This article explores the influence of information overload on online democratic processes. The study of this question is motivated by the increasing importance of the doctrine of transparency, by the central role of the paradigm of informed citizenship in contemporary political thought, and by the empirical observation that the modern citizen is exposed to increasing amounts of political data....

Inspired by the recent Democratic National Primary, we consider settings in which the members of a distributed population must balance their individual preferences over candidates with a requirement to quickly achieve collective unity. We formalize such settings as the “Democratic Primary Problem” (DPP) over an undirected graph, whose local structure models the social influences acting on

This article presents the results of a research on transformation processes for creating more democratic and inclusive schools. Through multiple case study four Spanish schools, authors analyse how actors involved in participatory action mobilise knowledge education. The explore strategies that favour said mobilisation when inclusive, community curricular practices are implemented. These carrie...

humans, since their creation, have experienced different political systems. in addition, it seems that the training in families is the key to open the future; therefore, it is expected that the family system of each human society nurtures and trains future humans and prepares the present generation for the future. the task of families is to empower all members of a society to develop their hidd...