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The radical turn of Portuguese social work during the democratic transition (1974–76)
2019
The transition to democracy in Portugal in the 1970s provides the socio-historical background for this article. It focuses on the period of 1974–76, known as the revolutionary phase, when a series of progressive political programmes, forms of direct democracy, collective mobilisation and widespread grass-roots initiatives emerged in the aftermath of the dictatorial regime. The experiences of Portuguese social workers in the aforementioned revolutionary vanguards will be compared and interpreted by using the radical social work approaches that sprang up in the UK and US at the time. Ten in-depth interviews with social workers involved in radical intervention during the revolutionary phase wi…
Radical Experiences of Portuguese Social Workers in the Vanguard of the 1974 Revolution
2019
This article focuses on the contribution of social workers to the Portuguese democratic transition in the 1970s. Their involvement in urban social mobilizations and in the cooperative movement will offer a perspective on the participation of social workers alongside the Revolutionary process and how they, through engaging with social mobilization, grass-roots initiatives and socio-political activism deployed practices consistent with radical social work frames. It is argued that the Revolution provided the structural conditions for social workers to engage with radical practice and that their intervention constituted a form of agency for socio-political transformation while influencing prof…
The participation paradox: demand for and fear of immigrant participation
2019
In this paper, we address the ambivalence in European immigrant integration discourses toward the political participation of immigrants. We show how this ambivalence manifests in what we call a ‘participation paradox’, which is constituted by two apparently conflicting, but potentially mutually reinforcing characteristics of the discourse. The first emphasizes the need for immigrants to be active in order to attain a well-integrated society and well-functioning democratic polity; the second is a call for the protection of liberal democratic institutions from the alleged ‘illiberal threats’ that migrants pose to society. Immigrant participation is thus both demanded and feared. Using illustr…
Co-Production in the Context of Finnish Social Services and Health Care: A Challenge and a Possibility for a New Kind of Democracy
2016
Alongside the ongoing renewal process of the Finnish welfare state, the role of the citizens is also revisited. So far the attention has mainly focused on how the responsibility for service provision is shared between the public sector and the service users, while the role of public services as a part of the democratic system has been more or less ignored. Based on the results from a 3-year participatory action research project called KAMPA, this article will discuss if the development of co-production in the context of public welfare services shows the way forward toward a new kind of society where democracy is an inseparable part of the structures and procedures of the service provision. …
Conceptualizing and Measuring the Quality of Democracy: The Citizens' Perspective
2018
In recent years, several measurements of the quality of democracy have been developed (e.g. Democracy Barometer, Varieties of Democracy Project). These objective measurements focus on institutional and procedural characteristics of democracy. This article starts from the premise that in order to fully understand the quality of democracy such objective measurements have to be complemented by subjective measurements based on the perspective of citizens. The aim of the article is to conceptualize and measure the subjective quality of democracy. First, a conceptualization of the subjective quality of democracy is developed consisting of citizens’ support for three normative models of democracy …
De Weimar à Bonn: justice, droit et démocratie en Allemagne au XXe siècle
2020
Ce dossier d'HDR retrace dans un premier volume (document de synthèse) un parcours de recherche qui se situe au carrefour de l’histoire juridique, politique et culturelle de l’Allemagne du XXe siècle et qui m’a menée de travaux d’abord centrés sur l’histoire des idées juridiques sous Weimar vers des recherches relevant d’une histoire culturelle de la justice et au-delà de la démocratie ouest-allemande après 1945. L’unité du dossier réside en premier lieu dans ses objets d’étude : l’articulation entre le droit, la justice et leurs acteurs (les juristes) et la réflexion sur la démocratie. Il montre ce qu’une approche historique du droit et de la justice peut apporter à la compréhension de l’h…
Proletariaatin vallasta yhteistyöhön porvarillisten demokraattien kanssa : SDP:n eduskuntaryhmä demokratian määrittelijänä 1917–1920
2019
Pasi Ihalainen tarkastelee artikkelissaan vuosien 1917–1920 eduskunta- ja lehdistöpuhetta diskurssihistoriallisesta näkökulmasta. Hän osoittaa, miten molemminpuolinen epäluottamus ja kärjistynyt retoriikka osaltaan vaikuttivat sodan syttymiseen ja miten sodan jälkeen työväenliikkeen maltillisempi siipi päätyi yhteistyöhakuisempaan linjaan ja parlamentarismiin. nonPeerReviewed
Skolas vadības komandas darbība pedagoģiskā procesa demokratizēšanā
1999
Advisor: Ludviks Grudulis
Des idées devenus inactuelles ? Le rapport ambivalent au libéralisme dans le discours des juristes sociaux-démocrates weimariens.
2015
International audience; Cet article entend jeter un éclairage sur le rapport ambivalent que la pensée juridique sociale-démocrate entretient avec le libéralisme dans cette période à la fois de crise et de renouveau de la pensée du droit qu’est la République de Weimar. D’une part, des juristes comme Hugo Sinzheimer, Gustav Radbruch, Ernst Fraenkel ou Hermann Heller remettent en cause de façon parfois radicale la conception individualiste et libérale du droit, jugée inadaptée aux exigences de l’époque, ce qui rapproche à certains égards leur discours de ceux de juristes « de droite » rejetant la démocratie weimarienne. D’autre part, certains n’hésitent pas, et notamment dans la crise des dern…