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Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission

open access: yesAustralian 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
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yes, 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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Strengthening Treaty Understanding: The Role of Education in Building Durable Indigenous–State Agreements

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Education is a central mechanism for ensuring that Indigenous–State treaties are understood, supported and endure through political change. Public knowledge shapes the negotiation, acceptance, implementation and long‐term stability of agreements. In Australia, however, treaty knowledge remains fragmented.
Jacob Prehn, Harry Hobbs, Jessica Horton
wiley   +1 more source

Is democracy promotion effective in Moldova? The impact of European institutions on development of civil and political rights in Moldova [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The main focus of this study is an analysis of the impact on civil and political rights of democracy promotion strategies applied by the three European organizations in Moldova in the 1990s-early 2000s.
McDonagh, Ecaterina
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Dr. Hans Kohn and the political takeover of the Berlin Medical Society by the National Socialist regime in 1933

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract To solidify their power over society, totalitarian regimes will usually eliminate any dissent, any perceived threats early on. These threats include not only political enemies but also educated and independent segments of society, such as professional associations.
Michael Hortsch
wiley   +1 more source

Party-system institutionalization and democracy: the case of Russia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Party-system institutionalization and its implications for democratic consolidation is an important sub-field in the study of political parties. The conventional view is that an institutionalized party system is better for democracy than an under ...
Wilson, K.
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Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In September 2021, following the global COVID‐19 pandemic, the Department for Education introduced a national standardised digital Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) for all English 4‐year‐old children. We analyse RBA and its associated Quality Monitoring Visits, as a further intensification of the new public management of early years ...
Guy Roberts‐Holmes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Transformation of a Turkish Islamic Movement

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2005
Some scholars, such as Graham Fuller, tend to read the current experiment in Turkey as the successful political integration of an Islamic movement into a democracy.1 Several facts support such an interpretation.
M. Hakan Yavuz
doaj  

Political Influence in the System of Regional Election in Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The election of regional in Indonesia has not reached the objectives of the General Election as referred to in the Constitution 1945. This is much influenced by political parties, therefore the issue raised is the political influence in the system of ...
Asmuni, A. (Asmuni)
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Making it explicit – Sustained shared thinking dialogue as a way to explore children's perspectives on quality in German early childhood education and care

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract To negotiate quality in early childhood education and care, we must ask from different perspectives what constitutes a good centre for children. The children themselves have only recently been identified as a resource to contribute to that discussion.
Katrin Macha   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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