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<title>Rationale</title>
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<description> - The focus on access is a radical choice for citizen oriented governance, both in practice and in research methodology. Not policies or institutions are the departure for action and analysis, but the actual situation people find themselves in.</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:41:44 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>(Rationale Continued) What is the state of democratic governance in the 21st century?</title>
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<description> - Democracy as a form of government has spread and consolidated worldwide at a steady pace over the last decades. It has gradually been replacing authoritarian regimes that cannot be popularly held accountable for its actions towards its citizens.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:08:17 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>What does Improving Access mean?</title>
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<description> - Improving Access means ensuring that the dimensions of democracy mentioned above in the &#x3C;a target=</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:05:48 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to link theory and practice: innovations in governance</title>
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<description> - Once we have identified the &#xE2;&#x80;&#x93; sometimes deeply hidden or seemingly invisible &#xE2;&#x80;&#x93; problems of democratic governance and understood the mechanisms behind these problems we can start looking for solutions.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:06:24 +0100</pubDate>
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