Citizenship in an Eventual Euro-Democracy

Deliberative Democracy and the Deliberative Poll on the Euro

Focus on the concept of deliberative democracy has increased rapidly within recent decades. However, the concept is weakly defined, if at all. ‘Deliberation’ is defined as an unconstrained exchange of arguments that involves practical reasoning and potentially leads to a transformation of preferences. Throughout the 1990s several innovative democratic experiments have flourished focusing on cit...

Citizenship in an Era of Insecurity: Crime, Violence and the Implications for Democracy∗

Throughout Latin America, democratization coincided with a nearly ubiquitous increase in crime and violence, placing “inseguridad” at the top of the agenda. The seemingly intractable rise in crime and violence in recent decades has posed a serious challenge to governability, while also generating broad-based distrust of police and low confidence in the state’s ability to curb crime and violence...

Libraries, democracy, information literacy, and citizenship: An agonistic reading of central library and information studies' concepts

Purpose The aim of this paper is to advocate and contribute to a more nuanced and discerning argument when ascribing a democratic role to libraries and activities related to information literacy. Design/methodology/approach The connections between democracy and libraries as well as between citizenship and information literacy are analysed by using Mouffe’s agonistic pluralism. One example is pr...

Citizenship, Space and Democracy: Political Changes in the Context of Globalization

The article makes a theoretical reflection of space, which has been traditionally studied by geographers and citizenship, without making aside the empirical elements of this relationship. The first paragraph provides that studying the citizenship is necessarily linking it to the issue of democracy, and that, if there have been different approaches for spatial analysis at different scales, we ha...

Participatory Budget : citizenship and participatory democracy In the city of Santo André , Brazil