Participatory democracy refers to an organizational form in which decision making is decentralized, nonhierarchical, and consensus oriented. It can be contrasted with bureaucracy, in which decision making is centralized, hierarchical, and based on a formal division of labor, as well as with majority vote. Participatory democratic organizations have been a prominent feature of many progressive m...

The aim of this paper is to describe the early stages of Mexican nuclearization that took place in contact with radioisotopes. This history requires a multilayered narrative with an emphasis in North-South asymmetric relations, and in the value of education and training in the creation of international asymmetrical networks. Radioisotopes were involved in exchanges with the United States since ...

Based on a concept of human rights commitment that includes both a cognitive (rejection of human rights restrictions) and an affective component (concern for the victims of human rights violations), the present paper uses LatentClass Analysis in order to differentiate different forms of consistent and inconsistent human rights orientations, and relates them to participants’ assessments of the I...

Nuclear criticism theorizes culture as the site of struggle between ideological nanatives seeking authority over the meaning of nuclear symbols. Following the end of the cold war, various groups have conducted this stnlggle through public discourse about U.S. nuclear weapons organizations. This paper examines symbolic conflict over the history and future of one such organization, the Los Alamos...

This article discusses Japan’s struggle to push its military capabilities become more active in security issues since the reelection of Shinzo Abe 2012. During this time, Japanese defense policy faced great challenges due restriction constitution pacifism (Article 9) and fact that opposed idea militarism or ‘remilitarization’ initiated by political leaders, mainly Abe. However, Chinese presence...

The members of the Hamburg Circle: W. Stapel (the leading figure), H. Bogner, A.E. Günther, G. are usually attributed to ‘young conservative’ trend conservative revolution in Weimar Republic. main platform their expression was Deutsches Volkstum, a monthly published between 1898 and 1938. activists circle opposed realities Republic, negating foundations democratic liberal society as it did not ...