In “Reactionary Democracy”, Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter frame modern liberal democracy as fundamentally exclusionary. Appeals to democratic principles that both institutionalize normalize political inequality have not only allowed but actively facilitated the rise of “alt-” far-right. book, authors expound “fuzzy” demarcation between “illiberal” “liberal” racism, latter encompassing an adh...

Although scholars emphasise the contentious relationship of populist forces to (liberal) democracy, less attention has been paid whether this extends those who support or oppose parties. This article utilises a public opinion dataset from ten Western European countries analyse how citizens’ conceptions democracy relate behavioural intention vote for against The empirical analysis shows that pos...

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Contents Acknowledgements page vii List of abbreviations ix Introduction 1 1 The question: is 'liberal democracy' good for economic development? 10 1.1 The context 13 1.2 The pro-'liberal democracy' and anti-'liberal democracy' camps: situating the democracy–development debate within the general debate about 'liberal democr...

In the 2016 Bir Zeit University elections Hamas’ women launched two videos in which un-veiled, western-dressed young girls urged viewers to vote for Hamas. The sparked a passionate debate: Religious forces accused of being ‘westernized’ and abandoning norm Islamic modesty; while secular them promoting form women’s empowerment linked their success accommodating religious values ones. debate mirr...

Occupational therapists need to be critical of who teaches, what is taught, how it is taught, how it is applied, and to whom it is taught in the entire education program of prospective occupational therapists. Further, I recommend that occupational therapy educators on campus take the lead in initiating meetings and discussions that facilitate a functional conjoining of occupational therapy pra...

‘Environmental citizenship’ is, like other forms of ‘adjectival citizenship’, a recent invention. The environmental citizen’s life may be rather different from that of the ‘average’ citizen. For example, she will ‘turn off the tap when brushing [her] teeth or washing her face’; ‘walk, ride [her] bike, carpool or use public transport when possible’; ‘shop at second-hand stores and garage sales ....

the present study addresses the influence of iran’s post-revolution political structure on the formation of the country’s translated literature system. it examines the translated anglo-american novels pub-lished under two administrations in power after the islamic revolution: 1) the reformist administra-tion, which was a more liberal, leftist administration, seeking to improve iran’s relations ...