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Part of a symposium on using film as a political science instructional tool suggests that if students learn to "read" film, they'll overcome the media framing & priming that encapsulate political information & socialize the citizenry. Framing & priming & their influence on gender & race representations are discussed. References. J. Zendejas

Political-discourse interactions between government officials and citizen are increasingly becoming common discourse events in Nigeria. There is seemingly nothing unfamiliar about political discourse events, but what needs clarification is the extent to which political discourse interactions foster and or enhance sustainable peace. This study, however, investigated the political-discourse events of 'The Ministerial Platforms' and 'National Good Governance Tours' of Nigeria to determine how they enhance sustainable peace. Djik's Action theory and Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics served as theoretical frameworks. Analysis revealed that increased political-Discourse interactions between government officials and the citizenry shortened the gap between the governed and those who govern, thus bridging disharmony, disillusionment, apathy, agitations and grievances through information eliciting strategy realised through probing by questioning, Emotive embedded strategy through entreaties by pleas, Campaign strategy through agitations by direct demands and Affirmative Strategy through applauses and commendations, as what the citizenry used.

This paper`s aim is to argue that citizenship could be been approached in the dialectical lens produced by creative antagonism between nation in one hand and state in other hand. This tension, if interrogated in postcolonial nuances, become the fertile habitus for Indonesian citizenry as creative and multilayered cross and inter-identity configuration, by which Indonesian exercise its rights and critical distance from both Indonesia as state (in terms of panoptical bureaucratic and enduring regime of political reservation) and Indonesia as nation (in terms of myopic utopia spoken in language of impossibility as the main horizon bounding and creating togetherness of so called Indonesia) day by day. This rich notion of creative antagonism has embodiment in what been called as the surplus of aesthetic imagination explored by but not limited to Nirwan Ahmad Arsuka and DandhyLaksono (read as 2 temporary example of active citizenry of Indonesian) as exercise toward new horizon of what is possible to be Indonesian.

Unfortunately, modern liberals have long misrepresented and misused the foundational principles of liberalism, in order to claim that the fundamental function of every democratic state is the pursuit of its citizens' liberty, as well as to viciously attack all states and leaders that do not consider liberty to be sacrosanct. Via an appeal to the essential works of liberalism and realism, this paper has thoroughly contradicted the claims of modern liberalism and has definitively argued that security, not liberty, is the fundamental purpose of every state. Furthermore, this paper has comprehensively analyzed the USA, in order to demonstrate that, if a state sacrifices the liberty of its citizenry in order to maintain its national security, then the state's actions are not merely just and ethical vis-à-vis its citizenry, but, rather, fulfill the state's fundamental, protective, function and are, in fact, an inevitable, benevolent, aspect of the state's existence.

The production of a tourist space on the Bahía de Banderas, on Mexico's Pacific coast, has required converting the land, the river, and the bay into private property, dispossessing the citizenry of its access to them and interfering with the right of free transit. The production of this unequal and exclusive space demonstrates the absence of democracy in spatial production and the defenselessness of the citizenry in the face of the neoliberal project. La producción del espacio turístico de Bahía de Banderas, en la costa del Pacífico mexicano, require convertir en propiedad privada el suelo, el río y las playas, lo cual implicó despojar a la ciudadanía de su acceso al río, al mar y al derecho del libre tránsito. Tal producción de un espacio desigual y de exclusión social evidencia el alto déficit de democracia en la producción espacial, así como la indefensión de la ciudadanía que conlleva el neoliberalismo.

Meera Ashar focuses on the relationship between the terms of political theorization and the concepts that they might embody. Contemporary Indian political language is understood alternately as an indigenous discourse rendered in another language, as a literal translation or direct implantation of the Western political discourse, or as a derivative discourse. The Indian nation-state, democracy and citizenry, which the nationalists recognized as merely formally-installed entities became, for later political theorists, the 'facts' of Indian politics. The nationalist movement attempted to transform the existing 'peasant consciousness' into 'rationalist forms of an 'enlightened' nationalist politics. The Indian nation-state, democracy and citizenry, which the nationalists recognized as merely formally-installed entities became, for later political theorists, the 'facts' of Indian politics. One reason for the failure of democratic politics in India is that decades after a democratic nation-state was formally constituted, the hopes of the nation-builders have not been fulfilled.

Meera Ashar focuses on the relationship between the terms of political theorization and the concepts that they might embody. Contemporary Indian political language is understood alternately as an indigenous discourse rendered in another language, as a literal translation or direct implantation of the Western political discourse, or as a derivative discourse. The Indian nation-state, democracy and citizenry, which the nationalists recognized as merely formally-installed entities became, for later political theorists, the 'facts' of Indian politics. The nationalist movement attempted to transform the existing 'peasant consciousness' into 'rationalist forms of an 'enlightened' nationalist politics. The Indian nation-state, democracy and citizenry, which the nationalists recognized as merely formally-installed entities became, for later political theorists, the 'facts' of Indian politics. One reason for the failure of democratic politics in India is that decades after a democratic nation-state was formally constituted, the hopes of the nation-builders have not been fulfilled.

Investigations into the potential for public sector software (PSS) to empower citizens are at a very nascent stage. This article explores the theoretical basis for, and practical advantages of, PSS, in the making of an informed and pro-active citizenry. Using the example of the emerging PSS movement in India and in particular the ICT literacy movement in Kerala, South India, it argues, that access to and use of software based on the principles of free and open source has the potential to contribute to an empowered citizenry. However the very concept of PSS is contested by major private software companies given that they stand to lose from public investments that are based on open standards. The article argues that PSS can contribute to the making of an 'information commons' and that the need of the hour is for innovative and creative solutions to the information deficits faced by communities in India and elsewhere.

The importance of immigrants to the demographic and economic survival ofmedieval cities calls for an exploration of how they established themselves in their adopted homes. This study uses network analysis to investigate the social and economic relationships of immigrants who joined the citizenry of Saint-Omer between 1413/14 and 1455/56. Reconstructing the social and economic networks of these new citizens, this study demonstrates that many immigrants did not venture to their new home alone. They either brought with them, or found already established, networks of family and acquaintances that enhanced the likelihood of a successful relocation. These networks could be complex. Immigrants who succeeded in joining Saint-Omer's bourgeoisie tended to be better supplied with resources, social and economic, than other "outsiders" joining the citizenry. Networks of women immigrants differed somewhat from those of their male counterparts, but social networks were part of women's successful establishment in their adopted city also.

This article carries out a philosophical & political analysis about the dissociation between the concept of citizenry & media communication in order to understand the political status of the freedom of speech. The article argues that communication is no longer a political act &, consequently, it does not maintain the inherent performance characteristic, which entails the polemics, the visibility, the accessibility, the possibility to ask, answer, & discuss. In this way, the author highlights that whereas constitutions link the definition of citizenry to associative & discursive character, the new mass media allows its disarticulation from the anthropological implication needed in the act of communication. This is attributed to fact that the public meeting is no longer a human need to carry out an interchange of ideas, form, & reform opinions because media are invading this space. As a consequence, we find a contradiction between the democratic system & the practices of communication without public participation. Adapted from the source document.

If campaigns are times for political representatives to consult or negotiate with a citizenry, then the ways that a public conversation is conducted matters. In this study, all campaign stories in two national newspapers over the last 2 weeks of Campaign 2000 were sorted by dominant issues and examined for public commentary on those issues. About 60% of the stories featured discussion of candidate images (within narratives of campaigning depicted as races, military campaigns, or dramatic performances), with the remaining stories featuring 1 of 18 other issues. Issues as such all but disappeared. The candidate image stories were dominated by statistical representations of binary—yes-no, good-bad—opinions. The study concludes that the public had no real voice in the electoral conversation at the end of Campaign 2000, only serving to indicate who was ahead or behind. A citizenry can have little effect on political agenda if depicted only as a numerical mass.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Organizing the World as the Liberal Hegemon -- Chapter 3: Why the Liberal Hegemon is Necessary -- Chapter 4: The Political Culture of the Liberal Hegemon -- Chapter 5: Pitfalls and Lessons facing America's Hegemonic Policy -- Chapter 6: What are the Rewards of Citizenry In the Liberal Hegemon? .

This book examines American political sex scandals at the national level. Studying these events over time reveals the republic's deteriorating moral health. The book shows how having freedom from virtue has produced an American citizenry increasingly prone to the kind of dependence and enslavement once described by Alexis de Tocqueville.