In this paper we explore the relations between the Web, governance individual and collective action. We set three questions which arise in relation to the interaction between the Internet and socio-political dynamics. 1. How do we delineate democracy in these new conditions? 2. Does the Internet create a new crisis of political balance or does it intensify an imbalance of a whole political cycl...

From the early modern age, democracy has been regarded as one of key social values, (meant to) secure equal representation all members a community in political decision-making. The roots this mode organization are explicitly linked to ancient role-model, embodied Athenian constitution 5th century. initial knowledge upon which notions founded is derived almost exclusively from preserved written ...

The conventional wisdom, since at least the writings of John Dewey (1916), views high levels of educational attainment as a prerequisite for democracy. Education is argued to promote democracy both because it enables a “culture of democracy” to develop and because it leads to greater prosperity, which is also thought to cause political development. The most celebrated version of this argument i...

This study examines dynamic interrelationships and causality relationships among CO2 emissions, economic, political and financial variables over the period of 1971-2011 for the case of Iran as one of the top CO2 emitting countries in the world. The results of ARDL and Johansen cointegration approaches confirm the existence of long run relationship among CO2 emissions, energy consumption, GDP, f...

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...

A scientific, economic relationship among self, society and nation is still not clearly known in philosophy, sociology and economics because of lack of concrete historical human data that would enable to substantiate it. Humanity experienced many conflicting economic and political systems. Consequently, philosophers, sociologists and economists have been investigating to study the economic rela...

Democracy as an advanced form of politics is not independent from socioeconomic development. This paper examines the developmental threshold for democracy, namely a point in the development process beyond which democracy can be effectively installed and sustained. Based on the two research trends on the issue, a framework of democratic transformation is proposed where two essential factors of s...