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Types and indices of democratic regimes [PDF]

Today democracy is seen as the only legitimate form of government almost all over the world. That it can be institutionalized differently leads to the question which kind of democracy might be better or worse.
Fuchs, Dieter
core  

Fostering Women's Political Leadership Through Government Accountability: Evidence From OECD Countries

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women remain significantly underrepresented in political leadership worldwide. This study examines how different combinations of government accountability mechanisms enhance women's political representation (WPR) as a pathway to leadership in 30 OECD countries.
Samira Nazar, Seyed Ashkan Zarghami
wiley   +1 more source

Democracy, free speech and TV: the case of the BBC and the ProLife Alliance

, 2004
Freedom of political expression generally receives a very high degree of protection from the courts. Political expression in the UK’s broadcast media, by comparison, receives far lower levels of protection. This has been graphically demonstrated recently
Lewis, T
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Globalizing Comparative Public Administration With Integrative Contextualization: State Autonomy in the Developmental Path of Hong Kong and Singapore

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
wiley   +1 more source

Dancing Outdoors: DiY Ethics and Democratised Practices of Well-Being on the UK Alternative Festival Circuit

Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 2015
Focussing on the UK’s vibrant alternative festival scene, this article examines how traces of the free party movement in the late 1980s continue to pervade the ethos and aesthetic register of contemporary events.
Alice O'Grady
doaj  

Rethinking Gender Representation in Policing: Experimental Insights on Citizen Trust and Cooperation in South Korea

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study extends the literature on symbolic representation by examining how increased female representation affects citizens' attitudes in policy areas that are not typically salient to women. A survey experiment with South Korean citizens tested whether a greater presence of female police leaders overseeing patrol programs affects public ...
Sunyoung Pyo
wiley   +1 more source

From free speech advocates to critics: The Trump administration's new rhetoric promotes support for censorship among Trump voters. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Hall MEK, Leigh BT, Solomon BC.
europepmc   +1 more source

A metatheory of the democratic process [PDF]

The metatheory on the democratic process poses a conceptual framework for the empirical analysis of democratic processes in liberal democracies.
Fuchs, Dieter
core  

Conceptualizing the Street‐Level Bureaucrat Construct

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Differences among street‐level bureaucrats—across professions, institutional settings, regions, and countries—are largely overlooked in research. We propose conceptualizing the street‐level bureaucrat construct as a general variable that varies across institutional settings, professions, cultures, times, and locations. We analyze variations in
Faisal S. Cheema, Euipyo Lee, Rajneesh Gupta, James L. Perry   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Futures of Digital Democracy: Four Scenarios. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Fuchs C, Museba J, Friesch K.
europepmc   +1 more source