Dieser Band versammelt den reichen Erfahrungsschatz von Praktiker_innen aus Kommunalverwaltungen, politischen Gremien und der Dienstleistungsbranche – sie alle haben ganz konkret an Projekten kommunaler Bürgerbeteiligung mitgewirkt.
Demokratie und Menschenrechte werden im gesellschaftlichen, politischen und teilweise auch im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs nicht selten als Gegensatzpaar dargestellt: Demokratische Entscheidungen können Menschenrechte einschränken oder ihnen schaden, während Menschenrechtspolitik sich negativ auf die demokratische Legitimität auswirken kann.
«Este libro reúne textos de Joseph Ratzinger/Benedicto XVI en torno a un hilo conductor: su gran apuesta —a los creyentes y a los no creyentes— de vivir y organizar nuestra convivencia 'como si Dios existiera'.
Shall Not be Infringed: The New Assaults on Your Second Amendment is a history of the relatively short gun control debate in America and a revealing description of how those hostile to the Second Amendment use polls, studies, and numbers to confuse the public.
The Arab revolutions of 2011 were a transformative moment in the modern history of the Middle East, as people rose up against long-standing autocrats throughout the region to call for bread, freedom and dignity.
Although Irans Islamic Revolution had an electrifying effect on Shiite movements in Lebanon, Iraq, the Gulf and Saudi Arabia, there exists a tendency to explain away much of Shiite politics in the Middle East as inextricably linked to Iranian foreign policy.
Hindu Nationalism in South India engages with a range of factors that shapes the trajectory of Hindu nationalism in Kerala, the southern state of India.
The revered Bible scholar and author of The Historical Jesus explores the Christian culture warsthe debates over church and statefrom a biblical perspective, exploring the earliest tensions evident in the New Testament, and offering a way forward for Christians today.
Climate change has been fueling migration, and, according to some policy reports, there could more than one billion climate migrants/refugees across the world by 2050.
The theory of socialist democracy and the rule of law with Chinese characteristics is one of the important contents of the theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and it is also a basic component of the theoretical system of socialist law with Chinese characteristics.
This book examines transnational civil society-based democracy-promoting resistance activities in Asia in a global era, focusing on the cases of Myanmar and Palestine.
Esta obra, que inaugura la colección Informes AEDEUR, se dedica al que, sin vacilación, es el tema jurídicamente más relevante para la integración europea desde hace años.
El presente trabajo ofrece un análisis de los procesos de reforma constitucional activados en los últimos años que responden a los postulados propios de la democracia deliberativa.
Most South Africans have strong views on our past and present, often based on how we have been personally affected by history, and an understanding of the challenges that face us as a country.
On a freezing winter's night, a few hours before dawn on 12 May 1969, security police stormed the Soweto home of Winnie Mandela and detained her in the presence of her two young daughters, then aged eight and ten.
'Jesús y John Wayne' es una amplia historia revisionista de los últimos setenta y cinco años del evangelismo blanco que revela cómo los evangélicos han trabajado para sustituir al Jesús de los Evangelios por un ídolo de la masculinidad ruda y el nacionalismo cristiano, o en palabras de un capellán moderno, por "un malote espiritual".
La pandemia de la Covid-19 ha supuesto para los Estados democráticos de Derecho un auténtico stress test sobre la capacidad de ofrecer respuestas rápidas, oportunas y flexibles a retos sociales y económicos sin precedentes, sin poner en peligro el equilibrio de la separación de poderes.
«Este libro reúne textos de Joseph Ratzinger/Benedicto XVI en torno a un hilo conductor: su gran apuesta —a los creyentes y a los no creyentes— de vivir y organizar nuestra convivencia 'como si Dios existiera'.
