Wiki Government shows how to bring innovation to government. In explaining how to enhance political institutions with the power of networks, it offers a fundamental rethinking of democracy in the ...digital age. Collaborative democracy-government of the people, by the people, for the people-is an old dream. Today, Wiki Government shows how technology can make that dream a reality. In this thought-provoking book, Beth Simone Noveck illustrates how collaborative democracy strengthens public decisionmaking by connecting the power of the many to the work of the few. Equally important, she provides a step-by-step demonstration of how collaborative democracy can be designed, opening policymaking to greater participation. "Wiki Government" tells the story behind one of the most dramatic public sector innovations in recent years - inviting the public to participate in the patent examination process. Patent examiners usually work in secret, cut off from essential information and racing against the clock to master arcane technical claims. The Peer-to-Patent project radically transformed this process by allowing anyone with Internet access to collaborate with the agency in reviewing patent applications. "Wiki Government" describes how a far-flung team of technologists, lawyers, and policymakers pried open a tradition-bound agency's doors. Noveck explains how she brought both fiercely competitive companies and risk-averse bureaucrats on board. She discusses the design challenges the team faced in creating software to distill online collaboration into useful expertise, not just rants or raves. And she explains how law, policy, and technology can be revamped to help government work in more open and participatory ways in a wide range of policy arenas, including education and the environment.
Building on the concept of depoliticization, this book provides a first systematic analysis of International Organizations (IO) apolitical claims. It shows that depoliticization sustains IO everyday ...activities while allowing them to remain engaged in politics, even when they pretend not to. Delving into the inner dynamics of global governance, this book develops an analytical framework on why IOs "hate" politics by bringing together practices and logics of depoliticization in a wide variety of historical, geographic and organizational contexts. With multiple case studies in the fields of labor rights and economic regulation, environmental protection, development and humanitarian aid, peacekeeping, among others this book shows that depoliticization is enacted in a series of overlapping, sometimes mundane, practices resulting from the complex interaction between professional habits, organizational cultures and individual tactics. By approaching the consequences of these practices in terms of logics, the book addresses the instrumental dimension of depoliticization without assuming that IO actors necessarily intend to depoliticize their action or global problems. For IO scholars and students, this book sheds new light on IO politics by clarifying one often taken-for-granted dimension of their everyday activities, precisely that of depoliticization. It will also be of interest to other researchers working in the fields of political science, international relations, international political sociology, international political economy, international public administration, history, law, sociology, anthropology and geography as well as IO practitioners.
This book asks an important question often ignored by ancient historians and political scientists alike: Why did Athenian democracy work as well and for as long as it did? Josiah Ober seeks the ...answer by analyzing the sociology of Athenian politics and the nature of communication between elite and nonelite citizens. After a preliminary survey of the development of the Athenian "constitution," he focuses on the role of political and legal rhetoric. As jurymen and Assemblymen, the citizen masses of Athens retained important powers, and elite Athenian politicians and litigants needed to address these large bodies of ordinary citizens in terms understandable and acceptable to the audience. This book probes the social strategies behind the rhetorical tactics employed by elite speakers.
A close reading of the speeches exposes both egalitarian and elitist elements in Athenian popular ideology. Ober demonstrates that the vocabulary of public speech constituted a democratic discourse that allowed the Athenians to resolve contradictions between the ideal of political equality and the reality of social inequality. His radical reevaluation of leadership and political power in classical Athens restores key elements of the social and ideological context of the first western democracy.
Özet
Edinilmiş mallara katılma rejiminin 01.01.2002 tarihinden itibaren yürürlüğe girmesiyle birlikte mal rejimi konusunda önemli gelişmeler olmuştur. Edinilmiş mallara katılma rejimi, kadın-erkek ...eşitliği noktasında önemli fayda ve kazanımlar sağlamış olsa da uygulamada bazı zorluklar yaşanmaktadır. Bu makaleyi hazırlamadaki amacımız “Katılma Alacağı” konusunu doktrindeki görüş ayrılıkları ve Yargıtay kararları doğrultusunda incelemektir. Özellikle bazı konularda farklı görüşlerin olması uygulamada bir takım sorunları da beraberinde getirmektedir.
Amaç: Çalışmada, kanundaki değişiklik sonucu yasal mal rejimi olarak kabul edilmesiyle birlikte önemli noktaya gelen katılma alacağı konusunun incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır.
Yöntem: Çalışma hazırlanırken, edinilmiş mallara katılma rejimi hakkında genel bilgilendirme yapılmıştır. Katılma alacağı konusu ise ayrıntılı bir şekilde incelenmiştir. Ayrıca katılma alacağı konusunda tartışmalı noktalara yer verilerek hukuki niteliği incelenmiştir.
Bulgular: Katılma alacağının özellikle zamanaşımı konusunda bir çok görüş farklılığı bulunmaktadır. Ayrıca hesaplanma yönünde de bazı tartışmalı noktalar bulunmaktadır. Gerek doktrindeki gerekse Yargıtay’da bu sorunların önüne geçmek adına kanuni düzenlenmenin yapılması gerekmektedir.
Özgünlük: Katılma alacağı, konusunda bilgi sahibi olmak isteyenler için özgün bir makaledir.
Abstract
With the entry into force of the regime of participation in acquired goods from 01.01.2002, there have been significant developments in the goods regime. Even though the regime of participating to acquired property has made significant benefits and gains in gender equality, it also has some difficulties in practice. The objective of presenting this paper is to analyze "Participation Asset" in accordance with the differences of opinion in doctrine and the decisions of the Supreme Court. Especially, different arguments on certain topics bring several problems in practice.
Aim: This study, aimed to examine the issue of participation receivables, which came to an important point as a result of the change in the law, was adopted as a legal goods regime.
Methodology: During the preparation of the study, a detailed explanation was given on the issues of the regime of participating to acquired property and the participation asset. The legal characteristics were scrutinized in consideration of the controversial topics on the participation asset.
Findings: There are many differences of opinion regarding the statute of limitations of the participation fee. Furthermore, certain controversial topics on the calculation of the participation asset were also identified. Legal regulations should be made to prevent these problems both in the doctrine and the Supreme Court.
Authenticity: It is an authentic article for those who want to have information about how to participate.
Democracy Here and Now presents a detailed account of
the 15M Movement in Spain - one of the important participatory
democracies of the early twenty-first century.
Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without Democracy, Garry Rodan breaks ...new conceptual ground in examining the social forces that underpin the emergence of these innovations in Southeast Asia. Rodan explains that there is, however, a central paradox in this recalibration of politics: expanded political participation is serving to constrain contestation more than to enhance it.
Participation without Democracyuses Rodan's long-term fieldwork in Singapore, the Philippines, and Malaysia to develop a modes of participation (MOP) framework that has general application across different regime types among both early-developing and late-developing capitalist societies. His MOP framework is a sophisticated, original, and universally relevant way of analyzing this phenomenon. Rodan uses MOP and his case studies to highlight important differences among social and political forces over the roles and forms of collective organization in political representation. In addition, he identifies and distinguishes hitherto neglected non-democratic ideologies of representation and their influence within both democratic and authoritarian regimes.Participation without Democracysuggests that to address the new politics that both provokes these institutional experiments and is affected by them we need to know who can participate, how, and on what issues, and we need to take the non-democratic institutions and ideologies as seriously as the democratic ones.
In this far-reaching work, Swen Hutter demonstrates the usefulness of studying both electoral politics and protest politics to better understand the impacts of globalization. Hutter integrates ...research on cleavage politics and populist parties in Western Europe with research on social movements. He shows how major new cleavages restructured protest politics over a thirty-year period, from the 1970s through the 1990s. This major study brings back the concept of cleavages to social movement studies and connects the field with contemporary research on populism, electoral behavior, and party politics.
Hutter's work extends the landmark 1995New Social Movements in Western Europe, the book that spurred the recognition that a broad empirical frame is valuable for understanding powerful social movements. This new book shows that it is also beneficial to include the study of political parties and protest politics. While making extensive use of public opinion, protest event, and election campaigning data, Hutter skillfully employs contemporary data from six West European societies-Austria, Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland-to account for responses to protest events and political issues across countries.
Protesting Culture and Economics in Western Europemakes productive empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions to the study of social movements and comparative politics. Empirically, it employs a new approach, along with new data, to explain changes in European politics over several decades. Methodologically, it makes rigorous yet creative use of diverse datasets in innovative ways, particularly across national borders. And theoretically, it makes a strong claim for considering the distinctive politics of protest across various issue domains as it investigates the asymmetrical politics of protest from left and right.
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