• IFES is planning to support select-university professors in continuing to teach the IFES-designed Democracy: From Theory to Practice civics course during the 2022 spring semester. (ifes.org)
  • His main interest areas include Political Behavior, Political Attitudes, Social and Political Participation in New Democracies, Institutionalization of Party Systems, Mechanisms of Vote Intermediation, and Electoral Accountability. (routledge.com)
  • Co-written with Sabri Ciftci of Kansas State University and Ammar Shamaileh of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, it uses survey data on religious preferences and behavior to scrutinize the attitudes of devout Muslims toward a variety of political/social issues. (ku.edu)
  • Understanding individual attitudes and behavior factors which influence these basic stages will be helpful in stopping civil disturbances. (publicintelligence.net)
  • Trump's behavior is the sort of thing you expect in very weak and young democracies , especially ones that had recently experienced civil war. (vox.com)
  • Since 1994, IFES has conducted 29 nationwide public opinion surveys in the country, examining socio-political issues, and attitudes toward elections and democracy, among other topics. (ifes.org)
  • What are the socio-political consequences of infectious diseases? (naughtons.org)
  • At a time of heightened awareness of infectious diseases, the current findings are important reminders that public health and ecology can have ramifications for socio-political attitudes by shaping how citizens vote and are governed. (naughtons.org)
  • Hence, the political communication system can be regarded as such an institutionalization, as it carries and regulates the ongoing cross-border communication between politics and the media. (iresearchnet.com)
  • How can we as citizens build and maintain a democracy that protects the nation as a whole without undermining individual rights? (facinghistory.org)
  • Parties from across the political spectrum clashed violently in the streets throughout the Weimar era, leaving citizens on edge. (facinghistory.org)
  • As political leaders narrow their focus on protecting their citizens, national solidarity could crowd out international cooperation. (instituteforglobalaffairs.org)
  • The Ability to Limit Destructive Escalation - Democracies must provide citizens with ways to address grievances and resolve disputes that do not escalate conflicts to destructive levels where substantive debate is replaced with mutual hatred and a desire to hurt one another. (crinfo.com)
  • The first paper is concerned with the notion that democracy itself has an impact on taxation by extending influence to previously excluded groups of poor citizens. (lu.se)
  • They have over seven decades forged a distinct way of life, a world view, legal and political systems, liberal democracy, and attitudes that like Hong Kong's 7.55 million residents, are radically different from the mainland's. (punchng.com)
  • The pace of change, especially in expanding political rights and social freedoms, made many Germans uneasy and sparked backlash against the changes. (facinghistory.org)
  • Paradoxically, the dynamics of the democratized political system appears to have created a polarization of Korean social values and attitudes. (isdp.eu)
  • Putting social science on the back burner may have important ramifications, as students are not asked to think critically about the American political system and their role within it. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Of particular interest to scholars, researchers, and policy makers involved with social science education and political socialization. (bloomsbury.com)
  • When an economy is organized with a few elites controlling everything, then all political, social, and educational institutions will reflect their attitudes and opinions. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • His latest book, titled "Beyond Piety and Politics: Religion, Social Relations, and Public Preferences in the Middle East and North Africa," attempts to understand the depth and variety of political attitudes held by people who consider themselves pious Muslims. (ku.edu)
  • Both historians believed the past could inform and instruct the present because they assumed that human nature would remain constant in its passions, weaknesses, and interests despite changes in the political, social, or technological environment. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Promoting democracy and political freedom in the Middle East was believed to be the way to eliminate the political, social, and economic dysfunctions that presumably breed Islamic terrorism. (frontpagemag.com)
  • The problem has always been that this cluster of attitudes never found any meaningful outlet for practical social or political expression. (thedemocraticstrategist.org)
  • For instance, if women are to have equal opportunities to participate and represent themselves fully at all levels of decision making, interventions must be designed to encourage men to loosen their grip and relinquish some of their economic, political and social power. (idea.int)
  • The findings are published in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology. (naughtons.org)
  • According to theoretical considerations, integration of two social systems comes about if the exchange processes between them are institutionalized. (iresearchnet.com)
  • Hence, the social construction of public opinion on the part of political communication actors can be understood as the input side of the political communication system. (iresearchnet.com)
  • This occurs, in part, because they are less likely to openly express racial negativity, adding an additional wrinkle to understanding the political consequences of racial diversity: Overall, whites living in a diverse area will increase the political importance of negative racial attitudes, but this effect will be more difficult to detect among those most sensitive to their social context. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Nearly four years ago in a column for the Brennan Center , I warned, "By 2016 or 2020, social media will have replaced television as the engine that drives political persuasion. (brennancenter.org)
  • Part of this cavalier attitude about social media was rooted in a form of liberal bias. (brennancenter.org)
  • Main impact on turnout had sources in terms of political experience (age, social integration as measured by urbanization). (cas.cz)
  • The recent growth of interest in political matters in Australia is by no means a sign of social health. (wikiquote.org)
  • Democracy has done nothing to help society to unanimity, nothing to aid the individual to a sense of social function. (wikiquote.org)
  • Since you've been blocked on the political front, wouldn't it make sense to increase demands on the social front, given the enormous inequalities in Hong Kong society, and the wretched conditions in which the poor and the weak live in the city, while billionaires flaunt their wealth at the top? (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • In the contexts where we were situated, homosexuality - both as a concept and as a social and political phenomenon - played a role that was clearly different to the one we were used to. (lu.se)
  • Through environmental education, we seek to make people aware of the problems of the natural and social environment from their school education in childhood to generate values, new attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs aimed at caring for the environment and learning new relationships between people. (bvsalud.org)
  • Mediante la educación ambiental se busca concientizar a las personas sobre los problemas del ambiente natural y social desde su formación escolar en la niñez para generar valores, nuevas actitudes, comportamientos y creencias orientadas al cuidado del medio ambiente y el aprendizaje de nuevas relaciones entre las personas. (bvsalud.org)
  • This paper is the first study that draws on a range of primary sources not consulted before to research the political and social contributions of the triumvirate during the period of 1937-1953. (lu.se)
  • These links have shaped and been shaped by religious, political and social dynamics in the Middle East. (lu.se)
  • We join with others to tackle the most pressing issues for democracy and elections today. (ifes.org)
  • In the second 'zone of transition' are countries where the communists were strong and the liberal opposition weak, a situation that produced a clear-cut victory in the first competitive elections held to the almost unchanged former political elites. (rferl.org)
  • A recent Pew study found, in the United States, "46 percent of those aged 18 to 29 would prefer to be governed by experts" and a study by Mounk and Foa in the Journal of Democracy reported one quarter of American millennials agreed that "choosing leaders through free elections is unimportant. (instituteforglobalaffairs.org)
  • Should we get rid of elections to save democracy? (uni-bremen.de)
  • Elections which are imposed by a de facto regime that represses and violates the human and political rights of the citizenry would only validate nationally and internationally the oligarchic dictatorship and secure the continuation of a system which marginalises and exploits popular sectors in order to guarantee the privileges of a few. (links.org.au)
  • 7. To the friendly nations and peoples of the world, we call on you to maintain political pressure to overthrow the military dictatorship imposed by oligarchy and imperialism, as well as commit to recognise neither the illegitimate elections of November 29 nor the spurious authorities who seek to pass as representatives elected by the people. (links.org.au)
  • The negative consequences are visible in the continuity of former authoritarian politics, which in the short term produces some relative political stability, and a reasonable economic performance (of course, in comparison with much lower regional standards) based on 'socialist' regulation of economic 'laws. (rferl.org)
  • Specifically, when disease infection risk is salient or prevalent, authoritarian attitudes can emerge that seek to avoid and reject foreign outgroups while favoring homogenous, familiar ingroups. (naughtons.org)
  • 240,000), elevated regional levels of infectious pathogens were related to more authoritarian attitudes on three geographical levels: across U.S. metropolitan regions, U.S. states, and cross-culturally across 47 countries. (naughtons.org)
  • Anti-egalitarian in nature, it rejects the liberal democratic basis of U.S. governance, and opposes both the conservative and liberal wings of the country's political mainstream. (wikipedia.org)
  • Another article published in the 1950s in The Western Political Quarterly also reflects his democratic commitment, arguing in favor of improved local government. (wikipedia.org)
  • Instead of prodding foreign governments to be more democratic, the United States could focus on being a better exemplar of democracy. (instituteforglobalaffairs.org)
  • Proposals have been made that the United Nations should adopt the same form of democratic system as used in most of its member states. (federalunion.org.uk)
  • However, and this is particularly the case with regard to the Stop the War marches of 2002-2003, protest marches typically happen because people feel that the traditional democratic methods - voting, lobbying of local MP's, political party activism - have simply failed to work. (sirc.org)
  • The main difference between democratic states and nondemocratic mass-participatory systems lies in the free competition between political parties and other organizations characteristic of democracy. (uni-bremen.de)
  • But the forces of arrogant ideology, of undoubting righteousness, of hatred for difference can exploit the tolerance of democratic systems to disrupt them from within. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • 3. Now more than ever it is clear that the exercise of participatory democracy through the installation of a Constituent Assembly is not just a non-negotiable right but also the only way to provide the Honduran people with a democratic and inclusive political system. (links.org.au)
  • A democratic emergency," writes Brendan Nyhan , a political scientist at Dartmouth College. (vox.com)
  • These are places where key political actors don't accept the rules of the democratic game and are willing to take up arms if they're defeated. (vox.com)
  • But instead of abandoning democratic, power-with principles in favor of a power-over approach (with all the inherent dangers listed above), we believe that we should work together using power-with approaches to upgrade and improve democracy so that it comes closer to fulfilling its promises. (crinfo.com)
  • It provides it with irrefutable arguments concerning the predilection of a fringe of Muslims for a caliphate regime and political systems that fall far short of the criteria for democracy. (pij.org)
  • Even if today's West has ceased to be the Christianity of the Middle Ages and is now largely secularized, its attitude towards the Muslim world remains tinged with the animosity and strife that have marked the shared history of both Muslims and Christians around the Mediterranean since the inception of Islam. (pij.org)
  • From the standpoint of research and studies of Muslims, the misunderstandings of these individuals comes from essentializing the role that religion plays in their lives," said Michael Wuthrich, associate professor of political science at the University of Kansas. (ku.edu)
  • While contemporary Baptists are now inextricably linked to political views, Muslims are linked even more so. (ku.edu)
  • In an effort to explore complex and nuanced attitudes of devout Muslims, Wuthrich and his co-authors aimed for assembling empirical evidence rather than anecdotal stories of individuals. (ku.edu)
  • Second, the article highlights the role that the Iraqi Shi'i intellectual milieu played in incorporating key Islamist concepts into Shi'i political thought. (lu.se)
  • Supporters of different Shii-Islamist political parties have established transnational links connecting diasporic communities with their countries of origin. (lu.se)
  • The Weimar Republic, the post-World War I German government named for the German city where it was formed, lasted more than 14 years, but democracy never found firm footing. (facinghistory.org)
  • Professor Paul Bookbinder describes the "noble experiment" of democracy in the Weimar Republic. (facinghistory.org)
  • An investigation of the Weimar Republic not only provides a crucial foundation for understanding the Nazi era that followed it but can also serve as a warning and a guide for democracies today. (facinghistory.org)
  • The extraordinary democracy of the German Weimar Republic in the 1920s allowed the Nazis to grow strong enough to overthrow it. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • At the same time, the investigation of political communication would fall short if it were studied only in terms of the short-term, issue-related behaviors of actors in areas such as election campaigns, political public relations, newsmaking, or public opinion. (iresearchnet.com)
  • So actually, my secret answer would be 'no' because I don't think anybody's beliefs can be completely disentangled from their political perspectives - even an atheist. (ku.edu)
  • A long-standing debate in political psychology considers whether individuals update their beliefs and attitudes in the direction of evidence or grow more confident in their convictions when confronted with counter-attitudinal arguments. (columbia.edu)
  • Liberal democracies have come under attack in recent years in many parts of the world, as many people feel that the promises made by these systems-prosperity, freedom, respect for diverse identities and beliefs-have not been fulfilled. (crinfo.com)
  • In an era defined as 'post-truth', where personal beliefs and emotions are often more persuasive than objective facts, PRRPs could be expected to politicize crucial issues in today's democracies in their discourse by using conspiracy theories. (unil.ch)
  • b) the analysis of the conspiratorial beliefs and ideas among the public and their determinants, as well as the relationship between such conspiratorial ideas, on the one hand, and populist attitudes and support for populist parties, on the other hand. (unil.ch)
  • At the same time, the political movements which have long been in the process of revolutionising the religious and political beliefs with regard to sexuality should be considered as emerging from Africa. (lu.se)
  • A far better solution is to "fix" liberal democracy so that it actually does deliver on its promise of prosperity and "liberty and justice for all. (crinfo.com)
  • Supporters of this view frequently invoked the transformation of Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union from aggressive tyrannies into peaceful democracies to argue for nation building in the Muslim Middle East. (frontpagemag.com)
  • The working premise is that while many political attitudes formed during adolescent socialization are open to change throughout one's life, latent attitudes that are not salient and, thus, are not challenged with new information provided by media or other communications are more likely to persist into adulthood. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Contributions in this volume examine the time trends of affective polarisation over this period of intense political instability and crisis and evaluate the potential factors that might explain its dynamics. (routledge.com)
  • It also looks at some potential behavioural consequences of affective polarisation such as the change and dynamics of party system, turnout, and support for radical right-wing parties (RRPs). (routledge.com)
  • Introduction: Affective Polarisation in Times of Political Instability and Conflict. (routledge.com)
  • However, the general tendency is to take such a view at face value and to regard it as representative of a prevalent Muslim attitude, instead of placing it within its proper context. (pij.org)
  • Though recent studies have shown that instances of the latter tendency, which scholars have termed attitude polarization and "belief backfire," are rarely observed in settings involving hot-button issues or viral misinformation, we know surprisingly little about how participants respond to information targeting deeply held attitudes, a key condition for triggering attitude polarization. (columbia.edu)
  • We fail to recover evidence consistent with attitude polarization across three studies. (columbia.edu)
  • Democracy is a system in which liberally minded elites rule, and the masses participate just enough to make it impossible for their rulers to ignore their interests. (uni-bremen.de)
  • They have become a critical element in organizing and activating communities in response to some of the most pressing issues of our time, bridging radical and populist movements, political dissent and ascension, and encouraging civic engagement and empowerment. (sfmoma.org)
  • Destructive conflicts between competing populist movements also commonly result in political dysfunction and stalemate, intense intergroup hostility, and sometimes violence. (crinfo.com)
  • In finding the answer to the question of why so many people currently support populist ideas and populist politicians, a first avenue to take is so obvious that it is often ignored: one should not a priori dismiss the charges anti-political establishment actors formulate. (uni-bremen.de)
  • The fourth dimension of the political communication system implies the role definitions and norms of the actors such as politicians and journalists. (iresearchnet.com)
  • This updated, 2nd edition of the Handbook book covers a range of political actors that use Islam to advance their cause. (lu.se)
  • The socially aware proletariat begins to doubt the words of the authorities, believing in his heart that the miserable condition which he suffers is caused by the Capitalism system and the absence of a Socialist order. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • This is particularly relevant for more abstract parts of the system since those types of attitudes are unlikely to be challenged through the mass media throughout one's life. (bloomsbury.com)
  • The attempt to develop a broader framework of analysis for political communication that focuses on the whole system rather than on single aspects also reflects the need for a more abstract formulation of processes of political communication that lends itself to comparative analysis. (iresearchnet.com)
  • Ever since September 11, 2001, the question of the connections between Islam and democracy, between Islam and terrorism and, more generally, violence has been very much on the agenda. (pij.org)
  • We saw the sharpest increases in Egypt, where 11% more people hold positive views of the U.S., and about 20% more believe America's democracy "sets a positive example for the world. (instituteforglobalaffairs.org)
  • As with last year, opposition to President Trump and resentment about America's expansive foreign policy were the two most significant drivers of anti-American attitudes in the countries we polled. (instituteforglobalaffairs.org)
  • To be sure, I neither had the imagination nor the dystopian temperament to have imagined Russia deliberately trying to undermine democracy on Facebook or put Donald Trump in the White House. (brennancenter.org)
  • George Hawley, a political scientist specializing in the U.S. far-right, disagreed with this approach, noting that using terms like "white supremacist" in place of "alt-right" conceals the way that alt-right differed from other far-right movements. (wikipedia.org)
  • Their spokesmen do not make any secret of their socialist attitudes and they consider the constitutional talks as a farce undertaken by South African puppets. (reason.com)
  • During the recent foreign policy crises over Syria's use of chemical weapons and the Obama administration's negotiations with Iran, the Munich analogy was heard from both sides of the political spectrum. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Protests and demonstrations can be traced to the political spectrum. (publicintelligence.net)
  • Alfred Diamant (September 25, 1917 - May 11, 2012) was an Austrian-born American political scientist. (wikipedia.org)
  • Yale political scientist Tim Snyder argued that "it's no surprise that millennials don't support democracy" because they reasonably anticipate they will be worse off than their parents. (instituteforglobalaffairs.org)
  • The educator and activist's wrongful imprisonment for murder in 1970 helped transform attitudes about the U.S. prison system and led to the development of several organizing groups that still exist today. (sfmoma.org)
  • And the emphasis which democracy places upon political methods tends to transform mere sporadic acts of sabotage into an organized conspiracy against society. (wikiquote.org)
  • Do voters have confidence in our election system? (savedemocracyaz.com)
  • There was overwhelming support across all categories for a system where top state and local election officials would be required to take an oath to function in a nonpartisan manner. (savedemocracyaz.com)
  • This study of Arizona voters found there is a good deal of common ground regarding our election system and voters are more aligned in their views than partisan politics would suggest. (savedemocracyaz.com)
  • These findings provide a roadmap on how a nonpartisan election system could further enhance voter confidence in Arizona. (savedemocracyaz.com)
  • But if I as a low-tech columnist with nostalgia for land-line phone calls could glimpse the worrisome shape of future campaigns, it remains surprising that so few in our political system grasped the sinister underpinnings of the 2016 election. (brennancenter.org)
  • That was certainly the predominant attitude coming out of the 2012 campaign as veterans of Barack Obama's digital team bragged about how they harnessed Facebook while Mitt Romney's vaunted computerized national vote-tracking system called Project Orca crashed on Election Day. (brennancenter.org)
  • Another reason why almost no one sounded the alarm bells before Election Night 2016 has to do with the hidebound nature of political journalism. (brennancenter.org)
  • Volatility in the answers about the party closeness is influenced by the short-term (election caimpaign) and long-term factors (electoral systém, role of president in the system, support for democracy). (cas.cz)
  • Science was not allowed to contradict political ideology. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • But both systems shared this enclosed structure of self-protection, where deviation was treason, where facts were subordinated to rigid ideology, where questioning was punished by exclusion. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • The study, claimed to be the largest yet to investigate links between pathogen prevalence and ideology, reveals a strong connection between infection rates and strains of authoritarianism in public attitudes, political leadership and lawmaking. (naughtons.org)
  • Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers ideology and challenges to democracy, both at home and abroad. (vox.com)
  • Thus, this period is crucial for our understanding of the effects of political institutions and ideology on policy making. (lu.se)
  • The format of the political poster was catapulted as a tool in the mid 1960s, quickly expanding nationally and internationally across diverse topics," Becker explains. (sfmoma.org)
  • There are both formal procedures through laws, rules, regulations, as wel as deliberate political actions and security measures that undermine human rights work, and block and curtail a vibrant democracy. (lu.se)
  • In recent years, right-wing populist radical parties (PRRP) have enjoyed increasing success in European political systems, largely thanks to their calls for limiting immigration and fighting globalization. (unil.ch)
  • Diamant analyzed the role of Conservative political catholicism in Austria and its contribution to the rise of the clerical fascist Dollfuss regime. (wikipedia.org)
  • This enabled it to offer and carry out its own agenda and priorities in transforming the previous political regime. (rferl.org)
  • 4. We denounce the complicit attitude of the US government, maneuvering to stall the crisis and now showing its true intention to give validity to the coup regime, thereby ensuring that the successor government will be docile in the face of the interests of transnational companies and their goal of regional control. (links.org.au)
  • These attitudinal dimensions are regime legitimacy, institutional disaffection, individual disaffection and political dissatisfaction. (cas.cz)
  • The notion of political communication systems reflects the adaptation of political systems analysis to a theoretical framework of political communication. (iresearchnet.com)
  • Explore the efforts to build a democracy in Germany in the 1920s, and examine the misunderstandings, myths, and fears that often undercut those efforts. (facinghistory.org)
  • Hong Kong society is deeply conservative-even lower-class attitudes are right-wing. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • Fareed Zakaria presciently wrote an essay "The Rise of Illiberal Democracy" in Foreign Affairs in 1997, and since then, a wave of democratically elected leaders has claimed popular support as they suppress individual liberties in the name of stability and security. (instituteforglobalaffairs.org)
  • Even when the questions include enough information for most people to formulate opinions, the questions end up probing general attitudes about Wall Street and the banking and financial industries rather than gauging the level of support for any specific agenda or strategy of the protests. (thedemocraticstrategist.org)
  • Revolution or civil war is the only outcome of the present irreconcilable attitude of Australian political parties. (wikiquote.org)
  • Questions on the working of Australian democracy continue to find low levels of trust in parliament and political parties. (honesthistory.net.au)
  • A situation where the West is understood as the civilised free zone for homosexuality, while Africa, which has long been constructed as the antithesis of enlightenment and democracy, is attributed with an attitude of strong, popularly established and often aggressive aversion in Western media stories on African homophobia. (lu.se)
  • Will Crosby, 63, a veteran political organizer in Chicago's bruising electoral battles, is worried that the black community will be caught flat-footed in the 2016 presidential campaign. (cc-ds.org)
  • In countries using majoritarian/plurality electoral systems the left relies more on income tax, and in countries using proportional representation systems the left relies more on consumption tax. (lu.se)
  • Crosby says attitudes are easily changed when they hear Sanders' political spiel and his policy prescriptions, especially on reforming the criminal justice system and curbing wealth inequality. (cc-ds.org)
  • Snyder pointed to growing economic insecurity and inequality - as well as new voter suppression laws - as sources of frustration with democracy. (instituteforglobalaffairs.org)
  • While racial attitudes have made enormous progress in the 50 years since the Civil Rights Act became law, racism and inequality are still powerful forces in our society. (lse.ac.uk)
  • This chapter explores Germany in the years preceding the Nazis' ascension to power by highlighting efforts to turn a fledgling republic into a strong democracy and examining the misunderstandings, myths, and fears that often undercut those efforts. (facinghistory.org)
  • The British system of government has for many years been one of the most centralised in Europe. (federalunion.org.uk)
  • The following year he joined in the Christian Democracy , and three years later, at only 19 years old, he graduated in law and started a university career as professor of constitutional law at the faculty of jurisprudence of the University of Sassari . (wikipedia.org)
  • Since their attitudes develop over a number of years, it is thought to be a changing process. (publicintelligence.net)
  • The Umbrella Movement made it much more widely accepted as an instrument of change-in my view, as the only route to change in the political system, after twenty years of futile agitation of a conventional sort. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • The argument that is most insistently presented by conservatives during the recent years' sexual-political development in Africa is that homosexuality is not African, but something the imperialist colonial powers are trying to impose on Africa to destroy the continent from within. (lu.se)
  • By analogy with the political culture research (Almond & Verba 1963), a political communication system can be mapped out along four dimensions . (iresearchnet.com)
  • Democracy, in contrast, is intended to be a way to fairly and nonviolently resolve the myriad disputes between different people's, organizations', and groups' interests and needs and produce laws, regulations, policies and individual decisions that reflect the will of the majority, while also protecting the rights and vital interests of minorities. (crinfo.com)
  • The contextual factors beyond organizations, the political, cultural, economic factors in this case, function as modifiers that altered the attribution generated by basic crisis types. (lu.se)
  • We conclude by discussing implications for the study of political cognition and the measurement of attitudes. (columbia.edu)
  • We explore multiple foundational sources for critical education including Marxism and critical theory, but also democracy and anarchism. (ubc.ca)
  • So we included a battery of questions to understand how liberal or illiberal people's attitudes were around things like media censorship, the preferences of political minorities, political protest, and immigration of particular religious groups. (instituteforglobalaffairs.org)
  • We should ask ourselves whether these questions - or rather accusations - are pertinent, and whether Islam as a religion is effectively at the source of the obvious lack of democracy in many Muslim countries and, particularly, in the Arab world. (pij.org)
  • In everyday life as well as in large and small, political and economic contexts, we experienced an expectation that we would act in accordance with our skin colour, which made our knowledge of historical and contemporary colonialism insistently concrete. (lu.se)
  • When we measure racial attitudes in explicit terms-such as the expressed belief that blacks are biologically inferior to whites-empirical evidence shows that racism has decreased. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The issues these posters represent are as varied as the tactics they use to express them, but all share a skill for rousing political imagination. (sfmoma.org)
  • Managing political issues is a major function of the politics-media interface. (iresearchnet.com)
  • The lack of trust in the political system may in part reflect the failure to tackle socially progressive issues supported by a majority of electors. (honesthistory.net.au)
  • The methods of "democracy," far from providing a means of solving the industrial problem, have proved entirely inadequate to the task. (wikiquote.org)
  • While they share the ultimate vision of establishing a political system governed by Islam, the tactics and methods can be very different. (lu.se)
  • See our timely study guide on the struggle for democracy in the U.S. by clicking HERE . (cc-ds.org)
  • It manifestly provides its detractors with a clean conscience to implement their policies of hegemony and exploitation under the guise of the struggle of good against evil, and the propagation of democracy, liberty, and human rights. (pij.org)
  • Taxation is a key activity of any state and a constant point of political struggle. (lu.se)
  • Within countries and regions across the world the magnitude of the attitudes differ, reflecting factors such as culture and religion, the rural-urban divide, socio-economic status, the political and legal system. (idea.int)
  • The project focuses four countries - Switzerland, Austria, Italy and France - where such parties have been long established and particularly successful but differ in relevance in their respective political system. (unil.ch)
  • PIJ.ORG: Islam and Democracy: Are They Compatible? (pij.org)
  • Islam and Democracy: Are They Compatible? (pij.org)
  • It is equally true that, throughout history, political power in the countries of Islam did not usually allow for citizen participation in civic affairs. (pij.org)
  • Like, what's the relationship between Islam and democracy? (ku.edu)
  • The fourth paper, which is coauthored with Johannes Lindvall, contrasts political investments, of which taxation is one example, with short- term crisis management. (lu.se)
  • As examples of such political dynamics, Bunce mentions Poland, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic. (rferl.org)
  • Relationships between men and women and the way in which masculinity is defined are at the heart of many challenges for inclusive democracy building processes and institutions. (idea.int)
  • Within this radical group, there are those who do not want to change the system, but want to destroy the system completely in order to build a new system. (publicintelligence.net)
  • The last and most common transition pattern in the region applies to those countries where neither the liberal opposition nor the former political elite (communists) were in a position to secure victory for themselves. (rferl.org)
  • Activists for civil rights have been called communists and anarchists, whose political activities are thus illegitimate. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • In 1996, roughly the first 500 of these reactions were published by Greenwood Press as Native American Political Systems and the Evolution of Democracy: An Annotated Bibliography . (ratical.org)
  • And having a friend or family member in the U.S. or consuming American cultural products positively influenced pro-American attitudes in most cases. (instituteforglobalaffairs.org)
  • American democracy is cracking. (savedemocracyaz.com)
  • He has focused not on the crumbling critical infrastructure of American democracy, but on the benefits of better bridges and faster Internet. (naughtons.org)
  • The two biggest moments of the first 2020 Biden-Trump presidential debate , when put together, reveal just how much danger American democracy is in. (vox.com)
  • These were both moments when Trump was asked to explicitly affirm baseline principles of American democracy, the kind of thing so basic you can't imagine them being asked in a previous presidential debate. (vox.com)