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How Do I Answer This? A Queer Critique of Australian Census Forms and the Reification of Cisheteronormative Families

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
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Election Reform and Women’s Representation: Ranked Choice Voting in the U.S.

Politics and Governance, 2021
Ranked choice voting first gained a foothold in the U.S. during the Progressive Movement in the 20th century as calls for electoral reforms grew. Ranked choice voting was implemented in many cities across the U.S. in both single- and multi-seat districts.
Cynthia Richie Terrell, Courtney Lamendola, Maura Reilly   +2 more
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Formal Institutions and Women’s Electoral Representation in Four European Countries: Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands [PDF]

, 2016
This research attempted to produce evidence that formal institutions, such as electoral and internal party quotas, can advance women’s active roles in the public sphere using the cases of four European countries: Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the ...
Lu, Sophia
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Rigging by the state apparatus: systemic electoral fraud in Mozambique jeopardizes the credibility of democracy and creates room for political violence

Frontiers in Political Science
In Mozambique, systematic electoral fraud has persistently prevented the will of the electorate, as expressed at the ballot box, from being reflected in the selection of national leadership.
Borges Joaquim Faduco Nhamirre, Borges Joaquim Faduco Nhamirre   +1 more
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The problem of the legal status of electoral commissions as organs of the public administration of elections in post-Soviet countries

Zarządzanie Innowacyjne w Gospodarce i Biznesie, 2017
The article analyses the current practice of forming election commissions and the way they fulfill their tasks as a part of public administration. The tasks and functions of the state in the sphere of elections administration are identified.
Valentyn Orlov
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa, Jennifer Smith‐Merry, Kuo‐yi Jade Chang   +2 more
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Aceptar el veredicto del árbitro: el último reto de la democracia electoral en México

Revista del Instituto Electoral del Estado de México. Apuntes Electorales, 2015
En este ensayo se describe la importancia para la democracia mexicana de fomentar en los candidatos un comportamiento ético durante las contiendas comiciales, sobre todo para que los que no obtengan la victoria acepten los resultados.
Carolina Varela Martínez
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe, Judith Bessant, Madeline Drake   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consequences of the Electoral System in Polish Municipalities – Pathologies and Abuses [PDF]

Polish Political Science Yearbook, 2018
Pathologies and abuses accompany elections and are connected with the electoral system both in its narrow and broad sense. Moreover, they stem from a human nature and a degree of democratic principles consolidation.
Justyna Wasil, Monika Sidor, Katarzyna A. Kuć-Czajkowska   +2 more
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