“…After adjusting for differences in population size, age structure, longevity, population density, GDP per capita, health care expenditures, educational attainment, direct democracy index, stringency of implemented measures, and testing intensity for COVID-19, results from Cox Proportional Hazards regressions revealed that countries with more unequal income distribution carried a higher burden of COVID-19 infections and deaths in 2020. …”
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“…Relatedly, I address the question – how might recognitions of ontological interdependence and radical contingency support a flourishing democracy? Merleau-Ponty’s early political work concerned the issues of his day – Nazism, Marxism and the status of humanism – and did not engage extensively with these emerging onto-political concerns. …”
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“…Three further key elements are the subsidiarity principle, federalism and direct democracy, which would provide the possibility for European voters to participate actively in political decision making, to break political and interest group cartels, and to prevent unwanted shifting of responsibilities from EU member states to the European federal level.…”
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“…For instance, pathological beliefs can sustain psychiatric disorders, the belief that rhinoceros horn is an aphrodisiac may drive a species extinct, beliefs about gender or race may fuel discrimination, and belief in conspiracy theories can undermine democracy. Here, we present a unifying framework of how self-amplifying feedbacks shape the inertia of beliefs on levels ranging from neuronal networks to social systems. …”
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“…And what kind of theories of democracy are (tacitly) tied to specific uses of the term? …”
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“…METHODS: We draw on data from the World Health Organization Health Equity Status Report initiative and the Varieties of Democracy project to assess whether health is better and health inequalities are smaller in countries where female political representation is greater. …”
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“…Further investigation reveals that, as COVID-19 spreads, the sentiment for raising taxes decreases and that for reducing taxes increases, and this effect is mitigated by countries’ democracy. We further find that news sentiment in unofficial media and in countries with low social trust is more significantly affected by COVID-19. …”
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“…In theory, patients may be invited to participate for reasons of democracy, empowerment, knowledge integration and instrumentalism. …”
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“…We call on future research to further elaborate on this misfit, which might be the Achilles heel for EU democracy.…”
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“…It can be seen that the Constitutional opening clause, in its various forms, leads to an international projection of fundamental rights in order to reinforce from the Constitution itself their recognition, respect, protection an assurance in countries that wish to establish their democracy with a Social State of Law. As a consequence, it invites us to reflect on where the evolution of fundamental rights finds itself.Keywords: Constitution, fundamental rights, constitutional opening clause.…”
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“…CIB's manipulative operations could be one of the greatest threats to freedom of expression and democracy in our society. CIB campaigns mislead others by acting with pre-arranged exceptional similarity and “secret” operations. …”
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“…The results provide insights on the challenges and characteristics of this new business model that is characterized by the management of investments and economy democracy while boosting innovation and handling competence. …”
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“…The analysis aims to explain how business mobilize their interests, what influence they have on public policies that affect the entire society, why and how they have participated in party politics and the expansion of democracy in Mexico. It shows how they started the twentieth century with a legitimacy deficit, expelled from the political scene because of the Revolution (1910–1921), and how they managed to grow and create powerful companies and organizations that allowed them to transnationalize and start the twenty-first century at the top of the power, not only economic, but also political. …”
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“…Based on Professor Amartya Sen's analysis of the link between famine and democracy, the following null hypothesis was tested: "Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence is not associated with governance". …”
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“…Remote Internet voting places the control and secrecy of the immediate voting environment on the shoulder of the individual voter but it also turns voting into yet another on-line activity thus endangering the well-known social nature of voting and possibly reducing the crucial sense of civic duty that is important for a healthy democracy. There is however a complete lack of evidence to what degree this actually materializes once electronic voting is introduced. …”
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“…Brazil’s national health system, the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) prioritises primary health care since 1994, the year democracy came to South Africa. Two family physicians from these countries met in Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro, a densely populated area where poverty, danger, drugs, tuberculosis and mental illness are the focus of the health system. …”
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“…However, they remained optimistic that democracy would usher in positive changes. In this article, we consider how mental health professionals working in post-apartheid South Africa experience their work. …”
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“…AIM: The aim of this study was to formulate an absconding rate as well as a descriptive profile of absconders since the inception of democracy and deinstitutionalisation. SETTING: The study was conducted at Sterkfontein Hospital, a specialised psychiatric hospital outside Johannesburg. …”
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“…A robust social contract, technological advancement and pervasive economic success in the context of democracy and capitalism propelled the project. Unfortunately, two underlying pillars of past success developed intensifying negative consequences, hastening socioeconomic decline: insatiable collective wants and global population growth. …”
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“…BACKGROUND: Young people have become disillusioned with mainstream electoral politics in established democracies, and are increasingly likely to engage in democracy on a case-by-case basis in issues that hold meaning for their everyday lives. …”
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