Public Administration and Democracy: The Virtue and Limit of Participatory Democracy as a Democratic Innovation

Inclusive Democracy and Participatory Economics

Although Michael Albert is well aware of the existence of the Inclusive Democracy (ID) project, still, in his new book Parecon, Life After Capitalism he prefers to ignore its existence and follows the trouble-free path to compare Parecon with the disastrous central planning system and the narrowly ecological bio-regionalism, (or, elsewhere, with social ecology’s libertarian municipalism, which,...

When Does Participatory Democracy Deepen the Quality of Democracy?

the innovation of a statistical model to estimate dependable rainfall (dr) and develop it for determination and classification of drought and wet years of iran

آب حاصل از بارش منبع تأمین نیازهای بی شمار جانداران به ویژه انسان است و هرگونه کاهش در کم و کیف آن مستقیماً حیات موجودات زنده را تحت تأثیر منفی قرار می دهد. نوسان سال به سال بارش از ویژگی های اساسی و بسیار مهم بارش های سالانه ایران محسوب می شود که آثار زیان بار آن در تمام عرصه های اقتصادی، اجتماعی و حتی سیاسی- امنیتی به نحوی منعکس می شود. چون میزان آب ناشی از بارش یکی از مولفه های اصلی برنامه ...

ICT, Public Administration and Democracy in the Coming Decade

Yogi Berra was famous both as a baseball player and as a source of enigmatic epigrams which often carried a subtle truth. One of his most famous observations was that “the future ain’t what it used to be”. Translated, what Berra was saying was that our view of the future changes all the time and yesterday’s forecasts are often today’s source of wry amusement. For this reason amongst others, man...

Democracy and Public Health.