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Tomila V Lankina - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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authoritarian versus Democratic diffusions explaining Institutional choices in russia s local government
Post-soviet Affairs, 2008Co-Authors: Vladimir Gelman, Tomila V LankinaAbstract:Two political scientists address questions posed by the puzzling survival of the Institution of elected city mayors in Russia despite the efforts of the national government to abolish it. Based on datasets not only of local government reforms across all the regions but also of the regional component of European Union aid, statistical analysis is used to challenge dominant approaches to Democratic Institution building and diffusion theories are applied. The findings with regard to the spatially uneven and poly-nuclear nature of Institutional influences challenge prevalent approaches to authoritarianism and Democratic Institution building.
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a geographic incremental theory of democratization territory aid and democracy in postcommunist regions
World Politics, 2006Co-Authors: Tomila V Lankina, Lullit GetachewAbstract:The article examines the impact of geographical proximity to the West and of Western aid on democracy in Russia's regions and advances a geographic incrementalist theory of democratization. Even when national politicians exhibit authoritarian tendencies, diffusion processes and targeted foreign aid help advance democratization at the subnational level in postcommunist states and other settings. The authors make this case by conducting process-tracing case studies of Democratic Institution building in two northwestern border regions and statistical analysis of over one thousand projects that the European Union carried out in Russia's localities over fourteen years. They find that the EU shows commitment to Democratic reform particularly in, but not limited to, regions located on its eastern frontier. Over time, this, as well as diffusion processes from the West, positively affects the Democratic trajectory of the respective regions even if they had been more closed to begin with compared to other regions.
Camona Hurtado Jordi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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La democracia en Babilonia: sorteo y literatura en Borges y Rancière: La democracia de Babilonia: Sorteo y literatura en Borges y Rancière
'Editorial de la Universidad de Granada', 2021Co-Authors: Camona Hurtado JordiAbstract:This paper consists mainly in a reading of Borges' story "The Lottery in Babylon", and interprets it as an allegorical satire of democracy that nonetheless points in an extremely acurated way to the heart of the matter: the sortition. From this reading, we show the relationship between the Borgian theory of fiction and its general judgment on politics. Rancière's vindication, similar and contradictory, of sortition as the genuinely Democratic Institution, reveals as contrast an alternative idea of both politics and literature.Este artículo consiste principalmente en una lectura del relato de Borges “La lotería en Babilonia”, que resulta interpretado como una alegoría satírica de la democracia que, sin embargo, apunta de modo penetrante al corazón olvidado de la misma: el sorteo. A partir de esa lectura, mostramos la relación entre la teoría borgiana de la ficción y su dictamen general sobre la política. La reivindicación de Rancière, semejante y contraria, del sorteo como institución genuinamente democrática, revela por contraste una idea alternativa tanto de la política como de la literatura
Lullit Getachew - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a geographic incremental theory of democratization territory aid and democracy in postcommunist regions
World Politics, 2006Co-Authors: Tomila V Lankina, Lullit GetachewAbstract:The article examines the impact of geographical proximity to the West and of Western aid on democracy in Russia's regions and advances a geographic incrementalist theory of democratization. Even when national politicians exhibit authoritarian tendencies, diffusion processes and targeted foreign aid help advance democratization at the subnational level in postcommunist states and other settings. The authors make this case by conducting process-tracing case studies of Democratic Institution building in two northwestern border regions and statistical analysis of over one thousand projects that the European Union carried out in Russia's localities over fourteen years. They find that the EU shows commitment to Democratic reform particularly in, but not limited to, regions located on its eastern frontier. Over time, this, as well as diffusion processes from the West, positively affects the Democratic trajectory of the respective regions even if they had been more closed to begin with compared to other regions.
Allan Rosenbaum - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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building a new democracy in ukraine the unacknowledged issue of ethnic and linguistic diversity in public administration education and training
Public Administration Review, 2009Co-Authors: Natalya Kolisnichenko, Allan RosenbaumAbstract:The fall of the Soviet empire and the transition to democracy that has taken place in Central and Eastern Europe (and elsewhere) during the past three decades has focused new attention on both the processes of, and the issues involved in, Democratic Institution building. These experiences have shown that issues of linguistic and ethnic difference are often key elements in such matters. Ukraine, a country of considerable strategic importance, has struggled with both the transition to democracy and the relative roles of the Ukrainian and Russian languages in the task of nation-state building. This article examines the emergence of linguistic conflicts in Ukrainian government and public policy and explores, through a survey of higher education Institutions, its impact on the preparation of the next generation of the nation's public administrators. The article concludes by explaining why the impact of this politically divisive issue has been more modest than might have been expected.
Budi Irawanto - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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state and civil society relationships in indonesia a society oriented reading in search for Democratic space
Preventing Chronic Disease, 2017Co-Authors: Aris Arif Mundayat, Pitra Narendra, Budi IrawantoAbstract:This paper has shown how the relationship between state and civil society in Indonesia is part of the problem of building Democratic government. The problems in Indonesian society is the polycentric nature, by which civil society organisations or popular organisations are being fragmanted and often unorganised. This has made it increasingly difficult to transform various conflicts into more political through Democratic Institution. At least there are four major problems: The first problem is when a strong civil society faces an ineffective state tactic of governmentality. This tends to stimulate civil society resistance and conflict; or it fosters coexistence through alternative governmentality techniques where the relationship between the state and society is in conflict. The second problem is when a weak civil society faces and effective state. This tends to trigger practices of money politics which are embedded in patronage and clientelism. The third problem can be found in the situation where weak civil society faces an ineffective state which tends to stimulate the emergence of extralegal governmentality practiced by thugs, militia, vigilantes, and paramilitaries. The fourth problem is reflected in the situation where a strong civil society faces an effective state.