Deepening Democracy within Ireland’s Social Partnership

The limits of the EU : enlargement , deepening and democracy Wolfgang

Understanding Social Democracy

Participatory democracy in social movements

Participatory democracy refers to an organizational form in which decision making is decentralized, nonhierarchical, and consensus oriented. It can be contrasted with bureaucracy, in which decision making is centralized, hierarchical, and based on a formal division of labor, as well as with majority vote. Participatory democratic organizations have been a prominent feature of many progressive m...

Social partnership: Theory and practice

recent Korean governments have attempted to use social partnership as a mechanism to achieve cooperative and peaceful industrial relations and to balance economic effi ciency with social equity in the context of globalisation. This paper has two aims. First it seeks to put the current social partnership experiment in historical perspective and argues that current developments in Korean industri...

Promoting Democracy From Without: Evaluating From Within

Promoting democracy and ‘good governance’ in developing countries have become core objectives of official development agencies, both bilateral and multilateral. Three main sets of questions arise from such ‘assistance’. Analytically, what is the underlying motive in promoting political reform, and what is the assumed relationship between such measures and economic liberalisation? Contextually, ...