Promissory representation is the idea that a significant part of representation consists of parties making promises to voters during election campaigns and keeping those promises if they hold enough power to do so after elections. In countries that are highly exposed to globalization, governing parties face significant challenges to fulfilling the ...
Published in Socrates. Rīga Stradiņš University Faculty of Law Electronic Scientific Journal of Law.
The path to the modern democratic model has been lengthy and contentious, culminating in the recognition of civil rights as guarantees of equal social opportunity and legal protection for all, irrespective of race, religion or other personal characteristics. Realising civil rights requires the active engagement of all societal members, including th...
El estallido de la pandemia de la COVID-19 conmocionó a las sociedades de todo el mundo. En su esfuerzo por adaptar sus respuestas a la crisis a sus propias condiciones de supervivencia, los gobiernos tendieron desde el principio a recurrir a argumentos que limitaban la rendición de cuentas frente a la población. Las democracias liberales no fueron...
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
This paper introduces an unsupervised framework that illustrates how insights gathered from opinion surveys regarding the functionality of democracy can be connected to social media messages of politicians on an international scale. By concentrating on the influence of social media messages from elected officials, the study adopts a “top-down” theo...
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
Liberalism advances democratic rights and representation through three principles. First, it seeks to protect individuals from abusive state power. Second, it shares an affinity with the epistemology of the Enlightenment, where an objective world can be discovered and observed. Third, it limits “tyranny of the majority” through civil liberties that...
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
Shadi Hamid proposes “democratic minimalism” as a system and means of governing and rotating power with no prejudice to substantive ideological outcomes. Democratic minimalism is meant to decouple the question of actualizing an ideal society, even a liberal one that provides maximum freedom for the maximum groups of people, from the mechanism of tr...
The aim of the work is to understand and describe the initially observed mechanism, according to which the state does not seem to notice the needs of indigenous women and does not take them into account in institutional and legal solutions. In the work, I indicate to what extent these conditions are conducive to maintaining cultural diversity – in ...
Published in Frontiers in Social Psychology
Concerns have been expressed about a worldwide retreat from liberal democracy and a turn toward more authoritarian forms of government. Along with that concern has come surprise: when the cold war ended, it was widely believed that a new historical era was dawning during which alternatives to Western liberalism would wither away. Influential psycho...
"The administration of financially distressed Central Darling Shire Council and Central Coast Council raise concerns regarding the effective management of insolvent Local Government Authorities (‘LGAs’) in New South Wales and Australia generally. When administrators are appointed to manage LGAs (sometimes for extended periods of time), local commun...
This article surveys the growing field of political demography, which explores the political consequences of structural population change. It underscores the importance of integrating demography and political sociology research to better understand the complex and nuanced relationship between demography and political dynamics. The existing research...
