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Who belongs in South Africa? ‘Tapestry nationalism’ in the African National Congress

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 148-166, January 2026.
Abstract Perhaps more than any other organisation, the African National Congress (ANC) has defined who belongs in South Africa. Yet, how does the organisation imagine national belonging, and how has this developed? We explore these questions through a discourse analysis of the organisation's annual ‘January 8’ statements.
David Jeffery‐Schwikkard, Thabisani Ndlovu   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Switzerland: Political Developments and Data in 2024

European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 611-636, December 2025.
Abstract In 2024, while Switzerland was no longer grappling with immediate crises, the lingering effects of an overlapping crisis remained evident. Public dissatisfaction grew, driven by perceptions that state interventions disproportionately favoured banks and large corporations, while the needs of ordinary citizens amid a cost‐of‐living crisis were ...
RAHEL FREIBURGHAUS
wiley   +1 more source

The lessons of Northern Ireland: lessons of Northern Ireland and the relevance of the regional context [PDF]

, 2011
It should be stated at the outset that the notion of Northern Ireland’s political settlement as a model for other societies evokes as much hostility as it does enthusiasm.
Guelke, Adrian
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Municipality‐Level Outcomes of Direct‐Democratic Votes in Switzerland, 1866–2023

Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 753-770, December 2025.
Abstract Switzerland relies heavily on direct‐democratic institutions to decide on a wide range of political issues. Since 1848, more than 600 direct‐democratic votes have taken place at the national level. However, the lack of comprehensive data has limited the systematic use of these votes for research.
Patrick Emmenegger, Lucas Leemann, Andreina Thoma, André Walter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Political Polarization Between Opponents and Supporters of Ruling Parties Following the 2019 Lebanese Uprising

European Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 55, Issue 6, Page 979-998, October 2025.
ABSTRACT The 17 October 2019 uprising in Lebanon marked a pivotal period of economic crisis and discontent with the ruling elite. We examined social cohesion post‐uprising by exploring political polarization between “anti‐ruling parties” citizens and “partisan/unaligned” citizens, in two surveys with a community sample (Study 1, N = 357) and a ...
Mortada Al‐Amine, Rim Saab, Charles Harb, Rima Majed   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Bright Side of Breaking Up: How Territorial Fragmentation Increases Political Engagement in Local Communities

Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 951-964, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Territorial reforms of administrative boundaries primarily aim at pursuing cost and administrative efficiency objectives, but their impact on the political engagement of local communities remains unclear. Moreover, while amalgamations have been widely studied, little is known about the effects of territorial fragmentation.
Augusto Cerqua, Dante Di Matteo
wiley   +1 more source

The Centripetal Spatial Vote Distribution Requirement in Presidential Elections: The Cases of Nigeria and Indonesia [PDF]

, 2017
The principal aim of this article is to explain the specificity of the requirement for the spatial distribution of votes in presidential elections – an institution that has existed in Nigeria since 1979 and in Indonesia since 2001.
Trzcinski, Krzysztof
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Federalism: A Comprehensive Review of Its Evolution, Typologies, and Contemporary Issues

Encyclopedia
This study is intended to conduct a comprehensive review of federalism. This study starts from the institutional aspect and analyzes how federalism, as a compound structure, divides power between the central and local governments.
Lingkai Kong
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Time to invite the ‘others’ to the table: a proposal to make South Tyrol more inclusive [PDF]

, 2016
South Tyrol, an autonomous and predominantly German-speaking province in northern Italy, is regarded as one of the most successful cases of ‘consociational’ democracy – a political system in which people deeply divided along ethnic, linguistic, or other ...
Larin, Stephen J., Röggla, Marc
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Institutional Engineering, Management of Ethnicity, and Democratic Failure in Burundi

Africa Spectrum, 2016
This article argues that constitutional engineering along consociational lines in Burundi – explicitly accommodating ethnicity rather than attempting to suppress it – was instrumental in reducing the political role of ethnicity, but that other endogenous
Filip Reyntjens
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