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Depuis les mouvements anti-guerre en Angleterre jusqu’à la ZAD de Notre-Dame-des-Landes, en passant par les contre-sommets altermondialistes, le carnaval a été réinventé depuis les années 1980 comme une pratique militante à part entière : comment, par qui et pourquoi ?

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What does compliance with judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) look like in states on the spectrum of democratisation? This work provides an in-depth investigation of three such states—Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia— in the wider context of the growing 'implementation crisis' in Europe, and does so through a combined lens of theoretical insights and rich empirical data.

The book offers a detailed analysis of the domestic contexts varying from democratising to increasingly authoritarian tendencies, which shape the states’ compliance behaviour, and discusses why and how such states comply with human rights judgments. It puts particular focus on ‘contested’ compliance as a new form of compliance behaviour involving states’ acting in ‘bad faith’ and argues for a revival of the concept of partial compliance. The wider impact that ECtHR judgments have in states on the spectrum of democratisation is also explored.

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Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Defining Compliance

Chapter 3 Azerbaijan. The New Achilles Heel of the Council of Europe?

Chapter 4 Armenia’s Compliance with Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. A Litmus Test for the CoE?

Chapter 5 Georgia as Council of Europe’s Success Story in the South Caucasus?

Chapter 6 Challenging the Unconditional Obligation. Partial Compliance with ECtHR Judgments in the South Caucasus States

Chapter 7 Beyond Compliance. Identifying Impact of ECtHR Judgments in the South Caucasus States

Chapter 8 Conclusions

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What is Structural Injustice? is the first edited collection to bring together the voices of leading structural injustice scholars to provide an overview of this profoundly important concept.

The volume features specially selected original and essential works on structural injustice, providing a range of disciplinary, ontological, and epistemological perspectives on what structural injustice is, and includes feminist and post-colonial theories to interrogate how structural injustice exacerbates and reproduces existing inequalities and relations of power.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International] licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Contributors: Jonathan Wolff, Mara Marin, Sally Haslanger, Maeve McKeown, Jude Browne, Catherine Lu, Jade Schiff, Ryoa Chung, Alison Jaggar, Theresa Tobin, Lewis R Gordon, Brooke Ackerly, Alasia Nuti, Virginia Mantouvalou, Serena Parekh.

Edited by Jude Browne, Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, and Maeve McKeown, Campus Fryslân, University of Groningen.

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Introduction, Jude Browne & Maeve McKeown

1:Structural Harm, Structural Injustice, Structural Repair, Jonathan Wolff

2:Transformative Action as Structural and Publicly-Constituted, Mara Marin

3:Agency Under Structural Constraints in Social Systems, Sally Haslanger

4:Pure, Avoidable, and Deliberate Structural Injustice, Maeve McKeown

5:The Untraceability of Structural Injustice, Jude Browne

6:Responsibility, Structural Injustice and Settler Colonialism, Catherine Lu

7:Structural Injustice and the Two Faces of Vulnerability, Jade Schiff

8:COVID-19 and Global Structural Health Inequality, Ryoa Chung

9:Moral Justification and Structural Epistemic Injustice, Alison Jaggar & Theresa Tobin

10:Decolonizing Structural Justice and Political Responsibility, Lewis R Gordon

11:Murmurations of Injustice: Dynamics of Structural Injustice and Epistemic Oppression, Brooke Ackerly

12:Towards a Pluralistic Account of Structural Injustice, Alasia Nuti

13:Structures of Injustice, the Law, and Exploitative Work, Virginia Mantouvalou

14:Gender Inequality, Structural Injustice and Political Responsibility, Serena Parekh

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The Dispersion of Power is an urgent call to rethink centuries of conventional wisdom about what democracy is, why it matters, and how to make it better. Drawing from history, social science, psychology, and critical theory, it explains why elections do not and cannot realize the classic ideal of popular rule, and why prevailing strategies of democratic reform often make things worse. Instead, Bagg argues, we should see democracy as a way of protecting public power from capture-an alternative vision that is at once more realistic and more inspiring.

Despite their many shortcomings, real-world elections do prevent the most extreme forms of tyranny, and are therefore indispensable. In dealing with the vast inequalities that remain, however, we cannot rely on standard solutions such as electoral reform, direct democracy, deliberation, and participatory governance. Instead, Bagg shows, protecting and enriching democracy requires addressing underlying inequalities of power directly. In part, this entails substantive policies attacking the advantages of wealthy elites. Even more crucially, deepening democracy requires the organization of oppositional, countervailing power among ordinary people. Neither task is easy, but historical precedents exist in both cases-and if democracy is to survive contemporary crises, leaders and citizens alike must find ways to revive and reinvent these essential democratic practices for the 21st century.

Samuel Ely Bagg, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina.

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Part 1: Democratic Foundations

1:A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy
2:Beyond Responsive Representation
3:Beyond Participatory Inclusion

Part 2: Democratic Principles

4:What is State Capture?
5:Structuring Public Power: The Liberal Demands of Democracy
6:Dispersing Private Power: The Radical Demands of Democracy
7:Resisting State Capture as a Democratic Ideal

Part 3: Democratic Practices

8:The Power of the Multitude: A Realistic Defense of Elections
9:Fighting Power with Power: An Agenda for Democratic Policy
10:Organizing for Power: A Paradigm for Democratic Action