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Does Federalism Work for Afghanistan?

September 30, 2023 Democratic Theory, Research 2 Comments 7 Views

In countries like Afghanistan, where there are important ethnic, cultural and linguistic divergencies, a unitary system of government is always a great source of hostility and bitterness on the part of minority groups.Read More

Talking straight to youngsters in Hamburg

May 7, 2019 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Deliberation, Project reports, Research No Comments 3 Views

We are in a less affluent part from Hamburg for a two-day Workshop. About 70% of our 32 participants have a migration background. We talk for about 10 hours with two different groupsRead More

Emotions and Political Deliberation

April 8, 2019 by Phillip Reissenweber, Deliberation, Democratic Theory, Research, Uncategorized No Comment 9 Views

Reading the title of this article might evoke pictures of people violently shouting at each other or bursting out into tears while pleading their cause in front of an audience. Whereas the firstRead More

“People have to work!” A Deliberation at a Secondary School in Brandenburg

March 14, 2019 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Deliberation, Project reports, Research No Comment 2 Views

This “Schule mit Courage” in a town East of Berlin has in total 330 pupils. About a third are first generation migrants or refugees (mostly from Syria or Afghanistan). The school works withRead More

Deliberating Homosexuality: Empirical Observations and Analyses

February 28, 2019 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Deliberation, Project reports, Research No Comment 3 Views

Like many other western countries, Germany still has medical doctors, therapists and priests that believe that homosexuality is an illness that can be cured. For instance, the weekly Der Spiegel recently reported onRead More

Countering Radicalization: What the Research on Deliberation and Radicalization Teach

October 7, 2018 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Deliberation, Democratic Theory, Extremism and Monism, Research No Comments 5 Views

Could radicalization be prevented or reversed by bringing together those that have seemingly entered this path, with other not (yet) radicalized citizens, to discuss fundamental issues like: democracy, pluralism, freedom, autonomy, respect andRead More

Charles Edward Lindblom, In Memoriam

April 24, 2018 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Democratic Theory, Research, Science Watch, Uncategorized No Comment 5 Views

On January 30, 2018, Charles Lindblom died at the age of 100. His ideas on, among others, policy making processes, democracy, the limits and possibilities of social and political science, impairment, and usableRead More

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