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Cross-Border Cooperation between Slovakia and Ukraine: Volume IV: Perceptions of local and regional actors

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This publication is the latest of a series of four publications that present the findings of the research project titled the “Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine and Cross-border Cooperation between Slovakia and Ukraine: Implications and Opportunities”. The research project was implemented by the Institute of Political Science at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prešov and supported by the Slovak Research and DevelopmentAgency over the period of 2016 ‒ 2019 (project no. APVV-15-0369). This fourth publication presents the results of empirical research focused on perceptions, preferences, motivations and strategies of regional and local actors on both sides of the border. The book entitled Cross-BorderCooperation between Slovakia and Ukraine: Volume IV: Perceptions of Localand Regional Actors, co-authored by Michal Cirner, Martin Lačný, Anna Polačková and Gabriel Székely, consists of two extensive scientific studies.The first one provides interpretation of the empirical research results at the local level, and is divided into nine sub-chapters, focusing on different sets of issues from the structured questionnaire for local CBC actors: migration and social interaction; identifying barriers to interaction and cross-border cooperation; perceptions and ideas about the residents on the other side of the border; evaluation of cross-border cooperation policies; the expected impact of cross-border cooperation; expected impacts of the EU AssociationAgreement with Ukraine. The second study, presenting interpretationof empirical data obtained at regional level, is structured according to thestructure of the questionnaire for regional CBC actors and thus similarly to the study at local level, but includes one extra sub-chapter, tracking a set of questions focused on types and levels of mutual economic interaction. The final part of both studies consists of the interpretation of correlation analysis results and the final commentary in the form of policy considerations.

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Deconstruction on the (semi)periphery

Author(s): Michał Przeperski / Language(s): English Issue: 06 (49)/2021

Review of: Michał Przeperski - Postkolonialne historiografie. Casus jednego średniowiecza (Postcolonial historiographies. The case of a certain medieval period). By: Anton Saifullayeu. Publisher: Oficyna Wydawnicza ASPRA-JR, Warsaw, 2020.

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Deliberative Democracy: The Case of Slovenia

Author(s): Miro Haček,Simona Kukovič / Language(s): English Issue: 27/2020

In Europe and across the world, many countries are turning to deliberative democracy to reform their constitutions, and in many others this question is high on the political agenda. Such transformation also shuffles quite radically the role of the citizenry regarding constitutional changes. Traditionally such changes are the sole responsibility of elected officials in collaboration with experts. With the deliberative turn, many more actors may be involved in the designing of constitutions, from citizens both individually and collectively in the forms of informal associations to various civil society organisations. The main aim of this paper is to analyse potential of deliberative democracy in Slovenian national setting, therefore authors are analysing a) framework of constitution making dynamics and b) most successful deliberative democratic tools and opportunities developed so far on both national and sub-national levels of the Slovenian government. As deliberative democracy is well known political phenomenon, we will start not by yet another theoretical pandemonium, but with less-known Slovenian contribution to the global development of deliberative model.

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DEMOCRACY AND THE RIGHTS OF NON-MAJORITY COMMUNITIES AT THE LOCAL LEVEL IN KOSOVO

Author(s): Besim Myrtezani,Ferdi Kamberi / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

Democratic governance has to do with the majority's will, respecting the rights of communities and all citizens' well-being. In Kosovo, the rights of communities are regulated by the constitution and legislation, which guarantee the special rights of minority communities. One of the fundamental policies of governmental institutions was about decentralizing local self-government, designed to facilitate the creation of new municipalities of communities and their integration into the local institutions. Our purpose was to search and analyze the level of representation of communities in the local institutions, legal mechanisms that guarantee their rights, challenges in putting the rights of communities into practice, and the political steps that must be taken to achieve so. The methodology is based on quantitative research with 500 (five hundred) respondents in three municipalities: Pristina, Gracanica, and Dragash, where 59% of respondents are male and 41% are female. The results show that about 55% of the communities are somewhat satisfied with the constitutional guarantees, and 38% are represented in the institutional life of Kosovo. Implementing legal mechanisms has allowed the communities to have higher representation at institutional levels and be part of Kosovo society’s integrative processes.

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DEMOCRACY STATE AND AUTOCRATIZATION FEATURES IN THE REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA

Author(s): Dorina Bërdufi,Afrim Krasniqi / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

This article examines the Albanian political regime, as a single case study, for the period 2013-2021, as part of the Western Balkans' experience of democratic backsliding, by investigating the framework of factors linked with the formidable challenge posed by the emergence of a hybrid regime of Albania in these years. For the first time in Albania’s post-communist history, the incumbent Socialist Party of Albania won for the third time in a row the parliamentary elections of April 2021, thus making the bid for the power of the leading opposition parties much harder. This paper uses country-expert statistical data from V-Dem and qualitative data analyses. The study reveals that the over-reliance on strong leaders, the growing government control over public life, fragmentation of the opposition, its lack of appeal, organization and mobilization, the boycott of the parliamentary mandates, combined with the weakening role of media and distrust of the citizens in democratic institutions, led to the resurgence of the authoritarian mechanisms, making the liberal democratic transformation in Albania an increasingly challenging task.

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DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND CHALLENGES OF THE SOCIETIES IN TRANSITION: THE CASE OF KOSOVO

Author(s): Ferdi Kamberi,Arianit Abazi / Language(s): English Issue: Supp. 1/2021

The development of new technologies is considered a revolution because it has interconnected micro and macro cultures, has influenced socio-economic developments, and is gradually transferring our social life to the virtual one. Today, life without information technology is unimaginable and every communication is done through new technologies. On the other hand, the privacy and misuse of personal data are directly endangering personal freedom. The Balkan countries are as well part of this technological development but are also heavily challenged by different unidentified risks. Kosovo has a young population and is considered to have the youngest population in Europe. About 96.4% of households have access to the internet. This paper aims to analyze the development of new technologies in societies in transition, especially in Kosovo, the challenges, the issue of privacy, and the future of information technology. The methodology applied within this paper is the study of literature and the development of qualitative research. The findings demonstrate that Kosovo has quickly embraced information technology, digitized its public services, and installed some of the region's most cutting-edge technologies, such as 3D printers, but it is also highly vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

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DIASPORA AND IDENTITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE: CULTURAL COMMUNITIES AND THE NATION

Author(s): Vandana Pednekar-Magal / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The following article is based on a keynote speech on Diaspora and Identity in the digital age. Cultural Communities and the Nation delivered at Media Culture Days at the College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on May 17, 2019

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DIFFERENT SCENARIOS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION’S AGENDA 2030

Author(s): Goran Bandov,Nikolina Herceg Kolman / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

This article examines the potential for implementation of Agenda 2030 in the EU. In the first part, the article outlines how the EU shifted and adapted its policy framework after the adoption of the Agenda 2030. In the second part, it analyzes the role of governance for the implementation of the Agenda and possible scenarios for the implementation of the Agenda 2030 in the EU. In the final part, the article examines scenarios for the future of the EU, as defined in the White Paper for the Future of Europe in 2017, concluding that comprehensive implementation of the Agenda is possible only under the scenario in which all EU member states do much more together, but with an important caveat.

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Diplomacy and Diplomatic Protocol

Author(s): Oana Iucu / Language(s): English Issue: 08/2008

The present study aims to observe relationships and determining factors between diplomacy and diplomatic protocol as outlined by historical and contextual analyses. The approach is very dynamic, provided that concepts are able to show their richness, antiquity and poly-valence at the level of connotations, semantics, grammatical and social syntax. The fact that this information is up to date determines an attitude of appreciation and a state of positive contamination.

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Diskurs „post-istine”: gdje je nestala istina u politici?

Author(s): Leon Cvrtila / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2019

This article deals with analysis and interpretations of “post-truth” discourse. The term “post-truth” is surrounded by a set of narratives which came into being during 2016, inspired by the events of Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidential election. Using the approach of critical discourse analysis and insights of Pierre Bourdieu, I construct a framework for collection and analysis of discourse, but also for interpreting it in the context of the discourse-society relation. Using internet search engines, 419 (of which 203 have been analysed) relevant articles have been collected among news sites, online magazines, academic blogs, etc. This content was systemically categorized and presented in a diachronic and thematic manner. After analysis and interpretation, the “posttruth” discourse is found to function as an attempt at drawing the lines of political struggle through presenting a particular interpretation of contemporary political and social phenomena. The key term “truth” is identified in the discourse as an universal value that is currently endangered by populists and demagogues using unregulated media spaces of social networks. The “post-truth” discourse calls upon unification around the ideal of “truth” under the leadership of those which have the greatest insight into “truth” – scientists, experts and even journalists, understood as carriers of epistemic virtue. In the end I discuss the usefulness and future of the term “post-truth”. Even though it attempts to understand and describe contemporary social change, this attempt is burdened by its political demands, and thus doesn’t meet the criteria to make it a useful analytic term in social science. I criticise it’s depoliticizing vision, where “epistemically-deprived” enemies are disqualified in moral terms, denying the legitimacy of their demands and representations. The “post-truth” dis- course also demands the creation of new institutions for the purpose of information control on the internet, opening the gates to arbitrary censorship and concentrating discursive power in narrow groups, all based on an unclear idea of “truth”. The conclusion offers avenues for further research which could help to further understand the discursive-social aspect of “post-truth” as well as the phenomena that inspire it.

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Dlaczego polityka okalecza rozmowę. Pesymistyczna analiza porównawcza z optymistyczną konkluzją

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Dlaczego polityka okalecza rozmowę. Pesymistyczna analiza porównawcza z optymistyczną konkluzją

Author(s): Iwona Barwicka-Tylek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

Contemporary political discourse often refers to dialogue and conversation as an important, if not the most important, element of a healthy democracy. Improving communication between public authorities and citizens, as well as between citizens themselves, is the goal of numerous practical democratic innovations. In the article, the historical perspective is used to argue that there is at least one obstacle which impedes a reliable democratic dialogue. The obstacle in question is the loss of dialectical competence, the causes of which I analyze referring to ancient philosophical debates on the role of the word in politics. Dialectic had been seen as the art of wise conversation since antiquity, but it soon fell victim to intellectual battles among philosophers, who saw it, at best, as a method of reaching the truth, and sophists, for whom dialectic was mainly a tool to creatively manipulate opinions of others. The unique political value of dialectic had been neglected over time and thus the dialogue itself became mutilated: deprived of the important prefix ‘dia-’ and reduced to the possibility of mere articulation of one’s opinions and interests. I argue that the restoration of genuine dialogue in a democracy requires a deeper understanding of the nature of dialectical opinions engaged in political conversation, and the correct application of the dialectical method in the Aristotelian sense of the term.

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DOES COLLECTIVE ACTION INSTITUTIONALIZE RATIONAL CHOICE? CANDIDATE SELECTION IN INDONESIAN POLITICAL PARTIES

Author(s): Andi Luhur Prianto,Achmad Nurmandi,Zuly Qodir,Hasse Jubba / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

The selection process for local head candidates in the electoral democracy in Indonesia is still closed and confidential. Recruitment regulations are insufficient to control the informal actions of the candidate selection process, which is based on political pragmatism. This paper examines the dynamics of local head candidate selection from the rational choice institutionalism approach, with the collective action perspective. The research method uses content analysis, with analyzed interpretively using the NVivo 12 plus application. Research findings show that candidate selection in political parties is not entirely based on supply and demand but as a rational choice formed from the collective actions of party elites. In deciding the mayoral candidate in Makassar City in Indonesia 2020, political parties are influenced by collective mentality, individual quality, group size and resources in political parties. The conclusion is that the rational choice institutionalism approach through the practices of principal-agent, game-theory and rule-based models occurs in the selection of local head candidates. This rational choice institutionalism approach explains the tension between political actors to maximize personal and group interests in political party institutions.

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Dynamics of Deconsolidating Democracies of Poland, Hungary and Romania

Author(s): Flavius Cristian Mărcău / Language(s): English Issue: 14/2019

The deconsolidation of democracy is a new phenomenon which is not provided forin the specialized works. This phenomenon was supposed to be unlikely or possible only through acoup d’etat or after a war. But countries such as Poland, Hungary and Romania (in an incipientform) have shown us that functional democracy can be diluted as a cosequence of some controversialpolitical measures. In this study we aim at observing what has happened in these three states and towhat extent deconsolidation of democracy has been possible and especially if this process is a reversibleone. We want to understand if this democratic deconstruction can appear in young democratic states ormay appear at random, irrespective of the democratic tradition present in that state.

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Eastern European Journal for Regional Studies (EEJRS)

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Moldova, Republic of

<p>The Eastern European Journal of Regional Studies (EEJRS) journal seeks to provide theoretical development, empirical analysis and policy debate in the multi- and inter-disciplinary with main focus on the field of innovation, entrepreneurship and regional development, as well as European History, European Economy, politics, European culture and society, EU law etc. EEJRS encourages theoretical and practical studies focusing on the regional aspect (including EU neighborhood) in order to better understand the integration process and to address its specific challenges, transformations and achievements. EEJRS is a two times peer-reviewed academic journal (June and December). More information about EEJRS is displayed on its webpage - http://csei.ase.md/journal/</p>

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Ecological Humanities

Author(s): Ewa Domańska / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

The article will define and identify features of the ecological humanities understood as a symptom of the emergence of a new scientific paradigm. I am interested particularly I ecoposthumanities– a tendency that is developing since the late nineties in the frame of posthumanist criticism of anthropocentrism, Eurocentrism and Western science. The paper will indicate the role of traditional ecological knowledges and native knowledges as well as the development of biohumanities (an inclusive type of knowledge that connects human, social sciences and life sciences) as important aspects of ecoposthumanities. The ecological humanities offers an utopian vision of meta-communities of humans and non-humans based on symbiotic relations, co-evolution and co-dependency and anticipates future knowledge productions in terms of extended mind and distributed cognition.

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Economic Status and Elections: The Voting Behaviour and Economic Hardship in Rome

Author(s): Giovanni Brancato,Gabriella D’ambrosio,Marco Palmieri / Language(s): English Issue: 78/2022

Empirical research shows the existence of a relationship between the electoral behaviour of citizens and their economic condition. The economic voting theory explains that in periods of economic growth citizens-voters reward the government considered the author of their well-being; on the contrary, in times of crisis, the population punishes it. The peculiarity of these studies, based on the analysis of secondary data designed for other primary purposes, is to have national territorial dimension, where the percentage of votes collected by government/opposition parties in political national elections is associated to the country’s macro-economic indicators (for example, GDP or unemployment rate). Nevertheless, up to now, only few scholars have analysed this relationship at local level, due to the lack of local statistical data on citizens’ economic conditions. This study tries to fill this gap. It is conducted in the city of Rome, to understand whether the electoral behaviour of Roman citizens changes in function of their economic hardship, in each of the 15 Municipalities of the capital city of Italy. To this end, two different data sources are integrated: Electoral Statistical Office of Rome and Italian Revenue Agency. The results offer empirical evidence to strengthen the local relation between electoral behaviour and economic conditions.

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EMERGING POWER IN INDUSTRIALIZATION: EMPOWERING INDIA THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Author(s): Sayak Pal,N. Thilaka,Sharmila Kayal / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

The ‘soft power’ can be brought forward and achieved for any developing country through softer means. Advertising (both direct and indirect approach) is a powerful tool for disseminating information to various stakeholders concerning the MSME sector. To introspect the potentiality of India’s MSME’s emerging power, the researchers attempted to answer the different components that shaped Indian industrialization over the years and also analyzed the direct and indirect audio-visual advertisements created on MSMEs to encourage entrepreneurial activities throughout the nation. The observation indicates that direct and indirect advertisements that promote and encourage the growth of entrepreneurship have their advantages and disadvantages; however, direct advertisements are proven to be preferred over indirect advertisements, while the reason behind it can be the dilution of concept or the prominence of commercialization.

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Empirijski pristupi istraživanja moći u lokalnim zajednicama (Metod odlučivanja)

Author(s): Ivan Grdešić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 04/1985

The interest in the study of power in local communities is due to the crucial significance of power for political science. The basic questions to be Investigated can be classified according to Spinrad as issues of: (1) methodology; (2) motivation; (3) mode of decision-making; (4) position of social groups and individuals; (5) the link between the ratio power and the character of social milieu. Despite differences in approach and findings, all enquiries may be described as searching for an answer to the crucial question: who wields influence on the major political and social processes in a community? Three methods have become synonymous with research of power in local communities: the positional, the reputational and the decision-making methods. The author attempts an exhaustive interpretation of the postulates, scope and consequences of the decision-making method.

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Epistemic Value of Public deliberation in a Democratic Decision-мaking Process

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Epistemic Value of Public deliberation in a Democratic Decision-мaking Process

Author(s): Ivan Cerovac / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

This paper discusses the epistemic value of public deliberation in a democratic decision-making process. I first discuss David Estlund’s standard account of epistemic democracy – in order to be legitimate, a decision must be a result of both fair and epistemically reliable procedure, i.e., of procedure that in most cases leads us to (procedure-independent) correct outcomes. This approach is characterized by the idea that democratic deliberation only has instrumental epistemic value, i.e., serves as a good means to achieve desired ends – a high correctness probability of the outcomes. I defend this approach from three objections put forward by Fabienne Peter, who claims that Estlund’s position is not a practicable conception of democratic legitimacy, that it makes unnecessary demands and that it is normatively misleading. Finally, I argue against pure epistemic proceduralism, an alternative approach that tends to reject consequentialist epistemology in favor of proceduralist epistemology. By doing so, it has lost a way to evaluate the epistemic value of (deliberative) democratic procedures, and is thus vulnerable to the problem of various (reasonable) people holding different epistemic practices and disagreeing on which practice should be the one that is epistemically valuable and that produces legitimate decisions.

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Europinė dimensija Lietuvos referendumų kampanijose

Author(s): Aušrinė Jurgelionytė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 71/2015

The referenda of the 21st century were also inevitably related with the European dimension: the referendum in 2003 on the membership of the Republic of Lithuania in the European Union (EU); the referendum of 2008 on exceeding the operation of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP); the referendum of 2013 on building a new nuclear power plant in the Republic of Lithuania; and the referendum of 2014 on land for sale to foreigners. These four referenda are the object of this paper. It analyses the reflections of the European dimension in the referenda campaigns. The campaign slogans are mainly taken into account when reconstructing various discursive devices. The explanatory power of the new institutionalism (discursive) theories is discussed.

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