democratic representation and voting for a populist party. More specifically, argue that numerous citizens are dissatisfied modern political elites processes, but not all attracted by parties' programmatic appeal. particular, while stealth attitudes also – similar to ideas voters high levels of democracy ho...

lack of public administration theory for islamic republic state in academic, administrative, policy and decision making fields are felt. why, it seems that between the state and public administration are common values. this paper seeks to investigate this issue. for this purpose, using comparative-historical analysis first, the historical relations and correspondence between state and public ad...

Since its inception and subsequent diffusion, the Internet has been lauded as a potent democratizing agent. Using macro-level panel data from 1994 to 2003, this study examined 152 countries and found that increased Internet diffusion was a meaningful predictor of more democratic regimes. This was shown to be most true in developed countries, where nonlinear fixed effects regression models showe...

1 In the liberal concept of a " democratic civil peace " , an idealistic understanding of democratic stabilization and pacification prevails: Democracy is seen to guarantee political stability and social peace by offering comprehensive representation and participation in political decisions while producing outcomes broadly in accordance with the common interest of society. This contrasts with t...

The constitutional and legal status of subjects various federations is the issue considered by many scientists, but area comparative research remains poorly studied. article considers basics features two that are at stage formation as democratic states: Russian Federation Federal Republic Iraq. purpose study to identify common different elements states on their basis a model subject modern, dem...