Title:On Cosmopolitan Occupations: The case of the World Tribunal on Iraq
Author(s):CUBUKCU, AycaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Within the tradition of ‘civil society tribunals’, the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) was an unprecedented endeavour in global scale, scope, structure and sophistication. Embedded within the global antiwar movement from 2003 ...
Title:On Legitimacy
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article provides a conceptual analysis of different uses of the term ‘legitimacy’. Rather than attempting to provide a simple ‘definition’ I argue that the meaning of the concept cannot be understood in terms of a ...
Title:On the state of democracy
Author(s):FAUNDEZ, Julio; CRICK, Bernard; WEBB, Paul; WHITE, Aidan; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; LEFTWICH, Adrian; KHAN, Mushtaq H.; FORBATH, William E.; FAUNDEZ, Julio; MCELDOWNEY, John; CORNWALL, Andrea; GOETZ, Anne Marie; BRANDTSTäDTER, Susanne; SCHUBERT, Gunter; COTT, Donna Lee VanDate:2005Type of Publication:Article
Title:One electorate or many? Differences in party preference formation between new and established European democracies
Author(s):VAN DER BRUG, Wouter; FRANKLIN, Mark N.; TÓKA, GáborDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We investigate differences in the factors influencing citizens’ votes between elections conducted in established and new democracies using data collected at the 2004 European Parliament elections, comparing 7 former communist ...
Title:Online Forums and Deliberative Democracy
Author(s):JANSSEN, Davy; KIES, RaphaëlDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The Internet is rapidly becoming a part of the everyday lives of a majority of people in the Western world. People perform various activities on the Internet and one of them is discussing politics and society in so-called ...
Title:Online networks of the Italian and German extreme right
Author(s):CAIANI, Manuela; WAGEMANN, ClaudiusDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article applies instruments of social network analysis to a study of communication networks within the Italian and German extremist right. Web links between organizational websites are used as a proxy. Indeed, extremist ...
Title:Opposition in Italy
Author(s):PIZZORNO, AlessandroDate:1997Type of Publication:Article
Title:Organizing Babylon - On the Different Conceptions of Policy Networks
Author(s):BORZEL, Tanja A.Date:1998Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:A 'Babylonian' variety of policy network concepts and applications can be found in the literature. Neither is there a common understanding of what policy networks actually are, nor has it been agreed whether policy networks ...
Title:Organizing Technologies: Genre Forms of Online Civic Association in Eastern Europe
Author(s):VEDRES, Balazs; BRUSZT, Laszlo; STARK, DavidDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:How do civic associations in Eastern Europe organize themselves online? Based on data collected on 1,585 East European civil society Web sites, the authors identify five emergent genres of organizing technologies: newsletters, ...
Title:The Parameters of Party Systems
Author(s):BARDI, Luciano; MAIR, PeterDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Despite the scepticism that increasingly surrounds their role and standing in contemporary democracies, scholarly interest in political parties continues unabated. But this interest is also proving uneven, with relatively ...
Title:Parliamentary Informatics Projects: Who are their users and what is their impact?
Author(s):OSTLING, AlinaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The past decade has brought a boom of online initiatives that monitor performance of parliaments – a practice commonly referred to as ‘parliamentary informatics’. A recent survey identified 191 organisations monitoring ...
Title:Participatory budgeting in Europe: potentials and challenges
Author(s):SINTOMER, Yves; HERZBERG, Carsten; RÖCKE, AnjaDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The 'transfer' of participatory budgeting from Brazil to Europe has been a highly differentiated process. In Porto Alegre, this innovative methodology enabled democratization and social justice to be articulated. In Europe, ...