Democracy, Anti-Democracy, and the Canon

Online Community and Democracy

The debate over the contribution of the Internet to democracy is farfrom settled. Some point to the empowering effects of online discussionand fund raising on recent electoral campaigns in the US to argue thatthe Internet will restore the public sphere. Others claim that the Internetis just a virtual mall, a final extension of global capitalism into everycorner of our lives. This paper argues f...

Analysis and Criticism of Epistemological Approach to Democracy and Impossibility of Religious Democracy

In this article the author clarifies his epistemological approach to democracy based on its two crucial principles namely autonomy and dialogue. He has demonstrated that distinguished scholars of this approach deny the integration of religion and democracy and believe in the impossibility of religious democracy. Given this theory, the author has criticized humanological and epistemological foun...

the relation between islam and democracy: case study of deep democracy and committed democracy

in this essay is trying to study the relation between islam and democracy in model of deep democracy and commmitted democracy. thus, i study this relationin on seven factors of concepts of democracy (political or philosophical), awareness from outside, multi approach to democracy, communinty nd self interaction, communiction, situated self and pluralism, that are beyond of current liberal democ...

Does democracy assistance promote democracy?

1 Democracy assistance may contribute to democratisation in a number of ways. It can channel support for elections, it can strengthen legislatures and judiciaries by creating checks and balances on the executive and other bodies, and it can promote democratic participation by strengthening civil society organisations, among others. Against a background of growing concern for democracy worldwide...

Democracy Incorporated Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism