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Why Compulsory Voting is Not the Answer

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Electoral turnout in the UK is low and uneven. This has led to renewed interest in compulsory voting, which has been advocated in recent reports from The Constitution Society, Labour Together, and the Institute for Public Policy Research. This article offers a critical perspective on these proposals.
Ben Saunders
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EUPopLink Country report - Czechia. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Naxera V, Halounová A, Gueorguieva P.
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The Law of the Electoral Count

Political Science Quarterly, 1888
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Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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Lingua Franca of Ideology? Common and Country-Specific Measures of Symbolic and Operational Ideology in Asian and Western Countries. [PDF]

Public Opin Q
Ogura I, Miwa H, Kobayashi T, Kasuya Y.
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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EUPopLink Country report - Montenegro. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Lazarevic A, Surlić S.
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Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
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The fundamental rights risks of countering cognitive warfare with artificial intelligence. [PDF]

Ethics Inf Technol
Lahmann H, Custers B, Scott BI.
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The Effects of Recent Polarized Elections on Mental Health

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Researchers investigate how recent elections in the United States have influenced mental health, especially among political‐ and policy‐based election losers. The previous two presidential elections worsened the self‐reported mental health of Americans on average. Likely partisan election losers and those who had the most to lose in terms
MICHAEL E. SHEPHERD, BETHANY ALBERTSON
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