Listing 1 - 4 of 4 |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
This volume offers a model of democratic legitimacy for the European Union.
Democracy. --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics
Choose an application
Centripetal democracy is the idea that legitimate democratic institutions set in motion forms of citizen practice and representative behaviour that serve as powerful drivers of political identity formation. Partisan modes of political representation in the context of multifaceted electoral and direct democratic voting opportunities are emphasised on this model. There is, however, a strain of thought predominant in political theory that doubts the democratic capacities of political systems constituted by multiple public spheres. This view is referred to as the lingua franca thesis on sustainable democratic systems (LFT). Inadequate democratic institutions and acute demands to divide the political system (through devolution or secession), are predicted by this thesis. By combining an original normative democratic theory with a comparative analysis of how Belgium and Switzerland have variously managed to sustain themselves as multilingual democracies, this book identifies the main institutional features of a democratically legitimate European Union and the conditions required to bring it about. Part One presents a novel theory of democratic legitimacy and political identity formation on which subsequent analyses are based. Part Two defines the EU as a demoi-cracy and provides a thorough democratic assessment of this political system. Part Three explains why Belgium has largely succumbed to the centrifugal logic predicted by the LFT, while Switzerland apparently defies this logic. Part Four presents a model of centripetal democracy for the EU, one that would greatly reduce its democratic deficit and ensure that this political system does not succumb to the centrifugal forces expected by the LFT.
Political systems --- European Union --- Belgium --- Switzerland
Choose an application
In 1922, Raymond Buyse, a young Belgian 'pedologist', undertook, together with the famous Dr. Ovide Decroly, a study tour of the United States of America. Both were interested in the 'scientific' study of the child and especially in applied American psychology. They met well-known American professors and visited universities that were developing these aspects of educational psychology. Back in Belgium, they dedicated several books and articles to the issues discussed during the trip. Less known is that Raymond Buyse noted his impressions and reflections of the trip in a diary. Buyse writes in a lively style about his encounters with the 'great' psychologists and pedagogues of that time and in doing so this diary adds a new dimension to the study of the history of educational psychology in Belgium and far beyond.
French literature (outside France) --- United States --- Educational psychologists --- Child psychologists --- Educational psychology --- Child psychology --- Developmental psychology --- History --- Buyse, Raymond, --- Decroly, Ovide, --- Travel --- Academic collection --- 37 <09> <493> --- 37 <73> --- Geschiedenis van opvoeding en onderwijs--België --- Opvoeding en onderwijs --(algemeen)--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 37 <73> Opvoeding en onderwijs --(algemeen)--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 37 <09> <493> Geschiedenis van opvoeding en onderwijs--België --- Buyse, Raymond --- 20th century --- Educational psychologists - Belgium - Diaries --- Child psychologists - Belgium - Diaries --- Educational psychology - History - 20th century - Sources --- Child psychology - History - 20th century - Sources --- Developmental psychology - History - 20th century - Sources --- Buyse, Raymond, - 1889-1975 - Travel - United States --- Buyse, Raymond, - 1889-1975 - Diaries --- Decroly, Ovide, - 1871-1932 - Travel - United States --- United States of America --- Buyse, Raymond, - 1889-1975 --- Decroly, Ovide, - 1871-1932 --- Voyage d'études aux U.S.A.
Choose an application
Listing 1 - 4 of 4 |
Sort by
|