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Integrating Traditional Authority into Electoral Governance: Lessons from the Bida Emirate Experience, Nigeria

JAKPP (Jurnal Analisis Kebijakan dan Pelayanan Publik)
Traditional authority remains a central component of governance and policy mediation across Africa, where culturally grounded legitimacy often complements formal state institutions.
Idrees Mahmud Gana, Sakina Nna Umar
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Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl, Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell, Yating Hu, Benjamin Adams, Sarah Bergen   +5 more
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Autocratic Electoral Management: Lessons From Thailand

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
How can we ensure quality elections when the key institutions responsible for the organisation of polls are openly partisan and anti-democratic? In their 2017 paper, Birch and van Ham suggest that partisan electoral management bodies (EMBs) do not matter
Petra Alderman
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Ghana’s 2020 electoral politics: an assessment of the electoral commission

Cogent Social Sciences
The independence of election management bodies is very crucial for the durability and success of every democracy. This paper assessed the independence of Ghana’s Electoral Commission in the conduct of the December 2020 elections using the de jure ...
Akpeko Agbevade
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Do elections matter for private-sector healthcare management in Brazil? An analysis of municipal health policy

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background This study analyzed several political determinants of increased private-sector management in Brazilian health care. In Brazil, the poor depend almost exclusively on the public Unified Health System (the SUS), which remains severely underfunded.
Alecia J. McGregor, Carlos Eduardo Siqueira, Alan M. Zaslavsky, Robert J. Blendon   +3 more
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Better workers, better elections? Electoral management body workforces and electoral integrity worldwide [PDF]

International Political Science Review, 2019
Building better elections is a central task for the study of democracy and democratisation. Despite this, there have been no cross-national studies on the staff who manage and implement elections: electoral management body (EMB) workforces. This article provides the first macroscopic worldwide picture of workforce characteristics, human resource ...
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 301-328, March 2025.
Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
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Harnessing Artificial Intelligence in Electoral Processes: Emerging Opportunities and Innovations

RUDN Journal of Political Science
The rapid development of technologies is an occasion to reflect on their capabilities in various fields, including political, related to electoral processes.
Nikolay A. Baranov
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Electoral Management Bodies Assessment of Federal Republic of Nigeria

, 2022
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was established by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to among other things organize elections into various political offices in the country.The functions of INEC as contained in Section 15, Part 1 of the Third Schedule of the 1999 Constitution (As Amended) and Section 2 of the ...
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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