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• Parliamentary Democracy Versus Direct Democracy? : Challenging Liberal, Representative Democracy in the German Bundestag During the Anti-nuclear Demonstrations of 1995–1997 

  Kaarkoski, Miina (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

  In German politics, concepts of parliamentarism and the relationship between parliamentarism and democracy have evolved since the nineteenth century. Politicians, citizens and scholars have regularly redefined and challenged ...

• ‘Human rights and democracy are not self-evident’ : Finnish student teachers’ perceptions on democracy and human rights education 

  Kasa, Tuija; Rautiainen, Matti; Malama, Mia; Kallioniemi, Arto (University of South-Eastern Norway, 2021)

  This article discusses democracy and human rights education (DHRE) in Finnish teacher education, drawing on existing literature, curricula and a survey of student teachers’ perceptions. Earlier studies suggested that DHRE ...

• Debating the forming of a nation : direct and parliamentary democracy in the constitutional debates of the Dáil Éireann 1922 

  Sandvik, Antti (2021)

  Tämä maisterintutkielma tarkastelee Irlannin perustuslaillisia väittelyitä vuonna 1922 maan parlamentin alahuoneessa, Dáil Éireannissa, tutkien kuinka tulevan Irlannin vapaavaltion demokratian muodostamisesta väiteltiin. ...

• The People’s Assembly : Testing the Collaborative (e)-Democracy 

  Toode, Ülle (Bastas Publications, 2020)

  This paper aims to critically analyse the Estonian People’s Assembly (EPA), a crowdsourcing initiative carried out from 2013 to 2014. During the project, citizens could participate in decision-making and make proposals for ...

• The fragility of Finnish parliamentary democracy at the moment when Prussianism fell 

  Ihalainen, Pasi (Sage Publications, 2019)

  The Finnish case is in many ways illustrative of the complexities of democratisation after World War I. Finland found itself at the nexus of a Swedish constitutional tradition, legalism and ideological controversies adopted ...