Towards a democracy-centred ethics

Abstract

The core idea of this paper is that we can use the differences between democratic and undemocratic governments to illuminate ethical problems. Democratic values, rights and institutions lie between the most abstract considerations of ethics and meta-ethics and the most particularised decisions, outcomes and contexts. Hence, this paper argues, we can use the differences between democratic and undemocratic governments, as we best understand them, to structure our theoretical investigations, to test and organise our intuitions and ideas, and to explain and justify our philosophical conclusions. Specifically, as we will see, a democracy-centred approach to ethics can help us to distinguish liberal and democratic approaches to political morality in ways that reflect the varieties of democratic theory, and the importance of distinguishing democratic from undemocratic forms of liberalism.     

The Macquarie Laws of War Corpus (MQLWC): Design,Construction and Use

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique - This paper discusses the creation and use of the new Macquarie Laws of War Corpus (MQLWC). The...     

Small media for a big revolution: Iran

Conclusion The Iranian revolutionary experience reveals not only the social power of tradition, but also the flexible and creative adaptations that a traditionalist movement can make in the face of adversity to protect its core. Khomeini felt no contradiction utilizing the international telephone circuitry, arriving home on a jumbo jet, or talking to his followers through television. All too often tradition is perceived as something static, unflexible and brittle; as something totally opposed to modernity. The Iranian popular mobilization, and indeed ten years of cultural politics inside the Islamic Republic of Iran, has provided a profound challenge to that interpretation.     

Media,Muslims, and the Middle East: A Critical Review Essay

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Humanitarian Inter vention in Somalia, 1992–1994: Elite N ewspaper Coverage, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy

A Dissertation Completed at the College of Journalism, University of Maryland at College Park, 1995, Brian P. Hoey, Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama

Framing the Health Care Reform Campaign of 1993-94: News Frame, Interpretation, and Public Opinion Change

A Dissertation Completed at The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 1997, June Woong Rhee, Research Fellow, Korean Broadcasting System

Accuracy and Distortion in Judgment and Recall of Political Discourse

A Dissertation Completed at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 1996, Darin W. Klein, Georgia State University

Deliberative Democracy and the Public Sphere: On the Interactions of News Media, Interpersonal Communication, Opinion Formation, and Participation

A Dissertation Completed at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 1997, Joohoan Kim, Boston College     

Migrant workers and migrant entrepreneurs: changing established/outsider relations across society and space?

Drawing on Elias and Scotson's theory of established/outsider relations, in this paper we argue that migrants can be outsiders in one spatial context and established in another simultaneously. Our empirical focus is the situations and experiences of migrant workers from Central and Eastern Europe in four towns across Wales. While their position as outsiders is reinforced in the occupational spaces of meat-processing factories, outside the workplace a small but growing number of migrants are engaging in entrepreneurial activities that create new spaces of cultural diversity. We argue that this is having a wider affective impact on established/outsider relations.     

Diasporan students social entrepreneurship intention: The moderating role of institutional support

The daunting global challenges saddling polities and governments alike have resultantly created a situation whereby governments and corporate civil society have inadvertently reneged on delivering public good and services to citizens. In ensuring and strengthening a public–private actor synergy, with particular emphasis on leveraging acquired knowledge and skills of diaspora‐based students, social entrepreneurship activities could be harnessed to provide sustainable remedies to social challenges such as unemployment, famine amongst others by utilizing social entrepreneurship as a tool. Using the theory of planned behaviour as a theoretical framework, the study elicited data from 322 respondents to empirically investigate determinants of social entrepreneurship intentions of Ghanaian students, with the moderating role of institutional support. Study results revealed that sense of social responsibility and service learning have significant relationship with social entrepreneurship intention. However, social volunteering experience had no significant relationship. Moreover, whereas attitude to social entrepreneurship intention demonstrated a positive relationship, institutional support as a moderator was also revealed to influence the relationship between attitude and social entrepreneurship intention. From the study findings, we discourse on the implications for social entrepreneurship in Ghana to policy makers and stakeholders.