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'Governance Reform Under Real-World Conditions: Citizens, Stakeholders, and...
The number of governance reform processes in which communication plays a role appears to be vast. Which of these are of vital importance? How exactly can communication help? And what does research...
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In the End, It’s About What People Want
The potential that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have to contribute to economic growth in developing countries is undeniable. In terms of what ICT in general and e-government in...
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Paying Zero for Public Services
Imagine that you are an old lady from a poor household in a town in the outskirts of Chennai city, India. All you have wanted desperately for the last year and a half is to get a title in your name for...
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Beyond The Reign of Reason?
In liberal political and constitutional thought, the passions are feared and often decried. The constant appeal is to reason: rational thought, rational debate, and rational solutions to problems. Even...
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Jeremy Bentham and Dictators Around the World
A desperate, totally fed up young graduate sets himself on fire in a small, provincial town in his country and within weeks eddies of violent protests by citizens all over the country bring down an...
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Citizens and the State: Working Across the Demand and Supply Dichotomy
Citizens are assigned various roles in the development process (service users, project beneficiaries, and consulted stakeholders). But how can citizens move from being just users and choosers of social...
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Global Financial Markets: A Tale of Two Moral Publics
On May 2 this year, Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, the gigantic Wall Street bank, was interviewed on CNN by Fareed Zakaria (his show is Global Public Square). Towards the end of the...
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Weekly wire: The global forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.What Future For Emerging Markets? Foreign Policy Long before the current market debacle, I was...
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