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Conflicting conceptualisations of ‘democracy’ in the German Bundestag during the anti-nuclear demonstrations, 1995-2001
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 to nuclear transportation continued to grow in strength throughout the 1990s. The protests expressed people’s distrust and lack of confidence in political institutions and decision-making processes. In the German Bundestag, these events relating to Gorleben caused significant political struggles over the principles and meanings of German democracy. Parliamentarians voiced competing counterarguments about the legitimacy of these demonstrations, on the one hand, and the legitimacy of the nuclear ene…
Parliamentary Democracy Versus Direct Democracy? : Challenging Liberal, Representative Democracy in the German Bundestag During the Anti-nuclear Demo…
2019
In German politics, concepts of parliamentarism and the relationship between parliamentarism and democracy have evolved since the nineteenth century. Politicians, citizens and scholars have regularly redefined and challenged conceptions of parliament’s task of representation, public debate and legitimate decision-making in different historical circumstances. One such crucial phase in re-evaluating and redefining conceptions of democracy in Germany was the second half of the 1990s, when a vigorous anti-nuclear movement arose. In the German federal parliament, members had to explain their understandings of German democracy. The tradition of liberal, representative democracy was in a conflict …
Desmantling patriarchy: political practices and Spanish feminist movement slogans in the democratic transition
2010
espanolEl movimiento feminista en Espana adquirio su mayor desarrollo en los anos setenta con el inicio de la transicion democratica. El proceso transicional representaba una oportunidad para la reivindicacion de los derechos de las mujeres y poner las nuevas bases sobre el lugar que debian ocupar en la futura sociedad democratica, asi como para denunciar la represion que la dictadura impuso al colectivo femenino. Las campanas y practicas politicas desarrolladas por el movimiento feminista en Espana fueron acompanadas de simbolos y lemas que formaban parte de la produccion simbolica del movimiento feminista como movimiento social. Estas representaciones simbolicas ayudaron configurar una id…
IL RITORNO DEL RIMOSSO. CARL SCHMITT E L’ULTIMO HABERMAS
2018
In this essay, I propose to look at Habermas’ recent work like an implicit recognition of the theoretical value of some Carl Schmitt’s ideas. Regardless of the harsh criticism that Habermas manifests towards Schmitt’s political theology in his latest essays.
Cartelization process in institutionalized environments: legitimation and political communication
2017
International audience; The main objective of this paper is to analyze cartel party tendencies toward professionalization of communicative institutional processes (Mair, 015).The main role of the media in a audience democracy is indisputable (Manin, 1998). So the media politics are one of the main features of public space. In this way, Political parties have become platforms of placement of their leaders to occupy the largest number of institutional positions. Consequently, this phenomenon has spread as a common practice of our political system. The emergence of partisan elite, which has professionalized itself in high political-institutional positions, has colonized the leadership of publi…
Le settimane sociali dei cattolici tra antico e moderno: il ruolo di Giuseppe Toniolo
2010
Nel saggio è ricostruito il ruolo teorico e organizzativo di Giuseppe Toniolo nella fondazione e promozione delle Settimane sociali dei cattolici italiani. Il suo contributo sarà sotto molti profili decisivo per ripensare riposizionare la presenza dei cattolici nello Stato italiano tra Ottocento e Novecento, dopo il difficile passaggio determinato dall'esito del processo di unificazione
La cittadinanza attiva come competenza del docente: un dibattito degli anni Sessanta
2016
In questo articolo viene indagata la cittadinanza attiva come competenza del docente della buona scuola, da un lato alla luce delle emergenze poste dall’attuale società plurale, dall’altro lato collegandola al tradizionale concetto di educazione civica. Attraverso un’indagine storica, che privilegia un metodo fenomenologico-ermeneutico, vengono interrogati gli anni Sessanta, una stagione delle speranze che fu per l’educazione civica un’occasione mancata, poiché fu ridotta all’esercizio di una lettura ragionata della Costituzione repubblicana senza diventare una vera e propria materia di insegnamento. Furono, in particolare, la riforma della scuola media e della scuola materna, l’occasione d…
Social capital of Ukrainian society after the Revolution of Dignity
2021
This article is devoted to the issue of the social capital of Ukrainian society a few years after the Revolution of Dignity. Its basic goal is to try to answer the question of whether the society, which at the turn of 2013 and 2014 coordinated its activities in order to achieve the common goal: the removal of the former government, set the pro-Western course. Indeed, a civil society was characterized by permanent resources of social capital. In order to get the answer to this question, the article analyses a number of indicators that are customarily related to social capital, such as: the level of trust in individual state and social institutions, the level of involvement in volunteering an…
Is there a Nordic Approach to Questions of Democracy in Studies of Network Governance?
2009
Abstract The notion of democratic network governance has attracted growing interest among students of local and regional governance in all the Nordic countries since the 1990s. This article examines whether research in this area reflects a particular Nordic account of democracy. The Nordic countries have strong traditions of local autonomy, local networks and the inclusion of civil society associations. The authors find reason to expect that the Nordic traditions of local and regional governance may have stimulated a common approach to democracy questions with the features of an integrative perspective. At the same time, the differences in the history of democratisation are likely to have u…
2017
Centralization and decentralization are key concepts in debates that focus on the (anti)democratic character of digital societies. Centralization is understood as the control over communication and data flows, and decentralization as giving it (back) to users. Communication and media research focuses on centralization put forward by dominant digital media platforms, such as Facebook and Google, and governments. Decentralization is investigated regarding its potential in civil society, i.e., hacktivism, (encryption) technologies, and grass-root technology movements. As content-based media companies increasingly engage with technology, they move into the focus of critical media studies. Moreo…