Bringing democracy back home : community localism and the domestication of political space
Decentralization ; Democracy ; Empowerment ; England ; Localism ; Organization ; Political geography ; Power ; Social geography ; Social housing ; United Kingdom
This paper identifies four spatial practices through which marginalised communities in England apply the technology of localism to challenge the limitations of their positioning and imprint promises of empowerment and democracy on space. Drawing
Reflections on regime change and democracy in Bahia, Brazil
This A proposes some reflections on regime change and democracy in Bahia, Brazil. First, he explains that Antônio Carlos Magalhães and his associates, known as carlistas, were in office between 1970 and 2006, when Jaques Wagner, from the Worker’s
making. He uses Robert Dahl’s procedural definition of democracy (completed and updated by more recent scholarship) as the guiding criterion to compare carlista and PT rule in Bahia. He concludes with a broad reflection on subnational democratization
Reinventing rural development in Vietnam : discursive constructions of grassroots democracy during the renovation reform
Agriculture ; Democracy ; Discourse ; Governance ; Local policy ; Rural community ; Rural development ; Vietnam
Le Grassroots Democracy Decree (GDD) est une réponse gouvernementale aux inquiétudes des communautés rurales liées entre l'écart ressenti entre ce qu'elles vivent et ce qui est prôné par les règles de la bonne gouvernance. Exemple des montagnes
Landscape democracy in a globalizing world : the case of Tange Lake
Decision making process ; Democracy ; Denmark ; Landscape esthetics ; Reservoir ; Rural landscape
The main topic of the article is the question of landscape democracy in a world where local issues are seldom just local. This topic is treated both in general terms and in relation to one particular case : the artificial Tange Lake in Denmark
Association ; Caracas ; Democracy ; Local authority ; Local government ; Participation ; Social movement ; Urban district ; Urban society ; Venezuela
Discussion of the activities in recent years of neighborhood associations as a significant development in Venezuelan democracy. It is at this level that the struggle against an entrenched centralist and paternalist tradition is most effective
On the Ruins of the Democratic Transition: Human Rights as an Agenda Item in Abeyance for the Brazilian Democracy
Army ; Brazil ; Civil society ; Democracy ; Human rights ; Political geography ; Twentieth Century ; democracy ; human rights ; transition to democracy
Another century for local democracy? Decentralization, deregulation and participation in Scandinavia in times of European integration
Decentralization ; Democracy ; Denmark ; Deregulation ; Europe ; Liberalisation ; Local administration ; Local policy ; Participation ; Public sector ; Scandinavia ; Social control ; Sweden ; Welfare state
Reworking democracy : contemporary immigration and community politics in Vancouver's Chinatown
Assimilation ; Association ; British Columbia ; Chinese ; Democracy ; Minority ; Political geography ; United States of America ; Urban immigration ; Vancouver