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Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns [PDF]

, 2007
This report finds a steep rise in illegal firings of pro-union workers in the 2000s relative to the last half of the 1990s. It uses published data from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to update an index of the probability that a pro-union ...
Ben Zipperer, John Schmitt
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Raising the Tone?:The Impact of 'Positive' and 'Negative' Campaigning on Voting in the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election [PDF]

, 2010
Most survey-based research on campaign effects in British elections has focussed on exposure to the campaign. Far less attention has been given to how the campaign is perceived, although American research on the effects of negativecampaigning suggests ...
Denver, D., Johns, R.A., Mitchell, J., Pattie, C.   +3 more
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Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
wiley   +1 more source

The Violation of the Law of Defamation in Political Campaigns on Social Media During Nigeria's 2023 General Elections

Ianna Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Background: Although Nigeria’s 2023 general campaigns featured prominently on social media, limited studies have examined the violation of the law of defamation in the process.
Okoli Basil Chuka, Monday Aliu, Marian Ofunu Ujah , Ken Amaechi Egbo, Egbara Owa Owa, Peter Labe Atime   +5 more
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Mobilizing opposition voters under electoral authoritarianism: A field experiment in Russia

Research & Politics, 2020
Under electoral authoritarianism opposition supporters often abstain from voting because they think that their votes will not make a difference. Opposition parties try to counteract this apathy by informational campaigns that stress how voting can impact
Leonid Peisakhin, Arturas Rozenas, Sergey Sanovich   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quid Pro Quo: Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance in India- Working Paper 276 [PDF]

In developing countries where elections are costly and accountability mechanisms weak, politicians often turn to illicit means of financing campaigns.
Devesh Kapur, Milan Vaishnav
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We ought to discuss the social construction of cadavers: Here's why and how

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Fatima Ehsan, Susan Lamb
wiley   +1 more source

‘It's all very well having a diverse curriculum, but if there is no curriculum, it can be as diverse as you like’: Precarity and decolonising in the neoliberal UK higher education system

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton, Barbara Adewumi, Laura R. Bailey, Jacob W. Moore, Lauren‐Marie Aba Amoah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns, 1951-2007 [PDF]

This report updates an earlier report from January of 2007, which found a steep rise in illegal firings of pro-union workers in the 2000s relative to the last half of the 1990s.
Ben Zipperer, John Schmitt
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Elections and Election Campaigns (SC 888) [PDF]

, 2013
Finding aid and scan (Click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 888. Campaign letter, 24 October 1907, signed by Samuel Wilbur Hager, Democratic candidate for governor and printed campaign advertising brochure distributed by the
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &
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