A selected round-up of democracy in the news. All opinions are those of their respective owners and do not reflect the opinions of H-Democracy.
1) Make School a Democracy
2) Why Lesotho's election is a crucial test for African democracy
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Interrogating the In-between: UNSW Humanities and Languages Postgraduate Research Conference 2015
School of Humanities and Languages, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Friday June 12th 2015
Across all disciplines in the Humanities and Languages, researchers attempt to call binary distinctions into question, whether: Self/ Other; Subject/ Object; Past/ Future; Occident/ Orient; East/ West; Identity/ Difference; Being/ Nothing; Woman/ Man; Reality/ Virtuality.
Qualitative Research Course, Romania
RELIGION, MAGIC AND MODERNIZATION
ANTH 440/540 Summer Field Study (Romania)
Students are invited to take part in this year's three-week study visit to Bucovina,
A selected round-up of democracy in the news. All opinions are those of their respective owners and do not reflect the opinions of H-Democracy.
Article #3 about political shoo-ins being bad for democracy is about large scale offices. But I think the issue isn't so much "political shoo-ins" as it is access to preexisting political campaign and fundraising networks. I have blogged in the past about how DC local elections have been integrated into the "city-wide" Growth Machine.
http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/2012/11/dc-at-large-city-counci...
