The present study aims to understand the role of economic crises capitalism, hate speech and populism in rise extreme right Brazil especially 2018 presidential election. For that, a theoretical-descriptive analysis causes these factors was made according thesis historical institutionalism, making use hypothetical-deductive method better crisis democracy world. Finally, an understanding peculiar...

In this article, we define and provide some history of “critical media literacy” (CML) in education. We then place critical literacy context our current “post-truth” era. Next, describe the consequences adults’ addiction to two decades expanding, omnipresent new explain why we, like countless scholars from myriad disciplines, are sounding alarm about urgent need for a paradigm shift education t...

This article relies on a visual ethnography with young people between 13 and 20 years old. Young were asked to make collages of fictional social media accounts, which are used in this analyse the signification “good” “bad” reputation digital youth culture. It explores how is performed visually aesthetically The aim contribute critical study reputation, it formulates an ethical critique has form...

This paper describes the key role that city authorities and their civil societies should play in mediating the relationship between economic globalization and human development so that cities act not only as engines of growth but also as agents for greater social justice and environmental sustainability. In a globalizing and urbanizing world, urban governments have a much more important role in...

Abstract Solving the great problems of our time will require reimagining capitalism by balancing power free market with capable, democratically accountable government and strong civil society. Changing purpose firm has potential to make this process rebalancing significantly easier. Purpose-driven firms could be catalysts in drive for systemic change supporting transformation within their own i...

In this article, the authors investigate the effects of economic conditions on support for an incumbent regime in a newAfrican democracy. Drawing on two unique data sources fromZambia—the results of a 1,200-respondent postelection survey and a pair of 10,000-household poverty surveys conducted in the same years as that country’s first two posttransition general elections—the authors find eviden...

The paper considers the transformation of the political system as countries pass through the Grand Transition from a poor developing country to a wealthy developed country. In the process most countries change from an authoritarian to a democratic political system. This is shown by using the Gastil democracy index from Freedom House. First, the basic pattern of correlations reveals that a good ...

Should Lebanon abandon the consociational democratic system? This paper attempts to answer the question by examining the pathologies of the current system and then evaluating its strengths, weaknesses, and potential for reform. Theories of consociational democracy and of conflict regulation are used in this analysis. This paper concludes that there is potential for limited reforms that will mak...

This paper is based on a research aimed at investigating celebrity politics using the emerging theories on celebrity capital in the context of an emerging democracy or third wave democracy, Ghana. The research focuses on the role of celebrity endorsement in the 2008 and 2012 election campaigns in Ghana to explore the mechanism of celebrity politics and capital in Ghana. The main aim of this pap...