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A Comparative Study of the Political Question Doctrine in the Context of Political-System Failures: The United States and the United Kingdom

Milan Law Review, 2021
In 2019, the Supreme Courts of both the United States and the United Kingdom decided cases involving the political question doctrine. In Rucho v. Common Cause, the U.S.
Hayley N. Lawrence
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AI Alignment Versus AI Ethical Treatment: 10 Challenges

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A morally acceptable course of AI development should avoid two dangers: creating unaligned AI systems that pose a threat to humanity and mistreating AI systems that merit moral consideration in their own right. This paper argues these two dangers interact and that if we create AI systems that merit moral consideration, simultaneously avoiding ...
Adam Bradley, Bradford Saad
wiley   +1 more source

How partisan gerrymandering limits voting rights

, 2020
This issue brief examines the only four states where, after the 2018 elections, the party that won a majority of state legislative seats received only a minority of the total statewide vote: North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Tausanovitch, Alex, Root, Danielle
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GEOGRAPHY OF THE NEW ELECTORAL SYSTEM AND CHANGING VOTING PATTERNS IN HUNGARY [PDF]

Acta Geobalcanica, 2015
After nearly half a century of single-party communist dictatorship Hungary returned to a pluralist democratic system in 1989-1990. The electoral system that was designed hastily before the first post-communist elections held in March 1990 remained intact
Zoltán Kovács, György Vida
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Laws and Reasons Why

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Laws play some role in explanations: at the very least, they somehow connect what is explained, or the explanandum, to what explains, or the explanans. Thus, thermodynamical laws connect the match's being struck and its lightning, so that the former causes the latter; and laws about set formation connect Socrates' existence with {Socrates}'s ...
Julio De Rizzo
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Consent, Trust, and Sexual Ethics

Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT No one describes a passionate night using the language of consent. Partners in long‐term relationships rarely think of intimacy in terms of permission. If consent is absent precisely when things go well, why does it dominate sexual ethics? Critics have pressed this challenge but have failed to explain why consent is irrelevant rather than ...
Elise Woodard
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Gerrymandering y votante hispano en Estados Unidos: desafíos para las elecciones intermedias de 2026

Revista Mexicana de Derecho Electoral
El comportamiento electoral de los votantes latinos/hispanos en las elecciones presidenciales de 2020 y 2024 continúa siendo objeto de debate político en los Estados Unidos.
María Isabel Puerta Riera
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Power Unleashed: Theorizing a Weak Ecology of Checks and Balances and Its Consequences. A Case From the Global South

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article theorizes about weak checks and balances (C&B) and its plausible consequences. Drawing on empirical data from over 1100 municipal officials in Mexico, the study examines how executive dominance over three key institutions—the local council, internal comptroller offices, and human resources offices—facilitates consequences ...
Oliver Meza, Elizabeth Pérez‐Chiqués, Aldo Martínez‐Hernandez   +2 more
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Beyond the Border Wars: Representation, Scale, and Multi‐Member Districts

Geographical Analysis, Volume 58, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Proposed redistricting reforms often focus on fixing gerrymandered maps or restructuring elections to boost proportionality. Recent work shows that, averaged across all 50 states, multi‐member districts paired with proportional ranked‐choice voting can deliver near‐proportional outcomes while curbing the gains available to a partisan map ...
Christopher S. Fowler, Linda L. Fowler
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Faktor Kemenangan Partai Barisan Nasional Malaysia dalam Pemilu Selama 60 Tahun (1957-2018)

Perspektif: Jurnal Ilmu-ilmu Sosial, 2020
This research aims to analyze the National Front Party’s (Barisan Nasional) strategies in carrying out their function as a political party in Malaysia. The problem focused on this paper is the victory factors of the Malaysian National Front Party in the ...
Dewi Masitoh
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