...A Manifesto to the Chilean People Democratic Party This document from the inauguration of Chile’s first proworker party protests the oligarchic politics of the Parliamentary Republic and demands a truly representa- tive system of government. The Democratic Party’s manifesto also...

...The United Democratic Front Allan Boesak Grand apartheid aimed to define South Africa as a white country, allowing Africans to have political aspirations only in rural homelands. With the rethinking forced by the Soweto Uprising and other events of the 1970s, the apartheid state sought...

... [ 5 ] CONSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE AND THE IMMANENCE OF DEMOCRATIC SOVEREIGNTY RudolfSmend, Hermann Heller, and the Basic Principles of the Constitution Despite their many differences...

... ChaPter​one –​ crafting a dEMocratic subjEct? The​Foucauldian​Ethics​of​Self-​Care Care​for​others​should​not​be​put​before​the​care​of​oneself.​The​care​ of​the​self​is​ethically​prior​in​that​the...

... ChaPter​three –​ thE dEMocratic Ethics of carE for Worldly things Res​means​what​concerns​men. —martin​heiDegger Each​object​gathers​around​itself​a​different​assembly​of​relevant​parties. —Bruno​Latour To​question...

... ePiLogue –​ sElf/othEr/World Forging​Connections​and​Fostering​Democratic​Care The​ preceding​ pages​ have​ conceptualized​ and​ advocated​ a​ democratic​ethos​focused​on​collaborative​care​for...

... channel popular demands, as they had in the past. This institutional crisis produced a vacuum partly compensated by the judicialization of social conflict, which transferred public demands from the executive to the judiciary. Democratic rule created a new role for the legal system, including...

... presidential election positioned Bachelet’s life story and personal traits as the point of departure in tracing the evolu- tion of political culture over the past two decades after the formal transi- tion to democratic rule. Issues such as the significance of this event for the correlation of forces...

...Representative/Democracy: Presidents, Democratic Management, and the Unfinished Business of Male Sentimentalism DANA D. NELSON People are not born knowing how to be represented, any more than they are born knowing how to be...

... Publicity, and the Conditions of Democratic Citizenship 6976 Apostolidis / PUBLIC AFFAIRS...

...Issue 4: Intrinsic Value Implies No Use and a Threat to Democratic Governance A Practical Concept of Nature’s Intrinsic Value John Martin Gillroy Basing policy on the intrinsic value of nature is both practical and necessary to moving away from the overuse of the environment by the...

...Conclusion: Democratic Competence, Accountability, and Education in the Twenty-first Century I think the more democracy, the better, on these types of issues. The more points of access for the public to use, the better.—Bob Pepperman Taylor The democratic process, for elected leaders, is...

... Thesis Eight INSTITUTIONS IN THE SPHERES OF DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY AND FEASIBILITY: EQUALITY AND LIBERTY: GOVERNABILITY8 [8.1] THE ‘‘FORMAL’’ SPHERE OF DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY [8.1.1] I refer to as ‘‘formal’’ the sphere that deals with the form or procedure necessary for an...

... Thesis Ten THE FORMAL-DEMOCRATIC AND FEASIBILITY PRINCIPLES10 OF POLITICS [10.0.1] Table 2 depicts the complexity of the structural order of the three architectonic levels suggested above [» 6.01], from the point of view of norma...

... Thesis Fourteen THE CRITICAL-DEMOCRATIC AND STRATEGIC TRANSFORMATION PRINCIPLES14 [14.1] THE CRITICAL-DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLE [14.1.1] The fulfillment of the normative democratic principle allows for legiti- mate actions and for the...

... Thesis Nineteen TRANSFORMATION OF INSTITUTIONS IN THE SPHERE OF DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY: IRRUPTION OF NEW RIGHTS: ‘‘PERPETUAL PEACE’’ AND ALTERITY19 [19.1] THE POSTULATE OF ‘‘PERPETUAL PEACE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE EXCLUDED: ALTERITY [19.1.1...

... § 18. The People and the Democratic Constitution I. The people anterior to and above the constitution. Under democracy, the people are the subject of the constitution-making power. The democratic understanding sees every constitution, even...

... PART II RUINS AND THE DEMOCRATIC POLITY ANDREAS SCHÖNLE 5 MODERNITY AS A ‘‘DESTROYED ANTHILL’’ Tolstoy on History and the Aesthetics of Ruins We left the city [Moscow], lit by the most beautiful...

... RUSSELL A. BERMAN 6 DEMOCRATIC DESTRUCTION Ruins and Emancipation in the American Tradition Johann Tischbein’s famous Goethe in the Roman Campagna, painted in 1787, places the poet in a landscape strewn with the ruins of...

... 12 Romand Coles HUNGER, ETHICS, AND THE UNIVERSITY A Radical Democratic Goad in Ten Pieces This is an immoderate essay, forged at once in the flames of a radical democratic ethos and a deep suspicion regarding a sub- stantial portion of what is called ‘‘moral...