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The Democratic Boundary Problem – A Function-Sensitive View
In response to the democratic boundary problem, two principles have been seen as competitors: the all-affected interests principle and the all-subjected principle. This article claims that these principles are in fact compatible, being justified vis-à-vis ...
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Should the people control public spending? A normative assessment of balanced budget constitutional amendments
Should the people control public spending? A normative assessment of balanced budget constitutional amendments During the XX century, many western countries introduced balanced budget constitutional amendments (BBCA), i.e. they reformed their constitution ...
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The Privatized State
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies invites Chiara Cordelli for a talk entitled "The Privatized State." Prof. Cordelli will be discussing a chapter of her recent book with the same title, The Privatized State. About the Book Many governme ...
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Prof. Annabelle Lever (Sciences Po Paris): Democracy in Selection
Should we replace elections with lotteries? Bernard Manin’s famous book on representative government first taught many of us that the Greeks thought of elections as an aristocratic, not a democratic, way to select people for political power and authority ...
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Marc Hecker and Élie Tenenbaum: The End of the War on Terror?
The lecture will draw on the book The Twenty Years’ War: Jihadism and Counterterrorism in the XXIst Century. Based on several years of field investigations, this book, which was recently awarded the Prix du livre géopolitique, offers the first history of ...
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D.Rad Symposium: Trends of Radicalization in Europe and Beyond
The Symposium will present the findings of 17 countries on trends of radicalization in Europe and the Middle East. The reports analyze specific moments – or “hotspots” – of radicalization in historical, social, and cultural context and are part of the D.R ...
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Why Open Democracy?
This paper examines open democracy, the conception of democracy introduced by Hélène Landemore in her recent book of the same name. Open democracy offers both an institutional paradigm and a specification of democratic values underlying it. It differs fro ...
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Lecture: Ambassador Muriel Domenach
In conjunction with the D.Rad comparative research project on radicalization trends and deradicalization policies in Europe and beyond, AUP’s Center for Critical Democracy Studies is delighted to present a lecture by Ambassador Muriel Domenach. The Ambass ...
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CCDS Presents: Frank Ruda, “The Excluded and Grotesque Sovereigns. Luhmann, Foucault, Hegel”
The AUP Center for Critical Democracy Studies in partnership with the College International de Philosophie presents, the Oliver Feltham’s philosophy research seminar “Genealogy and Comparative Ontology of Political Action in European Modernity” in its fou ...
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CCDS Presents: Gilles Marmasse, "L'homme dans l'Etat selon Hegel"
Le Centre d’études de la démocratie critique de l’AUP (CCDS), en partenariat avec le College International de Philosophie, présente le séminaire de recherche en philosophie d’Oliver Feltham «Généalogie et ontologie comparée de l’action politique dans la m ...