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Zasady finansowania współpracy euroregionalnej na przykładzie Euroregionu Silesia
2016
The tasks of the Euroregion Silesia in the pre-accession program Phare CBC were different on both sides of the border and were limited contem- porary rules that force countries not belonging to the community of the EU. After the entry of both countries to the EU and the incorporation of the program INTERREG III A, the activities of the Euroregion as the so-called. Fund Manager of the Micro sometimes codified and today authorities of both parts Euroregion perform tasks in close cooperation with each other. With the Fund may be funded projects in the field of culture, sports, education, education, tourism, the environment, eco- nomic development planning, use of information technologies and o…
Does Public Deliberation really Need Normative Constraints? Recovering the Aristotelian Rhetorical Theory
2016
There was recently an attempt to correlate some sectors of the studies on argumentation and the theory of democracy. The relationship between these two areas concerns the fact that in both cases there is a significant interest in normative models of good argumentation. In these models there is no place for rhetoric. Our work has a twofold aim: (1) to show that, starting from the Aristotelian rhetoric, it is possible to develop a more suitable model of argumentation in the public sphere and (2) to doubt the very need to identify normative constraints for this type of argument.
Return to politics Uncertainty, debate and political action in the theory of democracy Benjamin R. Barber
2014
La teoría de Benjamin Barber ha renovado por varias razones su actualidad al cumplirse 30 años de la edición de Strong Democracy. Me interesa desarrollar en este artículo la relación que Barber establece entre la necesidad de la acción política, la incertidumbre epistemológica del ámbito político y la deliberación. Reconocer esta relación puede ayudarnos a explicar la inevitabilidad de la política y, por tanto, retornar a ella. No cabe duda de que en nuestros tiempos globalizados es fácil reconocer la necesidad de la acción y la incertidumbre, por lo que la teoría de Barber puede indicarnos cómo sobrellevarlas. Si la propuesta de Barber fue en su momento una inspiración para nuestras preten…
Deliberative Democracy, Active Citizenship and Critical Culture: From Aristotle’s Rhetoric to Contemporary Political Philosophy
2013
The aim of this paper is to defend an adequate reading of Aristotle´s deliberative rhetoric that allows us to understand practical rationalization as a process of interpretation of human actions. After the consideration of rhetoric as a general human ability that is indispensable for political coexistence, the impact of the Aristotelian rhetorical proposal is presented, not just as a defense of the importance of rhetoric in a democratic society, but also as a novel attempt to understand what it means to speak of practical rationality.
Demokratiforståelse og intensjoner i demokratioppdragelsen. Norske læreplaner mellom 1974 og 2010
2012
Author's version of an article published in the journal: Nordic Studies in Education. Also available from the publisher at: http://www.idunn.no/ts/np/2012/01/demokrati-forstaaelse_og_intensjoner_i_demokratioppdragelsen A democracy requires politically educated citizens who are capable of actively participating in the democracy. The school has played, and plays an important role in this context. This article contains an examination of four separate Norwegian curricula in light of three different understandings of democracy, these being communitarian, deliberative and liberal. Content analysis of the curricula’s general and principle components as well as a study of two subjects has been comp…
Agnès Alexandre-Collier, Alexandra Goujon et Guillaume Gourgues (eds.), Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy
2021
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Unpopular policies and the theory of representative democracy
1993
Their platforms reflect concern with enhancing the probability of being elected, but some candidates often, or all candidates occasionally, voluntarily adept stances that reduce that probability. Governments care about their popularity, but sometimes they choose, even before an election, to announce or implement policies that are unpopular. For most people, the phenomenon is no news and is not altogether a unhappy one. Deprecating words such as demagogy or "mob rule" and praising ones such as leadership or statesmanship express a deeply-rooted, widelyshared concern about the possibility that democratic politicians could be too subservient to public opinion.(...)
More Relevant Today Than Ever: Past, Present and Future of Media Performance Research
2020
Media performance is constitutive for functioning democracies. But what is the situation regarding media performance in the age of digitalisation? And how can media performance continue to be assured under the current difficult economic conditions for the news industry? In this essay, we give a short overview of how media performance research has developed from the introduction of private broadcasting to the spread of the Internet and social media. In the course of this development, the initial focus of media performance research on media content has broadened to include media quality from the user perspective. We show how the contributions to this thematic issue relate with existing lines …
W drodze ku nowoczesności : dyplomacja publiczna jako narzędzie konsolidacji demokracji
2018
Przemiany zachodzące we współczesnych stosunkach międzynarodowych tworzą nową, dynamicznie zmieniającą się rzeczywistość. Dla państw Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, które od ponad 25 lat znajdują się na ścieżce demokratycznej transformacji, oznacza to szereg dylematów i wyzwań. Młode demokracje regionu muszą nie tylko dbać o dotychczasowy dorobek transformacji, ale przede wszystkim kontynuować proces konsolidacji systemu, będący jednym z najistotniejszych warunków nowoczesnego państwa. Szczególną rolę pełni w tym zakresie społeczeństwo obywatelskie, które rozwija się i umacnia m.in. dzięki dyplomacji publicznej. Ta ostatnia upodmiotowiła obywateli w polityce i dała im możliwość wywierania realn…