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Pactos electorales y proporcionalidad de la representación. Evidencia del caso de Chile, 2017
Colombia Internacional, 2020 Objective/context: This article analyzes the effects of the Chilean electoral reform on proportionality, focusing mainly on electoral pacts. Methodology: The research uses data of the election of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies of 2017, in order to ...
Ricardo Gamboa, Mauricio Morales
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Electoral Reform in Italy and Japan: Unanticipated Outcomes?
, 2011 In this paper, we examine the effects of electoral system reform in Italy and Japan, trying to assess whether and to what extent these outcomes – that is, the lack of change in certain key areas of party politics – were in fact “unintended ...
E. Scheiner +3 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 2023 Australian Voice to Parliament Referendum presented a pivotal moment in the nation's democratic landscape. Despite support for Indigenous well‐being, the referendum did not secure the necessary approval, prompting extensive analysis of its outcome.
Scott Baum, William Mitchell
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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
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Reconceptualising Electoral Reform [PDF]
West European Politics, 2011 This article delineates the three waves of development in the study of electoral reform: the systematic description and consequences of electoral systems; the analysis of major reform and its political consequences; and a more comprehensive approach to the study of electoral reform. It seeks to achieve two goals.
Leyenaar, M.H., Hazan, R.Y.
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Electoral Reform Under Limited Party Competition: The Adoption of Proportional Representation in Latin America [PDF]
, 2018 The adoption of proportional representation in Western Europe has been portrayed as either a defensive or an offensive competition strategy used by established parties to deal with the rise of new parties under majoritarian electoral rules.
Negretto, Gabriel Leonardo +3 more
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‘Supercharging’ the Economy: Representations of Youth Unemployment and Welfare During COVID‐19
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The global COVID‐19 pandemic (2020–2022) created profound social policy challenges. In Australia, business closures and rising unemployment prompted a Coalition government to introduce unprecedented income support measures aimed at preventing an economic crisis and softening the financial impacts on citizens.
Sonia Martin, Simone Casey
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Political ObserverThis article examines the possibility of adopting a single-member district electoral system (first-past-the-post) in Mozambique, a context marked by structural poverty, low levels of (political) literacy, territorial discrepancies, and persistent ...
Bitone Viage
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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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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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