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The chapter explores the dialectical nature of domestic politics & foreign policy in Pakistan in terms of the colonial legacy, the divorce of public input from policy making, & regional instability. While it is not suggested that public opinion has no influence on Pakistani foreign policy (especially given the wide popular support for the state's nuclear, Kashmir, & pro-Islamist positions), smaller-level ethno-spatial & temporal elements problematize the assumption of popular unanimity. Moreover, Pakistan's foreign policy objectives & priorities have proven themselves susceptible to political change, the dynamics of which are delineated in this paper. K. Coddon

Chapter 1. Does the Constitutional-pluralist regime have a future? -- Chapter 2. A commitment to the principles of judicial ethics against the danger of judicial politicization to the democracies in the European Union -- Chapter 3. Democracy of People: Beyond the Citizen and the Individual -- Chapter 4. On Contemporary Democratism: The Twilight of Political Virtue and Its Paradoxes -- Chapter 5. Democratic representation and the nature of political parties -- Chapter 6. Democracy, Representation and Critical Aesthetics -- Chapter 7. Communism or freedom: right-wing populist discourse and the false disjunctives -- Chapter 8. Meritocracy: The Keyword of Market Populism -- Chapter 9. Controlling the Desire for Control. Machines, Institutions and Democracy -- Chapter 10. Random Recruitment, Civil Society, and the State -- Chapter 11. Visions and Forms of Democratic Participation in Italian Universities after 1968 -- Chapter 12. The Ethics and Politics of Design for the Common Good: A Lesson from Alibaug -- Chapter 13. Democratic practice in the era of platforms: From clicktivism to open-source intelligence -- Chapter 14. A Media Citizenry and Communication Policies: The Challenges of Information Democracy.

This book chapter is in closed access until 18 months after publication. ; This paper brings anarchist perspectives to bear on the Charles Mills' and Carole Pateman's critical review of Rawlsian contract theory to explore the possibility of re-appropriating 'master's tools' to advance radical change. It uses a concept of prefiguration to consider how activists operate within the framework of the state to promote libertarian politics and it recovers an anarchist conception of free agreement to explore the theoretical grounding of this activism. The argument is that the state is re-imagined through the active contestation of the powers states reserve to determine the rightness of actions and the underpinning principles of justice. The argument has three parts. The first discusses Charles Mills' analysis Rousseau's contract theory to redress structural domination as an exemplary model of contemporary theoretical reimaging. The second part of the paper develops a critique of Mills' position, drawing on the work of Carole Pateman and Martin Buber. The final section discusses the reclamation of the state's powers through direct action.

"The corporate downtown, with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions, is the focus of this well-illustrated volume. How are downtown projects conceived, scripted, produced, packaged, and used, and how has all this changed during the twentieth century? The authors of Urban Design Downtown explore the poetics of design and the politics and economics of development decisions, offering a critical appraisal of the emerging appearance and design of downtown urban form."--Jacket

The development of Digital Government Services (DGS) is a form of bureaucratic transfor-mation. This research focuses on virtual digital technology used in the government, especially in the tourism office department of Yogyakarta special administrative region which is also known as Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (DIY) Province. Based on Ministry of Communication and Information (MoCI) 2012 report, e-Government adoption in DIY was ranked 4th in the country. The province has the vision of becoming a cyber province as one of the ways to fulfil the needs of its residents. The objectives of this study encompass: 1) description of the imple-mentation of e-government in DIY Tourism department; 2) mapping and utilizing the tourism communication strategies to identify e-government implementation in the Tourism department; and 3) assess the role that e-government technology adoption can help to strengthen service encouraging the enhancement of service and creative industries towards contributing to im-prove the higher tourism development in DIY. The research used a case study approach with data collected using informal interview and documentation. Results of the research showed that: 1) the expertise in information and communication technology (ICT) is pivotal for was necessary for the development of ing the tourism-based websites and e-government applica-tions; 2) the importance of developing multimedia-based content to ensure relevant and updat-ed content; and 3) the importance of taking into account the needs and interests of undergradu-ates and undergraduate audience in developing and adoption of e-government services because they constitute the largest segment that uses the virtual digital government services.

Public engagement is an umbrella term that encompasses numerous methods for bringing people together to address issues of public importance. In this article, we focus on direct public engagement in local government, exploring what we know and proposing areas where more research is needed. We first define direct public engagement and distinguish it from related concepts and terms. We then introduce a simple framework for exploring variations in direct public engagement at the local level. Next, we use this framework to examine the extant literature on why, how, and to what effect direct public engagement in local government is used. Finally, we identify gaps in the literature and propose a research agenda for the future.

In "towards a theory of the periodical genre," Margaret Beetham observes that "the material characteristics of the periodical . have consistently been central to its meaning" (22–23). In particular, Beetham emphasizes, "the elation of blocks of text to visual material is a crucial part of " the periodical's processes of signification and the reader's experience of making meaning out of its time-stamped yet open-ended issues (24). While this theoretical position underlies much excellent critical work in periodical studies, it is less evident in the electronic repositories on which research in the field increasingly relies. In this paper, I examine what it might mean to inform our digitization practices with a theory of the periodical hypertext as a remediated object. Focusing on the specific editorial problem of periodical pages decorated with textual ornaments, I take as my case study The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal (1895 to 1897), a Scottish magazine scheduled for markup and publication on The Yellow Nineties Online. Making remediated Celtic ornament a structural feature of its aesthetic design and an integral expression of its larger political agenda, the Evergreen reminds us of what is at stake if our own electronic remediation practices are not adequate to the periodical objects we study. ; "The Politics of Ornament: Remediation and/in The Evergreen" was first published in ESC: English Studies in Canada in the special issue on Magazines and/as Media: The Politics and Aesthetics of Periodical Form, vol 41, no. 1 (2015): 1-24.

While physicists have advanced theories that directly challenged unidimensional theories of history, the social sciences have held on to older, linear conceptions of historical time, but all this should change. Politics entails the making and remaking of the past, the making and remaking of the future, the inheritance of imagined futures, the recognition of the cyclic and the repetitive, reversals of linear causality, and other strategies and effects at odds with dominant historical conventions. If we are to study politics then we must attend to the broader, less disciplined, relation of politics to history, which is the purpose of the current article.

"This book reflects on 'the political' in queer theory and politics by revisiting two of its key categories: hegemony and heteronormativity. It explores the specific insights offered by these categories and the ways in which they augment the analysis of power and domination from a queer perspective, whilst also examining the possibilities for political analysis and strategy-building provided by theories of hegemony and heteronormativity. Moreover, in addressing these issues the book strives to rethink the understanding of the term 'queer', so as to avoid narrowing queer politics to a critique of normative heterosexuality and the rigid gender binary. By looking at the interplay between hegemony and heteronormativity, this ground-breaking volume presents new possibilities of reconceptualizing 'the political' from a queer perspective. Investigating the effects of queer politics not only on subjectivities and intimate personal relations, but also on institutions, socio-cultural processes and global politics, this book will be of interest to those working in the fields of critical theory, gender and sexuality, queer theory, postcolonial studies, and feminist political theory."--Provided by publisher.