Browsing by Subject "Democratization"

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    For The World’s Sake: U.S. Foundations and International Grantmaking, 1990-2002
    (Brookings Institution Press, 2010) Benjamin, Lehn M.; Quigley, Kevin F.
    The last decade of the twentieth century and the first few years of this new century have been marked by significant global changes. The move to more open societies marked symbolically by the fall of the Berlin Wall and animated by widespread democratization movements presented foundations with new grant-making prospects. These openings, coupled with governance models that shifted greater responsibility for development to the private sector, spurred foundations to support a variety of institution-building efforts, including supporting civil society in countries around the world. Rapid technological advances made international giving easier; at the same time, this more open and connected world drew foundation attention to new global problems, including environmental degradation and health pandemics.
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    Human rights challenges of IT-led democratization
    (2013-08-13) Caparas, Perfecto "Boyet"
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    The Withered Root of Socialism: Social Democratic Revisionism and Parlamentarismus in Germany, 1917-1919
    (2010) York, Owen Walter; Cramer, Kevin; Kostroun, Daniella J., 1970-; Hoyt, Giles Reid
    This thesis examines a group of German intellectuals and politicians who, during World War I, formulated and proposed a democratic ideology based on their interpretation of the German Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant and integrated his ideas with those of Karl Marx, the father of modern socialism. Their theory was an attempt to legitimize democracy in Germany at a time when democratic reforms came to the forefront of German politics. These thinkers advocated a non-revolutionary foundation for social democracy by emphasizing the role of human reason and agency in the process of democratization. Because they had abandoned the need for revolution, which most early nineteenth-century socialists believed was socialism’s ‘final goal,’ these thinkers were known as revisionists. The revisionists’ primary medium through which they espoused their views of social democracy was the journal Sozialistische Monatshefte, which ran from 1893 until 1933. The timeframe on which this argument focuses is the last two years of World War I, when Germany’s failure achieve a victor’s peace opened new avenues for the center-left of the political spectrum to achieve democratic reform. The revisionists sought to carry forward the process of democratization, and by doing so, reconnected with the ideas of the Enlightenment.