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Election administration harms and ballot design: A study of Florida's 2018 United States Senate race

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We introduce a typology of election administration harms and apply it to empirically study the consequences of ballot design. Our typology distinguishes between individual, electoral, and systemic harms. Together, it clarifies why ballot design can be a particular vulnerability in election administration.
Michael Morse   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Populism and the rule of law: The importance of institutional legacies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Existing work sees populist governments undermining the rule of law because they seek to dismantle institutional constraints on their personalistic plebiscitarian rule. We argue that populist rulers pose a greater threat to legal impartiality, equality, and compliance when they face a legacy of weak rule of law.
Andreas Kyriacou, Pedro Trivin
wiley   +1 more source

Constitutional Court in Indonesia

open access: yesJurnal Hukum & Pembangunan, 2017
This idea is a reflection of the aspiration of the lndonesian people to build up a democratic and justice society. The problem is where is the position of this institution in our state structure? The author express the alternative outlook that place "Pengadilan Tata Negara" (as the translation of Constitutional Court) under the Supreme Court and ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Peers, equals, and jurors: New data and methods on legal equality in Leveller thought

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We consider the Levellers' conception of equality relative to their contemporaries during the Civil War(s) period. We compile a corpus of hundreds of seventeenth−century pamphlets and combine this with novel word embedding techniques trained on millions of Early Modern English documents to make statements about word “meanings.” We focus on ...
Melissa Schwartzberg, Arthur Spirling
wiley   +1 more source

Diversity: Beyond Recognition in Bosnia and Refusal in France

open access: yesAustrian Law Journal, 2015
ENGLISH: Diversity is a condition necessary for the building of a pluralist democratic society if it is perceived as a source of enrichment. But when its recognition proves to be partial and therefore excluding some categories of individuals from the ...
Constance Grewe
doaj  

Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishment

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Religious establishment today often takes a multifaith form, whereby multiple religions are supported in different ways and to different degrees. In order to contribute to the development of a normative framework for assessing practices and regimes of multifaith establishment, this article recommends the concept of “social alienation ...
Andrew Shorten
wiley   +1 more source

Compulsory voting increases men's turnout most

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Equal turnout fosters equal representation. As such, researchers have long sought to understand what causes gender differences in voter participation. I argue that compulsory voting increases men's turnout relative to that of women. This is because men are particularly receptive to external incentives, while women are more intrinsically ...
Shane P. Singh
wiley   +1 more source

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