The Bandung Spirit: Nation State and Democracy

A New Spirit : The Hawaiian Nation

Hawai'i today is a microcosm of the many problems suffered by the United States generally. Society is plagued with inequality and injustice, an over-emphasis on economic priorities, an imbalance between humans and nature, an increasingly unrepresentative democracy, a lack of future consciousness, and an unstable economy. The values which predominate in Hawai'i are borrowed from those of the gre...

The Judiciary and Democracy: to the Rescue of the Spirit of the Spirit

Shari’ah, Democracy, and the Modern Nation-State: Some Reflections on Islam, Popular Rule, and Pluralism

In this article, the author examines two considerations that are critical to a full and meaningful assessment of the degree to which Islam, and Islamic law in particular, can find authentic expressions of themselves under what may reasonably be considered a democratic form of government. The first of these has to do with the scope of Islamic law, or more properly, the scope of the interpretive ...

The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State

The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher level of economic development. JEL ...

The Challenges Facing State-Nation-Building in Israel

Completing the nation-building process for survival is one of the challenges that the Zionist regime has always faced. This regime has based its existence on a specific and complex identity that, at first glance, can be a strong point for the survival and formation of a society, but the specific characteristics of this identity based on race and population inequality, for This has posed some ch...