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Women in Land Struggles: The Implications of Female Activism and Emotional Resistance for Gender Equity [PDF]

, 2019
Despite deeply engrained images of female domesticity and conventional gender norms, women are increasingly joining land struggles in Cambodia. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, my findings suggest that land rights activism in Cambodia has ...
Hennings, Anne
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Executive hour or political competition in times of crisis?—An analysis of public crisis reporting on the COVID‐19 lockdowns in Germany

European Policy Analysis, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 32-53, Winter 2025.
Abstract While much work has looked at how governments responded to the Corona pandemic, little consideration has been given to how the crisis affected party competition and what positions political actors took during this period. How were political actors' positions on COVID‐19 portrayed in daily newspapers? And how can we explain these patterns?
Katja Demler
wiley   +1 more source

Warum die Direkte Demokratie den Anstieg der Staatsquote in der Schweiz nicht verhindern konnte [PDF]

, 2004
Diese Arbeit dokumentiert und analysiert den Anstieg der Staatsausgaben und der Defizite in den 90er Jahren. Die unmittelbaren Ursachen des Anstiegs sind bekannt: höhere Ausgaben für die Altersvorsorge und andere Bereiche der sozialen Sicherheit sowie ...
Bodmer, Frank
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THE LEGACY OF TOLERATION: J. G. HERDER AND MOSES MENDELSSOHN'S DEFENCE OF PLURALISM

German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 31-48, January 2025.
ABSTRACT Moses Mendelssohn's ‘Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism’ (1783) was a milestone in the promotion of religious toleration – a principle that is constitutive for human rights in their contemporary conception. This article argues that ‘Jerusalem’ borrows from a surprising source: Johann Gottfried Herder's world history, which is ...
Yael Almog
wiley   +1 more source

Citizens’ Participation Using Sortition: A practical guide to using random selection to guarantee diverse democratic participation [PDF]

, 2018
Sortition is part of our everyday lives. If a deci- sion is to be unbiased and incorruptible as well as guarantee absolute equality of opportunity, it is often decided by random selection.
Vergne, Antoine
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DIE ‘GOTTESRECHTE DES MENSCHEN’: HUMAN RIGHTS AS SECULARISED RIGHTS IN HEINRICH HEINE'S ESSAYS

German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 90-107, January 2025.
ABSTRACT Heinrich Heine shows in his essays on France and Germany that human rights have a religious prehistory. For him, ‘Menschheitsrechte’ are not merely secular rights but secularised rights. The human rights proclaimed in the American and French Revolutions are the secularised historical form in which the fundamental ‘Urrechte der Menschheit ...
Kyung‐Ho Cha
wiley   +1 more source

Blick zurück in der Krise? Wie Deutschland an drei große Demokratiejubiläen erinnert

Historische Zeitschrift
In den vergangenen beiden Jahren wurden in Deutschland drei große Demokratiejubiläen begangen: 175 Jahre 1848er-Revolution, 75 Jahre Grundgesetz sowie 35 Jahre friedliche Revolution und Mauerfall.
Mende Silke
doaj   +1 more source

From de jure to de facto transparency: Analyzing the compliance gap in light of freedom of information laws

Regulation &Governance, Volume 19, Issue 1, Page 253-283, January 2025.
Abstract Freedom of information (FOI) laws empower citizens to access public information from public organizations, enhancing government transparency and accountability. Previous studies have evaluated government transparency and FOI compliance based on the proactive release of information and governments' responses to citizens' requests.
Julia Trautendorfer, Lisa Hohensinn, Dennis Hilgers   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Demokrati

Utbildning & Demokrati – tidskrift för didaktik och utbildningspolitk, 2023
care educations. Danish law states that vocational education and training, VET, must contribute to developing pupils´ interest in, and ability to participate actively in democratic society. Based on Dewey’s theory, this paper focuses on managers´ perspectives on implementing the intention of the law.
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Shared Class, Shared Opinion? Policy Preference Congruence Between Citizens and Legislators

Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 428-445, December 2024.
Abstract Recent studies have shown that policymakers and policy outcomes in advanced democracies are biased against the preferences of less affluent and working‐class citizens. One reason for this inequality in substantive representation might be that most policymakers are well‐off themselves.
Reto Wüest, Luzia Helfer, Frédéric Varone   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source