91. The Life and Death of Democracy

Keane, John

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“…Now not only citizens are monitored by the state but also the state is monitored by citizens. John Keane (2009) calls this monitory democracy. And no less importantly, the relationship has become transnational.…”

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Toward Modelling a Global Social Contract: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke

Inoguchi¹,

Le²

2016

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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The paper attempts to construct a global model of a social contract using wellknown metaphors of two great philosophers: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke. By modelling a global social contract, I mean the formulation of a social contract using two sets of data: one is global citizens' preferences about values and norms while the other is sovereign states' participation in multilateral treaties. Both Rousseau and Locke formulate their versions of social contract theories in the national context of eighteenth-century Europe. This paper tries my hands on extending their theories to the global context. This paper attempts to link empirically the relationship between global citizens' preferences as gauged by the World Values Survey and sovereign states' participation in 120 multilateral treaties deposited to the United Nations. To see the link between citizens and treaties (quasi-legislative outcomes, sort of), dimensional similarities of the cosmos of citizens' preference and the cosmos of sovereign states' willingness to join multilateral treaties are examined. Once done, all the sovereign states are located in each of the two cosmoses, citizens and states, and the correlation coefficients between them are measured. Based on these empirical results, the nature of the global quasi-legislative process is clarified. Conclusions and implications are drawn.

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Section: Different Backgrounds Of the Rousseauesque And Lockian Metapmentioning

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“…Nevertheless, the world of globalization in the twenty-first century was not imagined by Locke or his disciples. As Keane (2009) has demonstrated eloquently in his magnum opus, democracy is not a monopoly of the West. Representative democracy in variant forms and names abound in history.…”

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Toward Modelling a Global Social Contract: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke

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2016

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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“…Rather, they can explore their agency as citizens through practices of 'monitory democracy' (cfr. Feenstra et al 2017, Keane 2009 in which many forms of extra--parliamentary and power--scrutinizing mechanisms play an increasingly pivotal role, also due to the grow--ing employment of ICTs that augment the opportunity for appropriating otherwise se--cret information, as in the case of WikiLeaks (Feenstra and Casero--Ripollés 2014).…”

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“…The A second feature to be considered further is that the way in which activists en--gaged in the creation of data is also telling, especially with regard to the role that indi--vidual citizens might play in struggles against corruption, pointing to two different con--ceptions of political participation in the age of big data. In the case of 15MpaRato, ac--tivists asked citizens to show some agency with regard to the production of data relat--ed to corruption, hence evoking the idea of "monitory democracy" (Keane 2009) out--lined above, according to which citizens control their rulers from below. In contrast, in the case of Riparte il Futuro, the data were to some extent extracted from citizens, ei--ther manually in the case of politicians or automatically in the case of the online peti--tion signers.…”

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From data extraction to data leaking. Data-activism in Italian and Spanish anti-corruption campaigns

Mattoni¹

2017

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This article investigates how activists employ Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and engage with data--activism in grassroots struggles against corruption. Based on a comparative research design that triangulates three qualitative data sources -in--depth interviews, movements' doc--uments and participatory platforms -the article analyses two campaigns: Riparte il Futuro in Italy and 15MpaRato in Spain. In so doing, the article casts light on how activists engage with digital data, revealing how their employment is connected to and consistent with the type of organizational structure and com--munication strategy of the campaign. Moreover, the article evaluates how activists engage with three spe--cific digital data--related practices -digital data creation, data usage and data transformation. Finally, the article illustrates that grasping the features of digital data--related practices also reflects how activists per--ceive and enact distinct ideas of active citizenship and data transparency in their fight against corruption.

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“…Following Werner Heisenberg's definition of an expert as "someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in their subject and who manages to avoid them" (quoted in Keane, 2009), we can equate expert wisdom with the ability to navigate and makes sense of uncertainties (Stilgoe et al, 2006). Expertise, therefore, is an act-performative as well as epistemological.…”

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Scientific advice on the move: the UK mobile phone risk issue as a public experiment

Stilgoe

2016

Palgrave Commun

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The UK controversy over the health risks of mobile phones was at its peak around 1999-2000, at a time when policymakers were beginning to endorse moves towards greater openness in the practice of expert advice. One explanation for the subsequent calming of this controversy is that people's sense of the benefits outweighed the minor uncertainties. However, this fails to explain the politics of mobile phone technology and, by positioning expert advice as neutral, offers no lessons for future expert practice. In this article, I argue that the mobile phones case can more productively be seen as one of public experiment. Rather than seeking closure, experts opened up the issue, made explicit previously obscured uncertainties and invited new research questions. In doing so, they remobilised previously static constructions of both science and public concern. This analysis challenges the distinction between science-as-expertise and science-as-experiment, with important implications for advisory practices and structures. This article is published as part of a thematic collection dedicated to scientific advice to governments.

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91. The Life and Death of Democracy

Cited by 152 publications

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Toward Modelling a Global Social Contract: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke

Toward Modelling a Global Social Contract: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke

From data extraction to data leaking. Data-activism in Italian and Spanish anti-corruption campaigns

Scientific advice on the move: the UK mobile phone risk issue as a public experiment

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