globalization and democracy have become the most debated issues throughout the world, which, no doubt also influence iran. this paper highlights these phenomena with respect to iran but takes up the issue through various description and features presented by the con-temporary socio- political thinkers and economists. considering globalization, although the subject matter is very recent but iran...

At a recent conference on democratization, one of the Latin Americanists present was overheard saying, "been there, done that." Such comments reflect the views of many Latin Americanists, who, having experienced prior waves of democratization, are perhaps justifiably skeptical about the durability of the current wave. Rather than speaking of long-term trends, we are used to looking at waves of ...

This is a response to Luca Tomini's “Don't think of wave!” and Svend-Erik Skaaning's “Waves autocratization democratization”. With this rejoinder we make three arguments: First, the question how global waves shape processes regime transformations now more urgent than ever. Since 1994, civil liberties political rights one third population have been substantially increasingly reduced due autocrat...

It has become commonplace among Western scholars to treat supposed processes of “democratization” in terms “waves” since Samuel Huntington’s seminal book published 1991—The Third Wave. The literature on “democratization the Arab world” is no exception, and some have labeled uprisings that began late 2010 “fourth wave democratization”. main research question this article whether consists genuine...

Andrew Feenberg’s political philosophy of technology uniquely connects the neo-Marxist tradition with phenomenological approaches to technology. This paper investigates how this connection shapes Feenberg’s analysis of power. Influenced by De Certeau and by classical positions in philosophy of technology, Feenberg focuses on a dialectical model of oppression versus liberation. A hermeneutic rea...

The objective of this paper is to explore questions of human agency and democratic process in the technical sphere through the example of "virtual community." The formation of relatively stable long term group associations community in the broad sense of the term is the scene on which a large share of human development occurs. As such it is a fundamental human value mobilizing diverse ideologie...

This article explores how the Russia-Belarus relationship has countered external forces that have been shown to promote democratization. It seeks to answer the following questions: According to the democratization literature, what external factors make democratization more likely? How have RussiaBelarus ties countered these factors? And, how best can the United States and the European Union pro...

Scholars continue to grapple with the question of the relationship between economic development and democratization; prominent recent research has focused on the effects of economic inequality. Boix suggests that democratization is likelier when inequality is low, whereas Acemoglu and Robinson argue that democratization is likelier when inequality is at middling levels. Both assume that democra...

the goal of this research is to study the policy of democratization of culture and is trying to find out whether democratization of museums leads to democratization of art or its only result is accumulation of artistic behaviors. deploying pierre bourdieu’s theory who believes that “the love of art” is the result of cultural capital and utilizing surveys with the method of quantity evaluation a...