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Turnout and Invalid Voting in Brazilian Municipal Elections: A Runoff Voting System Tale
ABSTRACT This paper assesses the impact of Brazil's hybrid mayoral voting system on voters' choices and examines the shift in blank, null, and turnout between the first and second rounds. Using fixed‐effects and RDD techniques over 5570 municipalities between 2000 and 2020, this study shows that runoff voting generates more abstention and invalid ...
Vítor Castro +2 more
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Nationalism in an Overheating World: An Introduction to Thomas Hylland Eriksen's Life and Works
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
Daniele Conversi
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Beyond Groups? Consociational Culture and the Representation of Cross‐Segmental Interests
Abstract In deeply divided societies, consociational power‐sharing ensures representation for ethnonational groups but raises questions about cross‐segmental interests. This paper explores “consociational culture,” arguing that consociational systems create a form of political culture which incentivises the use of group‐based categories and identities ...
Patrizia John
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Winds of Change 1989: A Perspective from an Office for Religious Affairs Somewhere in Eastern Europe
Under communism, in what used to be Eastern Europe, religion was neither outlawed nor favorably regarded either. In some cases, church and state had been at latent or open war as in Poland or in the former Yugoslavia.
Perica, Vjekoslav
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Shifting conceptions of social (in)justice in Nepal [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to analyse and situate the changing discourses of social (in)justice in the context of political transition and restructuring process that Nepal has gone through since 2006.
Satyal, Poshendra
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Integration as a Precondition for Enfranchisement? Swiss Public Opinion on Noncitizen Voting Rights
Abstract In recent decades, as growing numbers of noncitizen residents remain excluded from the electorate, the question of who should be included in the electorate has gained prominence in both political and academic debates. Drawing on theories of integration and immigrant attitudes, I explore whether Swiss voters would consider integration criteria ...
Alyssa M. Taylor
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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
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Student Ethnic Diversity Management in Ethiopian Universities: Practices, Challenges, and Way Forward. [PDF]
Adamu AY.
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Abstract Research on democratic backsliding and on EU counter‐actions is growing rapidly, but we have only begun to understand how EU actions are taken up in domestic political debates in backsliding member states. Our research builds on the assumption that the framing of these debates contributes to the (de‐)legitimation of EU actions and thus has ...
Michael Blauberger, Arndt Wonka
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Suaahara, relative to comparison areas, reduced maternal underweight and improved complementary feeding practices with children 6–23.9 months of age, increasing the percentages of children having minimum dietary diversity, minimum meal frequency and minimum acceptable diet; feeding sick child more and administering oral rehydration solution and zinc ...
Edward A. Frongillo +10 more
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