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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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QOE-IJES, 2001 La struttura dell'offerta: una variabile decisiva. Il formarsi di coalizioni catch-all. La partecipazione elettorale: meno votanti, più voti di preferenza. La competizione maggioritaria: regioni "sicure"e regioni "marginali".
Aldo Di Virgilio
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa +2 more
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe +2 more
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Anali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva, 2011 The article investigates whether it is possible to combine the advantages of two groups of electoral systems – PR and pluralitarian (or majoritarian) – or not.
Miljenko Antić, Jadranka Vlahovec
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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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Electoral activity of the population of western Ukraine border territory
Journal of Geography, Politics and Society, 2017 The spatial temporal as well as structural and functional analyses of electoral activity were carried out in the paper. Electoral activity of the population was analyzed in terms of indicators of electoral potential, electoral turnout and electoral ...
Oleksandra Vistak , Mariya Myrosh
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks +1 more
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The role of administration in organizing electoral propaganda : A comparative study of Iraq as an example [PDF]
الرافدین للحقوقThe specialization of administrative bodies in organizing electoral propaganda is a fundamental and necessary aspect of ensuring the integrity of the electoral process within democratic systems.
Shaymaa Aziz
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While research has identified a disconnect between the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) and public perceptions of criminal culpability among young people, no study has examined how offender characteristics influence support for reform using an experimental design. To address this, this study presents the first experimental test of
Cameron T. Langfield +3 more
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