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Amy Michelle Debaets - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • enhancement for all a feminist ethical Analysis of the discourses and practices of democratic transhumanism
    Proceedings from the Societas Ethica Annual Conference 2011; The Quest for perfection. The Future of Medicine Medicine of the future; August 25-28; 20, 2013
    Co-Authors: Amy Michelle Debaets
    Abstract:

    Transhumanism is a socioPolitical movement that seeks to transform human beings into beings beyond the human condition through various technological means. Within this broader movement stand the democratic transhumanists, or technoprogressives, who believe that a social safety net and broad access to transhuman and related medical technologies are critical to both justice and the success of the transhumanist project. Feminists engaged in technological and Political Analysis often have much in common with technoprogressivism, but there are also significant points of disagreement. A liberal feminist ethical Analysis of democratic transhumanism will highlight areas of both agreement and disagreement and will provide a potential roadmap for how to ethically engage the future of transhuman technologies.

Ryan Walter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • rhetoric or deliberation the case for rhetorical Political Analysis
    Political Studies, 2017
    Co-Authors: Ryan Walter
    Abstract:

    This article joins together recent work in rhetorical Political Analysis with methodological advances made in intellectual history to prospect a historical and linguistic approach to public reason and deliberation. It is offered as an alternative to currently dominant approaches that emphasise philosophical and normative understanding, especially those associated with the ‘deliberative turn’ in democratic theory. This alternative approach is developed by identifying two points of methodological divergence between a rhetorical and philosophical orientation to deliberation. First, a rhetorical approach will study standards of deliberation that are endogenous to a society instead of imposing them on the basis of one form of philosophical reason or another. Second, rhetorical Analysis does not conceive of deliberation as consensus reached through noncoerced reflection but as the strategic deployment of shared linguistic resources in a context of contingently unfolding non-linguistic events.

Laure Neumayer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • integrating the central european past into a common narrative the mobilizations around the crimes of communism in the european parliament
    Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2015
    Co-Authors: Laure Neumayer
    Abstract:

    After the Cold War, a new constellation of actors entered transnational European assemblies. Their interpretation of European history, which was based on the equivalence of the two ‘totalitarianisms’, Stalinism and Nazism, directly challenged the prevailing Western European narrative constructed on the uniqueness of the Holocaust as the epitome of evil. This article focuses on the mobilizations of these memory entrepreneurs in the European Parliament in order to take into account the issue of agency in European memory politics. Drawing on a social and Political Analysis centered on institutionally embedded actors, a process-tracing Analysis investigates the adoption of the furthest-reaching official expression of a ‘totalitarian’ interpretation of Communism to date: the Resolution on European Conscience and Totalitarianism from April 2009. This case study shows that the issue was put on the parliamentary agenda by a small group of Central and Eastern European politicians who had managed to ‘learn the rope...

Joachim Åström - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Political blog space: A new arena for Political representation?
    New Media & Society, 2014
    Co-Authors: Martin Karlsson, Joachim Åström
    Abstract:

    While the academic interest in the Political blogosphere has grown exponentially in recent years, existing research is predominantly dedicated to Political campaigning. In view of the “diminishing prestige of the electoral process” and the “rise of new forms of legitimacy” a broader Political Analysis of blogs is called for. This article investigates whether the Political blogosphere is an arena for Political representation by asking (1) how representatives communicate with citizens through blogging in order to aid central functions of Political representation, such as accountability, connectivity, and inquiry, and (2) what strategic, technological, and normative factors explain differences in representatives’ communication with citizens. The empirical Analysis, based on a survey questionnaire targeting all Swedish blogging representatives, illuminates four different approaches to blogging, with different drivers and implications for the representative democracy.

Deborah Perlman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • At The Frontier Of Practical Political Economy : Operationalizing An Agent-Based Stakeholder Model In The World Bank's East Asia And Pacific Region - At the Frontier of Practical Political Economy : Operationalizing an Agent-Based Stakeholder Model i
    Policy Research Working Papers, 2010
    Co-Authors: Barbara Nunberg, Naazneen H. Barma, Mark Abdollahian, Amanda Green, Deborah Perlman
    Abstract:

    Reform programs sometimes falter because they are Politically infeasible. Policy change inevitably creates winners and losers, so those with vested interests strike bargains to determine how far and how quickly reform should advance. Understanding these micro Political dynamics of reform can mean the difference between a successful intervention that gains Political traction and a well-intentioned gambit that falls short of achieving its developmental objectives. Donors like the World Bank have been searching for ways to take these Political factors more fully into account as they design programs to support country reforms. This initiative sought to introduce a rigorous and operationally usable Political Analysis tool that could be systematically integrated into the World Bank's country programming cycle. The East Asia and Pacific region carried out a multi-country pilot of the Agent-Based Stakeholder Model. This innovative analytical approach entails a quantitative simulation of the complex bargaining dynamics surrounding reform. The model anticipates stakeholder coalition formation and gauges the Political feasibility of alternative proposed interventions. This paper provides a review of the Agent-Based Stakeholder Model pilot experience, exploring what sets this model apart from more traditional approaches, how it works, and how it fits into the Bank's operational cycle at various stages. An overview of the Mongolia, Philippines, and Timor-Leste country cases is followed by an examination of policy-related insights and lessons learned. Finally, the paper builds on this East Asian pilot experience, offering ideas on a potential way forward for organizations like the World Bank to deepen and extend their Political Analysis capabilities. The paper argues that the Agent-Based Stakeholder Model, utilized thoughtfully, offers a powerful addition to the practical Political economy toolkit.