关于网络政治参与概念的厘定

在全球化、网络化和民主化的时代背景下,随着互联网的迅速普及和应用及人们政治参与需求的不断增长,网络政治参与日益成为一种新兴的政治参与方式。深刻认识网络政治参与首先应准确把握其概念,网络政治参与是对传统政治参与的新发展,是不同参与动机的普通公民以网络为平台通过发挥网络的诸多特性试图影响各种类型和层级的政治组织构成、运行及决策的行为。     

Latin America as a White Settler Society

Latin America’s nineteenth century history of Europeanisation, immigration and extermination suggests that the continent should fit neatly into the category of ‘settler colonialism’, a notion usually employed to describe the white settler colonies of European empires other than those of Spain and Portugal. While the last years of empire and the early days of the republics saw efforts to include the indigenous population as citizens, the racist white elites in the century after independence sought to import European migrants to prevent the non‐white population from participating in power. The desired ‘whitening’ of the population was rarely successful, but the weight of white immigration helped create a twentieth century society that ignored the indigenous peoples – until the popular explosions of recent years.