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The new electoral law in Romania: Discipline and financial transparency

Sfera Politicii, 2015
The article analyzes the new electoral law voted and enacted in the spring of 2015, which reintroduced the plurinominal vote, regarding the election the senators and deputes, not by uninominal election, but by voting a party-list.
Florin Grecu
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Political Corruption and Electoral Systems Seen with Economists’ Lenses [PDF]

, 2014
The ongoing process of democratisation lead to the growing importance of the electoral systems that regulate the procedures of gaining and legitimizing power in democracy.
Dzionek-Kozłowska
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

‘These reforms have teeth’: The affective dimensions of teacher education policy enactment

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The affective dimensions of education policy enactment have often received less attention in the research literature, especially regarding teacher education policy. This article reports on a study of the affective responses of university‐based teacher educators in England to the significant initial teacher education reforms of 2019–2022: the ...
Ian Cushing, Viv Ellis
wiley   +1 more source

The Evolution and Features of the Modern Electoral System of Morocco in the Context of the International Electoral Standards

Московский журнал международного права, 2016
The electoral system of Morocco was forming and developing under the conditions of the monarchical form of government. For years, the influence of the monarch on the electoral process became the cause of disagreements between the political forces in the ...
Leonid P. Arak
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Party Conventions Are a Free-For-All for Influence Peddling: The Soft Money Loophole for Lobbyists [PDF]

, 2008
The Democratic and Republican national conventions are supposed to be publicly financed electoral events with reasonable ethics restrictions on influence-peddling by lobbyists. However, the conventions have become mostly privately financed soirees funded
Angela Canterbury, Craig Holman, Zoe Bridges-Curry   +2 more
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The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall, Yusraa Maryam, Sumeya Loonat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Granite Staters More Concerned About Voter Fraud in U.S. Than In NH 11/16/17 [PDF]

, 2017
A small majority of New Hampshire residents believe voter fraud is a serious problem in the country as a whole, but far fewer believe it is a serious problem in New Hampshire.
Survey Center, UNH
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Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Legal Position of the Regional Electoral Commission for Conducting Voting in the Circuit and the Regional Electoral Commission for Determining the Results of Voting in the Circuit – de lege lata and de lege ferenda Postulates in the Light of the 2018 Local Self-government Elections

Studia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2020
During the local self-government elections that took place in 2018 in Poland, for the first time regional electoral commissions for conducting voting in the circuit and regional electoral commissions for determining the results of voting in the circuit ...
Jarosław Czerw
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