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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
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Abstract This chapter focuses on electoral systems. It explains how an electoral system reflects the designers’ self-interest in many ways. The choice of precise rules and features indicates the extent to which designers of electoral systems prioritize the participation of various minority groups in elected offices and wish to see ...
L. Sandy Maisel, Jennifer A. Yoder
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It's parties that choose electoral systems (or Duverger's Law upside down) [PDF]
This article presents, discusses and tests the hypothesis that it is the number of parties what can explain the choice of electoral systems, rather than the other way round. Already existing political parties tend to choose electoral systems that, rather
Josep M. Colomer
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Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
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Career Choice and Legislative Reelection: Evidence from Brazil and Colombia
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2007 This paper explores the differences and similarities between the electoral systems in Brazil and Colombia and how it affects Brazilian incumbent Federal Deputies’ and Colombian Diputados’ political career choices and electoral suc- cess.
Felipe Botero, Lucio Rennó
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Direct enrolment and direct update: the Australian experience [PDF]
, 2012 Australia has required all eligible electors to enrol (register) to vote now for one hundred years. In recent years, however, changing demographic patterns and citizen mobility have made it increasingly challenging to maintain the accuracy and currency ...
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‘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
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Designing Democratic Constitutions: The Search for Optimality
Politics and Governance, 2019 This article analyses salient trade-offs in the design of democracy. It grounds this analysis in a distinction between two basic models of democracy: simple and complex majoritarianism.
Steffen Ganghof
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ELECTORAL SYSTEMS, POVERTY AND INCOME INEQUALITY [PDF]
In this article we use the high-quality data coming from the Luxembourg Income Study Project, in a panel framework, to test for the effects of electoral systems on both poverty and income Inequality.
Vincenzo Verardi
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British 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
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