Table of Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I. INTRODUCTION “By giving us the opinions of the uneducated‚ journalism
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Public participation in environmental decision-making is an area that will always raise questions on the relevance and of the advantages that can be gained by allowing public participation. Decision making by experts‚ which is often characterized as technocracy ’‚ is an area where experts sometimes make key decisions themselves‚ but more commonly advise policy makers and interest groups including governments and corporations. The advantages of using experts in the field are their specialist
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A TERM PAPER ON POL 311 (HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT) TOPIC A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PLATO AND ARISTOTLES POLITICAL THOUGHT WRITTEN BY OKWOR‚ STEPHEN USHIE 09/ED/EF/814 DEPT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS (POLITICAL SCIENCE UNIT) FACULTY OF EDUCATION SUBMITTED TO DR. EJERE DEPT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF UYO‚ UYO AKWA IBOM STATE MAY‚ 2012 A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PLATO AND ARISTOTLES POLITICAL THOUGHT In order to compare these great
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Benjamin Barber‚ the director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University‚ is today’s leading advocate of "participatory" democracy. Not content with mere representation‚ he aims to make every citizen a legislator‚ to bring about‚ as he puts it‚ "unmediated self-government." To this ambitious end‚ he speaks with remarkable single-mindedness on the academic conference circuit‚ celebrating the civic potential of the people and sounding‚ very often‚ less
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need to preserve our liberty? It is this increasing inadequacy of Congress which leads me to consider the president as another possible engine of legislation. On the other side‚ those who are advocates of the current system recognize this slow and deliberative process not as a problem but rather as a feature of our constitution‚ intended to avoid poor bills and government overreach. From their viewpoint‚ congress is able to pass bills as needed and forcing them to vote on bills they did not propose would
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Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy Nancy Fraser Social Text‚ No. 25/26. (1990)‚ pp. 56-80. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0164-2472%281990%290%3A25%2F26%3C56%3ARTPSAC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N Social Text is currently published by Duke University Press. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use
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GSR Behaviour Change Knowledge Review Reference Report: An overview of behaviour change models and their uses Andrew Darnton‚ Centre for Sustainable Development‚ University of Westminster July 2008 Contents 1. Introduction 2. Understanding Behaviour 2.1 Economic assumptions 2.2 Behavioural economics 2.3 The role of information and the value action gap 2.4 Values‚ beliefs and attitudes 2.5 Norms and identity 2.6 Agency‚ efficacy and control 2.7 Habit and routine 2.8 The role
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‘As concepts‚ race and nation are largely empty receptacles through and in the names of which population groups may be invented‚ interpreted and imagined as communities or societies’ (Goldberg‚ 1993: 79). Race and ethnicity are major contributing factors of racism in Australia today‚ and the continued racist beliefs of many Australians are the driving forces of inequality in modern Australian society. To truly understand how this occurs one first needs to understand the forms and effects of racism
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Report of the National Workshop on Internet Voting: Issues and Research Agenda March 2001 Sponsored by the National Science Foundation Conducted in cooperation with the University of Maryland and hosted by the Freedom Forum I NT E RN ET P O L IC Y I NS T IT U TE INTERNET POLICY INSTITUTE Report of the National Workshop on Internet Voting: Issues and Research Agenda March 2001 Sponsored by the National Science Foundation Conducted in cooperation with the University of
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Vincent Nguyen 8/15/11 Pg. 1 Chapter 1 Entry “…rhetoric offers a grander‚ metaphysical payoff: it jolts you into a fresh new perspective on the human condition. After it awakens you to the argument all around‚ the world will never seem the same.” (6) In chapter one‚ “Open Your Eyes‚” Heinrichs states that argument is an important social element that surrounds everyday life. People who uses rhetoric‚ the art of argument‚ tends to succeed in persuading others to do their bidding. Many
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