Search results
stateless and the internally displaced, or the refugee from the local resident, each affected in their own way by the war. Other than his captions, there is little that distinguishes the refugees he photographed from other war-touched civilians he portrayed across Europe. Hine’s captions remain mute on the loss of political representation, or of the difficulties faced by some political, ethnic or religious groups versus others in (re)settling. This lack of detail may be the result of the broad and imprecise concept of refugees Hine was operating with. It is also a sign of
Whether called pressure groups, NGOs, social movement organisations or organised civil society, the value of ‘groups’ to the policy process, to economic growth, to governance, to political representation and to democracy has always been contested. However, there seems to be a contemporary resurgence in this debate, largely centred on their democratising potential: can groups effectively link citizens to political institutions and policy processes? Are groups an antidote to emerging democratic deficits? Or do they themselves face challenges in demonstrating their legitimacy and representativeness? This book debates the democratic potential and practice of groups, focusing on the vibrancy of internal democracies, and modes of accountability with those who join such groups and to the constituencies they advocate for. It draws on literatures covering national, European and global levels, and presents empirical material from the UK and Australia.
Representational democracy is at the heart of the UK’s political constitution, and the electoral system is central to achieving it. But is the first-past-the-post system used to elect the UK parliament truly representative? To answer that question requires an understanding of several factors: debates over the nature of representation; the evolution of the current electoral system; how first-past-the-post distorts electoral politics; and how else elections might be conducted. Running through all these debates are issues over the representation not only of people but also of places. The book examines all of these issues and focuses on the effect of geography on the operation of the electoral system.
Staff Commission has a general duty to enhance local government but its existence reflected both the limited size of local government and continuing government concern with fair employment practices. Politics and local government Throughout the operation of direct rule local government functioned as a major forum for the expression of the views of the electorate and local government was the major platform for local political representation outside the Westminster Parliament. Despite local government operating with limited functions its political role was important
, while ethnographers located them in typological descriptions: ‘the Emberá are like that’, as if the Emberá have always been the same. In this respect, the mystical image of the Emberá with the loincloth or the paruma, hides from view the possibility that Emberá life had always embraced change. As we are about to see, the Emberá would soon modernise their wardrobe and reorganise their political representation, only to rediscover their ‘traditional’ clothes once more. Episode two: resettling in concentrated communities The next episode in my story of Emberá clothes
. The diverse issues explored here – from women’s political representation to gender-based violence and abortion – are linked and embedded within a structural and cultural gender order which invariably privileges masculinity and male power. Regardless of the rhetoric and widespread sense of optimism in the initial aftermath of the 1998 Agreement, this chapter argues that traditional forms of male power and dominance are a feature of Northern Irish life that remains uninterrupted by the peace process. Gender and conflict
information and, as such, statistical information went hand in hand with political authority. Statistics on livestock and crop production were at the centre of debates on livestock disease legislation, the development of the railway network and even the nature of political representation in the Cape. 17 Statistics formed the basis of ‘true knowledge’, which, so far as they were concerned, was what provided
not always vary positively with levels of democratic practice. I suggest instead that technologies of rule that enable concerns for social welfare can exist quite independently of European-derived ideas and institutions of political representation and government administration. Could these non-European practices suggest ways to approach social welfare challenges beyond the specific case of China, which is the main subject of this Bayly 04_Tonra 01 21/06/2011 10:20 Page 104 104 History, historians and development policy chapter? If so, our textbook understanding
is finished. It’s over. Some say that the party can still be changed, but Labour can’t be changed. Maybe there will have to be a new political party for workers’ sometime down the road … Let’s go ahead with a People’s Charter and win over the hearts and minds of workers to ensure better political representation for our class.25 The beginning of this new political formation was the founding of the No2EU electoral alliance in early 2009. Its slogan in the 2009 European elections was ‘Yes to democracy’, but it changed to ‘Yes to workers’ rights’ in the 2014 European
those championing political representation for women. To these veterans of the ‘Bulgarian atrocities’ agitation, and those fresh from recent campaigns over the Ottoman treatment of Christians in Armenia and Crete, the memory of Gladstone was never far away, his reputation as an icon of liberal internationalism soon to be sealed by Morley’s celebrated