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Resisting Punitiveness in Europe? Welfare, Human Rights and Democracy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Covering both quantitative and qualitative dimensions of punitiveness, this book focuses on mechanisms of punitiveness that seem to allow room for less punitve choices, especially within a European context: social policies, human rights and a balanced approach to victims' rights and public opinion in constitutional democracies.
The Social Sciences and Democracy Universiteit Gent
How democratic are the social sciences? Can and should they be more so -- what are the promises, what the obstacles? It has been taken for granted that the social sciences benefit everyone, but are all interests served equally well? Can the idea of democracy clarify what goes on in social science between competing approaches? The relation between the social sciences and democracy is one of many questions, not only concerning the democratic ...
Elections to the European Parliament as a challenge for democracy Universiteit Gent
The main motivation for this book came from a long-term debate - yet recently spirited, due to the forthcoming 2014 elections - on the place of the European Parliament in the democratic life of the European Union. The 18 chapters of this volume analyse a wide range of challenges for democracy posed by the EP elections. If we were to make a "word cloud", it would be dominated by keywords such as democratic deficit, legitimacy crisis, low turnout, ...
A radical democratic lens to rejuvenating European Union democracy support : thinking about the political with a capital P Universiteit Gent
Cosmopolitan democracy in times of globalisation Universiteit Gent
Although philosophical discourse on cosmopolitanism has a longstanding tradition, the currently ongoing processes of globalisation force this discourse to strike out on radically new paths. Whereas previously cosmopolitanism often remained a merely philosophical idea, the historical circumstances of 21st century open up politically specific perspectives for bringing it into – or at least closer to – reality. Hence arises the need for a thorough ...
Disinformation and digital media as a challenge for democracy Universiteit Gent Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This book is motivated, to a large extent, by some recent troubling developments in public discourse, namely the developments in information and disinformation practices. From the beginning of history, various and diverse means or channels of communication have been used to inform, misinform (unintentionally) and disinform (deliberately). However, in recent decades, the emergence and development of new information and communications technologies ...
Multi-ethnic democracy as an autoimmune practice: The case of international missions in Kosovo Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article explains how the international project for building multi-ethnic democracy in Kosovo undermines itself by effectively opposing the very concept of democracy. Derrida explained this with ‘autoimmunity’, a term which describes the failed attempt of an organism to recognize its own constituent parts as self, leading to an immune response against its own cells and tissues. Unlike Derrida, I provide that the promotion or the building of ...
European Union democracy assistance : an academic state of play Universiteit Gent
Over the past twenty years, the European Union has been increasingly active in promoting democracy, and consequently so has academic literature on EU democracy assistance, culminating in a vast and diverse collection of concepts, theories and empirical findings. However, despite decades of research and practice, there is yet much confusion about the actual substance of democracy being promoted. In other words, what does the EU promote? Following ...
Public Voice in Privacy Governance: Lessons from Environmental Democracy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Departing from a need to remedy the insufficient participation of stakeholders in the governance of privacy, and in particular in privacy impact assessment (PIA), this paper proposes the adaptation of the so-called environmental democracy, of which the 1998 Aarhus Convention is the most recent and most important formalisation, to the needs and reality of privacy, thus creating the "privacy democracy". Such a framework would comprise three ...