Abstract The international community increasingly promotes referendums as it intervenes in self-determination conflicts around the world. However, ability of to bring about peace remains uncertain. This paper develops argument that conflict resolution potential is conditional, depending on whether or not they are held under mutual agreement relevant minority and majority groups. When mutually a...

Joshua Cohen In this essay I explore the ideal of a 'deliberative democracy'.1 By a deliberative democracy I shall mean, roughly, an association whose affairs are governed by the public deliberation of its members. I propose an account of the value of such an association that treats democracy itself as a fundamental political ideal and not simply as a derivative ideal that can be explained in t...

The theory proposed by Jurgen Habermas is that public spaces and communicative actions can be applied to the world of libraries, Cahaya Ilmu library SMAN 1 Bengkulu Tengah one district-level school libraries has adequate facilities as a space. purpose this study was see relationship between reviewed at Tengah. This type research uses field research. As result, said space whose activities requir...

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 ...