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The People’s Assembly: Testing the Collaborative (e)-Democracy

2020

This paper aims to critically analyse the Estonian People’s Assembly (EPA), a crowdsourcing initiative carried out from 2013 to 2014. During the project, citizens could participate in decision-making and make proposals for laws and policies on a dedicated web-platform. Additionally, some people were invited for a traditional off-line debate. In that way, the project combined virtual communication tools with traditional discussion to apply the principles of collaborative e-democracy, in which governmental stakeholders and non-governmental stakeholders (such as local communities) join in a deliberative debate. The purpose of this paper is to observe, both, gains and problems of this crowdsour…

Lēmumu pieņemšana politiskajās partijās Latvijā: kandidātu sarakstu veidošana 12. Saeimas vēlēšanām

2018

Bakalaura darba tēma ir „Lēmumu pieņemšana politiskajās partijās Latvijā: kandidātu sarakstu veidošana 12. Saeimas vēlēšanām”. Darba autore pēc vēlēšanās startējošo politisko partiju un partiju apvienību biedru iesaistes iespējām kandidātu sarakstu veidošanā 12. Saeimas vēlēšanām noteica demokrātiskumu šajā lēmumu pieņemšanas aspektā. Lai noteiktu kandidātu sarakstu veidošanas demokrātiskumu, tika aptaujāti 39 partiju un partiju apvienību pārstāvji. Iegūtās atbildes tikai apstrādātas pēc autores izstrādātās metodoloģijas. Izvirzītā hipotēze neapstiprinās. Kandidātu sarakstu veidošana 12. Saeimas vēlēšanām neklasificējas kā ļoti nedemokrātiska. Secināts, ka kandidātu iespēja tikt ierindotiem…

Thinking the Political with Jean-Luc Nancy

2021

In this article, I argue that at the center of Jean-Luc Nancy’s approach to the political lies the thinking of subject as that of relation. Throughout the historical actualizations of, for example, the individual, the state, or the people as a subject, the problematic of relation is one that has retreated and now demands to be subjected to a retreatment. When the arche-teleological presuppositions that constitute subject as that which is given enter the phase of deconstruction, subject comes to present itself as nothing but the activity of relating itself to itself. I respond to Nancy’s call to invent “an affirmation of relation” by way of rethinking the logics of sovereignty and democracy.…

Democracy as Utopia: On Locating Radical Roots

2020

Teknologiavälitteisen kansalaisvaikuttamisen mahdollisuudet suomalaisessa lainsäädäntöprosessissa

2004

Views on Religious Freedom among Young People in Belarus and Norway: Similarities and Contrasts

2019

The study of religious freedom has not received sufficient empirical attention from sociologists of religion, despite significant theoretical discussion of the governance of religious freedom. This article suggests empirical findings about the views on religious freedom in Belarus and Norway from the international research project &ldquo

The relativistic attitude in development: reflections on the implementation of the Ethiopian multinational Constitution

2019

L’approccio allo sviluppo che considera la crescita economica come unico obiettivo può produrre degli effetti deleteri sui gruppi marginalizzati. Lo sviluppismo adottato in Etiopia dal 1991 illustra questo punto con riferimento ai contadini, ai popoli pastorali e alle minoranze etniche. La riflessione internazionale sullo sviluppo e il progresso nel campo dei diritti umani hanno portato all’emergere di nuovi paradigmi. L’articolo mostra come le misure correttive siano state caratterizzate da una crescente attitudine ‘relativistica’, che consiste nel dare considerazione alla rilevanza di articolazioni particolari di cultura, norme formali o informali, e condizioni locali. L’attitudine relati…

Utebarnehager – et sted for demokratisk praksis?

2013

The questions in the title is posed to discuss how an outdoor kindergarten space is contextualized and understood by those who are staying there. Nature is often seen as an especially open space, free from strong guidelines and structures. Being part of an educational practice gives the place new structures. The activities the children participate in and the employees expressed attitudes and practices are part of different discourses, which give certain limits or possibilities for what is going on at the Hut, and thus influence a democratic practice. Especially children’s play activities represent an opposition to the adult’s framing of the place. Democracy presupposes some frames, but if t…

Melhoramento ético das práticas em saúde: Comitês de Bioética em Espanha e Brasil

2017

O compartilhamento solidário de experiências entre Brasil e Espanha reposiciona a importância de novos espaços democráticos de participação cidadã e debate ético-político, suscitando questões como: a participação em Comitês Bioéticos pode ir em direção às necessiades-interesses sociais presentes na singularidade da relação profissional-paciente e equipe de saúde? No Brasil, a participação dos profissionais em fóruns construídos para ampliação do controle social e debate da ética, avança como permanente desafio. A ampliação da deliberação em coletivos de debate e equipes de saúde, precisa assumir novo sentido público social na construção da relação profissional-usuário-sistema de saúde-socie…

Erika Steinbach: The Last Charismatic Representative of the Expellees?

2015

International audience; This paper aims to show how Erika Steinbach, at the head of the BdV (Federation of Deportees) since 1998, has come to embody in person this large social group, in the eyes of the media and of various institutions. No stranger to controversy, she represents the hereditary German enemy in Poland (thus plaguing German diplomatic relations with the country) and is strongly rejected by certain parts of the population while being unconditionally supported by the deportees themselves. The ambiguous role played by this political figure will be shown through the analysis of quarrels surrounding the inauguration of a memorial to the deportees. Steinbach has been both the drivi…