Is it possible to transform polarized conflicts through deep democracy?

Özden Melis Uluğ

doi:10.1037/pac0000452

Is it possible to transform polarized conflicts through deep democracy?

Peace and Conflict Journal of Peace Psychology ◽

10.1037/pac0000452 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (3) ◽

pp. 346-347

Author(s):

Özden Melis Uluğ

Keyword(s):

Deep Democracy

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Review: Double Trouble: Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy by Thompson III, J. Phillip.

Ethnic Studies Review ◽

10.1525/esr.2008.31.2.204 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 204-206

Author(s):

Ricky Green

Keyword(s):

Black Communities ◽

Black Mayors ◽

Deep Democracy

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The Long March: Deep Democracy in Cross-National Perspective

10.31235/osf.io/4r8d6 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Mohammad Ali Kadivar ◽

Adaner Usmani ◽

Benjamin H. Bradlow

Keyword(s):

State Office ◽

National Studies ◽

Deep Democracy ◽

Self Rule ◽

National Perspective ◽

Case Based ◽

Cross National ◽

The Ideal ◽

Self Organizing

Over the last several decades, dozens of dictatorships have become democracies. Yet while each has held free and fair elections, they have varied in the extent to which their citizens realize the ideal of self-rule. Why do some democracies distribute power to citizens while other democracies withhold it? Existing research is suggestive, but its implications are ambiguous. Cross-national studies have focused on democracy’s formal dimensions, while work on substantive democracy is case-based. We find that one of the most consistent and powerful explanations of substantive democratization is the length of unarmed pro-democratic mobilization prior to a transition. Through a case study of Brazil, we illustrate that these movements matter in three ways: first, because practices of self-organizing model and enable democratic reforms; second, because movement veterans use state office to deepen democracy; and third, because long movements yield civil societies with the capacity to demand the continuous deepening of democracy.

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