Mind Abstract Candice Delmas’ A Duty to Resist arrives, fittingly, in a world of increasing authoritarianism, and the caged children and burning forests left in its wake. Widely diagnosed as a failure t

Democracy's problems and possibilities

Despite the historically great success of democracy, today we can see a decline. There is also the doubt that democracy is able to tackle the most important problems of our time. In this area, the real threats to democracy are examined, as are the ways in which democracy can develop.

This paper analyses how living conditions and exposure to poverty during childhood and adolescence affect future probabilities for labour market exclusion and inclusion in early adulthood and in midli

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