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Emotions and political rhetoric: Perception of danger, group conflict and the biopolitics of fear
2016
Abstract In the present article I shall argue that human emotion is multifaceted and has a cognitive dimension in virtue of its intricate connections with beliefs, memories, imagination, and other products of human rationality. Human emotion also has a social and political dimension. When we think about fear we cannot characterize it as a mere stimulus-response phenomenon: it is, due to its cognitive facet, more complex and related to our ideas about survival and well-being. This leaves fear exposed to political rhetoric, and thus to political manipulation. Fear can be aroused, guided and nourished amongst the population, giving rise to a biopolitics of fear. In this article, I will conside…
2018
A vigorous anti-nuclear movement emerged in Germany in the mid 1990s, when spent nuclear fuel elements began to be transported to the interim storage facility in Gorleben, Lower Saxony. Resistance ...
The local appropriation of democracy: an analysis of the municipal elections in Parakou, Republic of Benin, 2002–03
2006
Ever since the ‘democratic renewal’ of 1989–90, Benin has been regarded as a model democracy in the African context. The holding of local elections in 2002–03 can be seen as the culmination of this turn to democracy. Donors attach high expectations to decentralisation and local democracy. Based on an empirical analysis of municipal elections in Parakou, the country's third-largest city, the paper tries to gauge whether these expectations have been realised. The paper argues that while multi-party democracy has been instituted under considerable pressure from the outside, the particular form it has taken derives instead from rationales of national and local politics which go back to the late…
Il diritto di partecipazione nell’esperienza delle Comunità Autonome Spagnole e le esigenze di proceduralizzazione degli strumenti partecipativi.
2020
La forte e ormai sistemica crisi delle democrazie rappresentative contemporanee ha costituito un terreno fertile per la proliferazione di modelli rimediali, sviluppati sotto l’egida della democrazia partecipativa e dell’ideale deliberativo. Nonostante la casistica ricomprenda strumenti di diversa natura, si è lontani dall’affermazione di una disciplina organica della partecipazione. Si propone, dunque, l’analisi della disciplina adottata a livello autonomico in Spagna. In tale contesto, le soluzioni adottate a livello substatale in Spagna esprimono una evidente strategia uniformatrice che ha consentito di individuare e delineare un diritto autonomico di partecipazione cittadina. Tale soluzi…
Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy, New York 1942
2008
Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950) lehrte an den Universitaten Czernowitz, Graz und Bonn. 1932 folgte nach zwei Gastprofessuren ein Ruf nach Harvard. Daruber hinaus war er zeitweise — allerdings mit weit weniger Erfolg — in der Privatwirtschaft und der Politik tatig. Zu seinen Hauptwerken zahlen neben dem erstmals 1942 auf Englisch erschienenen Spatwerk „Kapitalismus, Sozialismus und Demokratie“ seine Habilitationsschrift „Das Wesen und der Hauptinhalt der theoretischen Nationalokonomie“ (1908), die umfangreiche Arbeit „Konjunkturzyklen: Eine theoretische, historische und statistische Analyse des kapitalistischen Prozesses“ (1939) sowie die postum von seiner Frau herausgegebene „Geschichte…
Spanish electoral archive. SEA database
2021
This paper introduces the SEA database (acronym for Spanish Electoral Archive). SEA brings together the most complete public repository available to date on Spanish election outcomes. SEA holds all the results recorded from the electoral processes of General (1979–2019), Regional (1989–2021), Local (1979–2019) and European Parliamentary (1987–2019) elections held in Spain since the restoration of democracy in the late 70 s, in addition to other data sets with electoral content. The data are offered for free and is presented in a homogeneous and friendly format. Most of the databases are available for download with data from various electoral levels, including from the ballot box level. This…
The democracy–ochlocracy–dictatorship transition in the Sznajd model and in the Ising model
2005
Abstract Since its introduction in 2000, the Sznajd model has been assumed to simulate a democratic community with two parties. The main flaw in this model is that a Sznajd system freezes in the long term in a non-democratic state, which can be either a dictatorship or a stalemate configuration. Here we show that the Sznajd model has better to be considered as a transition model, transferring a democratic system already at the beginning of a simulation via an ochlocratic scenario, i.e., a regime in which several mobs rule, to a dictatorship, thus reproducing the corresponding Aristotelian theory.
The shape of eParticipation:Characterizing an emerging research area
2008
Author's version of an article published in Government Information Quarterly, 25 (2008), 400-428. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2007.04.007 The phenomenon of eParticipation is receiving increasing attention, demonstrated by recent technology implementations, experiments, government reports, and research programs. Understanding such an emerging field is a complex endeavor because there is no generally agreed upon definition of the field, no clear overview of the research disciplines or methods it draws upon, and because the boundaries of the field are undecided. Using conventional literature review techniques, we identify 131 scientific articles consid…
Popolo e opinione pubblica nel pensiero di Luigi Sturzo
2021
Luigi Sturzo si occupa di opinione pubblica in relazione al sistema di governo. Secondo Sturzo, «in via generale il popolo, come opinione pubblica, riesce ad essere una forza di controllo e di limitazione dello Stato o meglio degli organi statali che si presume eseguano la sua volontà. Ciò avviene per una fondamentale esigenza della società politica, quella della limitazione dei poteri». Ma non è solo questo. In quell’equilibrio di libertà e autorità di cui spesso parla Sturzo, è necessario che i cittadini abbiano un ruolo; che tutti possano godere della libertà e partecipare al governo non in quanto individui isolati, ma come popolo organizzato e consapevole. Luigi Sturzo deals with public…
Transnational Constructors of Parliamentary Democracy in Swedish and Finnish Constitutional Controversies, 1917–1919
2019
During the First World War, the legitimacy of established polities was challenged everywhere in Europe. Not only the combatant great powers but also smaller states witnessed a resurgence of constitutional disputes and competing ideological conceptualizations of revolution and reform, the will of the people, democracy, and parliamentarism. While these controversies primarily focused on the future of the national polities concerned, historical experiences and discourses accelerated by the war and the Russian Revolution were transnationally interconnected and contributed to discursive transfers between political cultures. Swedish and Finnish socialists were linked by their internationals, libe…