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Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study

open access: yesBritish 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

BUILDING DEMOCRACY: DE JURE AND DE FACTO AUTONOMY IN ELECTORAL MANAGEMENT BODIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND AFRICA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This work studies the autonomy in electoral management bodies (EMBs) in Latin America and Africa. Specifically, my research aims to answer the two following two questions: a) When are de jure independent electoral institutions able to aid in building ...
Trelles Yarza, Luis Alejandro
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Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

open access: yesBritish 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

Rising Strong: Cultivating Resilience in Edible City Entrepreneurship. Insights Into the Landscape of Urban Food Initiatives

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Romanian Electoral Management Body: Between the Governmental Model and the Independent Model

open access: yes, 2023
This study examines the Romanian Electoral Management Body (EMB), focusing on its dualistic structure. It distinguishes between the formal independence and functional independence of electoral management institutions and proposes a qualitative evaluation of the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) and the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC).
Buti, Daniel, Radu, Alexandru
openaire   +2 more sources

Default Effect in ESG Investment: When a Recommendation Goes a Long Way

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Individual investors display a positive attitude toward ESG investments but typically fail to act upon it. We report results from a preregistered online experiment testing a default option on 1050 US investors examining the mechanisms driving the effectiveness of default options in promoting ESG investments.
Sai Sravanthi Ramadugula   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Constraints and Corporate Sustainability Performance: Do Climate Exposure and People's Climate Attention Matter?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between financial constraints and a firm's sustainability performance. Our empirical analysis utilises a panel of 40,445 observations from 9466 listed non‐financial firms across 44 countries, spanning the period from 2002 to 2019.
Boying Xu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How to mitigate money politics in the electoral contest? Impediment detection, bibliometrics analysis and proposed design

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences
Money politics is one of the critical obstacles impairing the electoral contestation. If such an obstacle cannot be conquered, it jeopardizes the path of democratic consolidation. Using the Indonesian election experience, money politics has been the most
Ridho Al-Hamdi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Are Governments Green Shareholders? The Impact of State Ownership on Environmental Performance at Home and Abroad

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the critical role that state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) can play in the green transition, relatively little is known about governments' environmental behavior as foreign shareholders. This study examines the effect of state ownership on domestic and foreign environmental performance.
Pablo Torres, Germà Bel, Marc Esteve
wiley   +1 more source

Australia's electoral management bodies: degrees of independence

open access: yes, 2007
Australia is at the forefront of professional and independent electoral administration, especially when assessed in international comparative studies.
Norm Kelly
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