Democracy Promotion at a Local Level : Experiences, Perspectives and Policy of Swiss International Cooperation

Dahinden, Martin

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“…The democratic process at the local level enables local people to participate more actively in the political process, this process encourages political institutions at the regional level to become more democratic institutions (Mariana & Husin, 2017). Democracy also has a strong connection with decentralization activities, where at the local scale it involves several political issues, such as fiscal and political decentralization, improving the quality of public services, control of government institutions at the regional level, local resources, and poverty alleviation (Dahinden, 2013). Because the people are the holders of the highest sovereignty, they have the freedom to influence the policies that are being formulated or implemented by the government.…”

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RETRACTED: Democracy and local political participation in Sumedang, Indonesia

Djuyandi

Darmawan

Jumroh

2021

Journal of Public Affairs

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Indonesia is a country that implements a democratic political system. As such, the involvement of society in the political process becomes very important. The purpose of this article is to research the democracy and local political participation in Sumedang. The study uses qualitative methods with primary data obtained from field observations and direct interviews of several informants. Additionally, the researchers use secondary data as a complement to the analysis. The results of this study indicate that the community at the local level truly understands the importance of political participation. However, due to disappointment in government performance, a part of the community has become discouraged from participating in the political process conducted by local governments. Several factors hinder efforts to encourage political participation. These include limited access to political aspirations that are still rare and the process of political education that is still low.

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RETRACTED: Democracy and local political participation in Sumedang, Indonesia

Djuyandi

Darmawan

Jumroh

2021

Journal of Public Affairs

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“…Comparative politics (Bara and Pennington, 2009;Lijphart, 1999;Lijphart and Schmidt, 1997) as well as foreign policy practice (Carothers, 2004;Dahinden, 2013;Lawson and Epstein, 2019;Schimmelfennig and Scholtz, 2008) usually conceptualize, measure, and engage with democracy in terms of the development of political systems. Thus, the focus lies mostly on characteristics like majority rule, division of power, protection of minorities, and institutionalised party competition.…”

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“…Democracy promotion (e.g. Carothers, 2004;Dahinden, 2013;Lawson and Epstein, 2019;Schimmelfennig and Scholtz, 2008) and civic education (Callan, 1997;National Council for the Social Studies, 2017;Ostrom, 1998) aims at stabilizing societies by establishing democracy in society not only in terms of political institutions. How to enable people to be democratic and mature citizens is then a recurrent task for civic and political education in particular.…”

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Learning by doing: The impact of experiencing democracy in education on political trust and participation

Kiess

2021

Politics

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This article investigates whether engagement in school or university, such as being the speaker of class, a member of a student council, and so on, has an impact on political participation and political trust. Following interactionist socialization theory, engagement during adolescence should develop ideas of citizenship, democracy, and political participation. Schools and universities are arguably key institutions as they can promote democratic decision making in the classroom. This strengthens democracy by increasing experienced political efficacy and through internalizing democratic principles (‘learning democracy’): by acting democratic, one becomes a democratic citizen. My findings show that respondents who experienced democracy in school or university indeed tend to vote and engage even in contentious forms of political participation more often. Also, the experience of democratic practices in school and university increases trust in political institutions. Moreover, trust in political institutions, in turn, increases the likelihood of voting, but not of engaging in other forms of participation. Thus, early democratic experiences seem to foster vivid and participatory democracy without streamlining people into passive participation. The article provides empirical evidence from nine European countries and an additional glance at young cohorts based on online panels.

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The Questionable Role of Experts in Global Governance

Kilanowski

2021

Democracy and Globalization

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Democracy Promotion at a Local Level : Experiences, Perspectives and Policy of Swiss International Cooperation

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RETRACTED: Democracy and local political participation in Sumedang, Indonesia

RETRACTED: Democracy and local political participation in Sumedang, Indonesia

Learning by doing: The impact of experiencing democracy in education on political trust and participation

The Questionable Role of Experts in Global Governance

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