Kibbutzim differ from one another in democratic and egalitarian practice and in equality itself. We explore hypotheses in 49 kibbutzim that attempt to explain these differences by the opposing effects of a technological imperative that implies a rational striving for economic efiiciency and an ideological imperative that implies a commitment by members to traditional kibbutz values. Cross secti...

The debate on television’s "public service"obligations can only make full sense if integrated in the broader context of the debate on the best political model for society. In fact, the classic "public service"rationale is based in a normative conception of good and in a suspicious view of the average citizen that is largely tributary of a Platonic or Elitist approach to the political organizati...

Civil society is currently a popular concept in the political science literature, appearing across a number of different studies and sub-disciplines. Authors such as Deakin (2001) and Keane (1998) have discussed the widespread employment of the concept where its use ranges from discussions of global civil society in International Relations and the political economy, to civic renewal and social ...

The use of eParticipation by civil society actors is rapidly evolving. New socio-technical tools, devices, applications, services, networks enable a revitalization or foster new forms of social and political actions. Currently the civil society movements adopt and shape them to better organize, inform, communicate, and disseminate their (counter-) public and the traditional political system and...

Human-environment research in the 21st century will need to change in major ways. It will need to integrate the natural and the social sciences; it will need to engage stakeholders and citizens in the design of research and in the delivery of science for the benefit of society; it will need to address ethical and democratic goals; and it will need to address a myriad of important theoretical an...

The world of the future will look upon the world of today as an essentially new turning point in the path of human progress. All over the world the spirit of democratic striving is making itself felt . The new issues have brought forth new ideas of freedom, politics, industry and society at large. The new Negro living in this new world is just as responsive to these new impulses as other people...

The concepts of electronic government and electronic democracy have common roots in that electronic government must rest on, and support, democratic principles. This article discusses how the components of a democratic society are treated as they are built into the emerging electronic infrastruc-tures, dealing with services and dialogues pertinent to the functioning of the public sector, and tr...

using discourse analysis theories and methods, the authors try to analyze the elements of the civil modern family pattern as an outcome and objective adequacy of the civil society in the three descriptive, interpretative and explanative levels in the perspective of the contemporary socio-political history of the iranian society. to this end, the authors develop and employ a synthetic model (bas...

In support to this strike, we developed a pioneering project using the Internet as a democratic media. The aim of this project, named “Cyber-Rally for the Brazilian Universities”, was to increase the pressure on the governmental authorities by allowing the society to express its opinion to them. The Rally home page [1] was used by people to easily send protestation messages to about 800 Brazili...

Criticism, as a precept, has alluded to permanently seeking for quality, pursuing excellence not as an end in itself, but as means for performing its activities, looking into free education as the basis for an egalitarian society. The practice of criticism has also ensured the university ́s autonomy and its democratic posture, and in continuum, has submitted the individual to the natural univers...