R apid growth in the reach and influence of global governance arrangements has triggered broad concern among citizens and scholars alike about the lack of democratic accountability in global politics. This important question bears directly on the legitimacy of global governance regimes and on the prospects for democratizing power in the supranational context (Nye 2001). Keohane (2006) sees the ...

The aim of this article is to examine trends democratic backsliding associated with the long standing reform work on regional institutions and policies in Sweden. To end, conceptualized a different manner compared conventional understandings. By doing so, highlights missing aspect research that concerns how well-intended reforms designed strengthen can also harbor non-democratic consequences. I...

Academics and researchers face a challenge of making sense of the role e-democracy plays in the democratic process and with what implications. This requires a deeper understanding of the objectives and assumptions that underpin e-democracy innovations, as well as institutional and technology structures that condition their role in democratic engagement. This paper interprets case study data col...

We show that for quasi-greedy bases in real or complex Banach spaces the error of the thresholding greedy algorithm of order N is bounded by the best N term error of approximation times a function of N which depends on the democracy functions and the quasi-greedy constant of the basis. If the basis is democratic this function is bounded by C logN . We show with two examples that this bound is a...

The article by Labonté, Schram, and Ruckert is a significant and timely analysis of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) policy and the severe threats to public health that it implies for 12 Pacific Rim populations from the Americas and Asia (Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam). With careful and analytic precision t...

A subtle, yet noticeable, shift is occurring in recent debates over the reform of public schooling. In response to the reform reports of 1983 which stressed the need for schools to prepare workers, more recent reports have instead focused upon the preparation of citizens—in particular, the preparation of democratic citizens.* This new wave of proposals echoes a traditional resistance against th...

In this article, I will try, first, to critically assess the approaches to liberatory ethics particularly those developed in early modernity, which aimed at deriving an “objectively” grounded liberatory ethics, second, to explore the reasons why today’s liberatory ethics should avoid both the Scylla of “objective” ethics as well as the Charybdis of irrationalist ethics or unbounded moral relati...

Cryptography is a dual-edged sword. On the one hand, it allows secure electronic communications by legitimate users. On the other hand, it can be used by criminals to thwart law enforcement efforts and by foreign countries to prevent security agencies from gathering intelligence information about these countries. However, the widespread use of cryptography is critical to the establishment of th...