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Abstract This study examines Swiss citizens' preferences for alternative political decision‐makers—independent experts, businesspeople, and ordinary citizens via referenda—relative to party politicians, and how these preferences, when combined with attitudes toward strong leadership, translate into voting orientations for the main Swiss parties.
Jessica Rosco, Oscar Mazzoleni
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ABSTRACT How do land claims articulated around belonging and the environment (re)shape claims to legitimacy? This article examines social mobilizations led by activists involved in environmental organizations, who define themselves as “autochthone”, and who take part in the contested co‐production of political forests in Côte d'Ivoire.
Ndèye Sokhna Dieng
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Le « courant clair » de la démocratie.
En cette veille de présidentielles, la proximité donne-t-elle encore… la migraine à certains candidats ou fait-elle pousser des ailes ? Si elle peut être parfois sacrifiée (les polices municipales faisaient désordre), sa rhétorique a de beaux jours ...
Clara Jezewski-Bec
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The Redistricting is one of the most important ways of redrawing the district boundaries in the United States of America. The widespread use of citizens redistricting commissions conveys to several new focus points.
Émilie BONNET
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Practicing Power‐Sharing: How Political Adversaries (Fail to) Rule Jointly
ABSTRACT Why does power‐sharing lead to peace and effective governance in some cases but not others? Whereas the current literature on this question predominantly focuses on institutional design, this article argues that more attention should be given to the everyday activities, routines and processes through which power‐sharing is operated.
Alexandre Wadih Raffoul
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The "Bolivarian Revolution" of the president Hugo Chávez put the concept of "protagonic and participative democracy" to the centre of the transition towards the "Socialism of the 21st century". The community councils created in 2006 materializes the will
Mathieu Uhel
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Revisiting the Sectoral Cleavage in Canada: Evidence From the Canadian Election Studies
ABSTRACT According to the budget‐maximizing bureaucrat model, public sector employees should rationally seek to increase government budgets to increase their own power. In contrast to most advanced democracies, class and sectoral voting has largely been neglected in Canada. The ideological and voting preferences of the public sector has been unexamined
Matthew Polacko +2 more
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Jean‐Baptiste Say and the Political Economy of Republican Utopia in Revolutionary France
Abstract This article offers a fresh analysis of Olbie (1798), a frequently overlooked essay by the French author and economist Jean‐Baptiste Say (1767–1832). It positions Olbie as a central text for comprehending Say's political thought and situates it within the wider historical context, in particular French republicanism during the 1790s.
MINCHUL KIM
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Les projets éducatifs territoriaux au coeur de l’animation en Guyane et aux Antilles françaises
Les sociétés françaises d’Amérique (Guyane, Martinique, Guadeloupe) présentent depuis des décennies des contextes socio-économiques et environnementaux fragilisés.
Christian Cécile
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Through our present research, we will try to confirm if our municipalities use territorial governance that encourages participatory democracy, the main goal is to understand the methods and strategies able to create a win-win relationship between ...
Ghalem BENBRIKA, Faouzi GHIDOUCHE
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