Friedel Marquardt avers the following:
"[The] naming and recording of various definitions of democracy gives place to those definitions that may not have been considered or acknowledged before, often eclipsed by more prominent definitions like liberal democracy. Identifying a manifestation as 'democracy' and applying the term to it has the effect of recognising a wide range of practices as democratic. It gives them legitimacy among the other more prominent democracies identified." (For more, please read Marquardt's essay here: https://theloop.ecpr.eu/who-gets-a-say-in-the-meanings-of-democracy/)
Which practices around you, perhaps ones you conduct yourself, are not formally part of the "canon of democracy" but should be?
Student democracy, democratic decision-making undertaken by students in education institutions, is in my experience often overlooked in political science. There is much that applying a political science lens to student government research can do to help develop ways to improve student democracy, and there is likewise much that student democracy can teach us about politics and democracy more broadly.
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Engineering
- Petroleum Engineering
- Oil