This article offers a critical examination of various scholarly works that attempt to study political cultures Russia and Kazakhstan in order explain the ways which participatory trends are taking place. The existing literature on these two countries is impressionistic somehow contradictory. Reviewing recent insights into new types participation both offline online, I argue Almond Verba’s (1963...

News frames are patterns of news construction journalists rely on to present information to their audiences. While much of the research on news frames has focused on their identification and effects, less work has investigated the specific contributions these different frames make to democratic life. Value judgments about distinct news frames are often not generated in a systematic fashion, not...

Abstract Prior consultation (PC) has been an internationally enshrined norm for indigenous peoples’ rights since the 1980s. Indigenous peoples have called PC decades, but when governments finally begin implementation, a paradox results: previous advocates increasingly turn away from processes. I argue that only with perspective norms are and should be contested “on ground,” we able to understan...

Over recent decades a structural transformation has affected agriculture in frontier areas of Malaysian Borneo and Outer Island Indonesia with the rapid conversion of agricultural lands, fallows, and formerly forested areas into oil palm. These frontiers have similar positions in the international political economy of oil palm and have complementary resource endowments. Yet there are also signi...

Transnational political communication today is being reconfigured by digital technologies and global power transition. Authoritarian state actors such as China are increasingly active on social media platforms Twitter to directly advance their preferred frames with foreign publics in Western democracies, most notably what could be called Chinese Twiplomacy contesting narrative globally over con...

This article focuses on the conflictual relations at heart of what we call ‘municipal contestation’. global phenomenon sees cities and other local governments – sometimes together with non-governmental players contest policies proposed or implemented by higher governmental authorities, which they perceive as threats to their policy positions communities. Bridging public studies social movement ...

Introduction This paper applies the thought of Jacques Rancière to the concept of democracy as it is traditionally understood in library studies literature. Methods The paper reviews a cross-section of instances of the link between democracy and the public library in library studies literature. It offers a close textual analysis of Michael Gorman's Our Enduring Values as typifying the link betw...

Conventional models of ‘transitions to democracy’ are incomplete and insufficient for the analysis of the regime changes in Russia and other post-Soviet societies, which go beyond the usual textbook cases. This article reconsiders conceptual frameworks for the analysis of democracy and democratization in the light of the experience of postSoviet political developments. The distinction between t...