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Background: To achieve the ambition of the energy transition in the built environment, Dutch local governments try to motivate citizens to participate as communities in policy processes. There is a general expectation that such an interactive approach will foster a more rational policy output and will create stronger support from citizens towards policy outcomes. The emphasis put on this output...

Is there anything new to be said about the New Deal? As Ira Katznelson observes at the beginning of Fear Itself, 'we possess hundreds of thematic histories, countless studies of public affairs and abundant biographies of key persons during this time of great historical density'; so 'why present another portrait?', he asks. Part of the answer lies in a resurgence of interest in the 1930s in the ...

This article presents a systematic content analysis of three religious-conservative and two pro-secular newspapers in 1996–2004 in Turkey, and discusses some findings and their implications regarding elite values and democratization: considerable internal pluralism within both religious-conservative and pro-secular elites; general consensus on democracy but not on democratic norms’ application ...

DECONSTRUCTING RADICAL DEMOCRACY Articulation, representation, and being-with-others This paper is concerned with assessing the contribution of deconstruction to democratic theory. It critically considers the usefulness of the conceptual distinction between ‘politics’ and ‘the political’ as a means of interpreting deconstruction’s relation to political questions. In particular, it critically en...

After the ups and downs of cabinet during parliamentary democracy or often referred to as liberal democracy, Soekarno implemented a new concept model since 1959 called guided democracy. Nahdlatul Ulama which at that time was chaired by KH Idham Chalid accepted Soekarno’s concept, NU only Islamic party The purpose writing this article is find out political thoughts in accepting method used prepa...

When people gather to celebrate the contributions of a preeminent scholar like Frank Michelman, the most likely focus of discussion will be the important papers that scholar wrote in years past that have helped define a field and have taken on a canonical status. Frank has certainly written his share of those, and in a number of different areas of legal study. But there is special enjoyment in ...

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, trends in seven different regions converged to change the political landscape of the world: 1) the fall of right-wing authoritarian regimes in Southern Europe in the mid1970s; 2) the replacement of military dictatorships by elected civilian governments across Latin America from the late 1970s through the late 1980s; 3) the decline of authoritarian r...