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Fostering Women's Political Leadership Through Government Accountability: Evidence From OECD Countries

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women remain significantly underrepresented in political leadership worldwide. This study examines how different combinations of government accountability mechanisms enhance women's political representation (WPR) as a pathway to leadership in 30 OECD countries.
Samira Nazar, Seyed Ashkan Zarghami
wiley   +1 more source

“Dreamers” and Others: Immigration Protests, Enforcement, and Civil Disobedience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this short paper I hope to use some ideas drawn from the theory and practice of civil disobedience to address one of the most difficult questions in immigration theory, one rarely addressed by philosophers or other theorists working on the topic: How ...
Lister, Matthew J.
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Mixed‐methods systematic review exploring the associations underpinning active outdoor play with connection to nature and environmental stewardship

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Active outdoor play has been positioned in the literature as an opportunity to address concerns over climate (in)action and the rising trend of disconnection from the outdoors and nature. The objective of this systematic review was to examine associations between active outdoor play and people's connection to nature and/or environmental ...
Louise de Lannoy   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay: Civil Disobedience and State Anxiety

open access: yesBritish Journal of Political Science
Political philosophers writing about civil disobedience have tended to neglect the anxiety of the state about such disobedience. I identify three components of state anxiety – Contagion, Fragility, Value – concerning the contagiousness of disobedience ...
Chong-Ming Lim
doaj   +1 more source

Revitalizing democracy through civil disobedience

open access: yesFilosofia Unisinos, 2016
Civil disobedience is a widespread form of political protest used by minorities to make their voices heard in democratic societies. It is a mechanism of participation in the process of shaping public opinion, and of intervention, by via negativa, in the
Juan Carlos Velasco
doaj   +1 more source

Linguistic disobedience: Restoring power to civic language

open access: yesCritical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 2020
Review of: Komska, Y., Moyd, M. and Gramling, D. 2019. Linguistic disobedience: Restoring power to civil language. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hadiza Kere Abdulrahman
doaj   +1 more source

Justifying civil disobedience: an essay on political protest in a constitutional democracy [PDF]

open access: yes
In this essay I examine whether and when civil disobedience -a principled and illegal act of political protest -is ever justifiable in a constitutional democracy.
Smith, William
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Reflections on Civil Disobedience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
土倉莞爾教授還暦記念論文
Terajima Toshio, 寺島 俊穂
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Civil disobedience by scientists helps press for urgent climate action

open access: yesNature Climate Change, 2022
S. Capstick   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dangerous Deference: What the British Public Think about Civil‐Military Relations

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Accepted norms of democratic civil‐military relations aver, regarding the use of force, that military officers may not substitute civilians’ judgement with their own and that civilians should not follow their guidance blindly. These theories often rest on the presumption that three critical actors—government, armed forces, and the public ...
David Blagden   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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