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Voter Experiences during Bougainville’s 2019 Independence Referendum [PDF]

, 2020
This In Brief sets out the results of the independence referendum in Bougainville, held between 23 November and 7 December 2019, and presents the findings of research undertaken on a range of administrative irregularities and problems that affected voter
Kolova, Steven
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The Effects of Monetary Policy in the United Kingdom: New Evidence From SONIA Market Responses

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper constructs a new measure of the UK monetary policy instrument (MPI) using daily changes in the sterling overnight index average (SONIA) around Bank of England policy events from June 1997 to August 2025. The instrument explicitly accounts for pre‐event information and unconventional monetary policy (UMP) using lagged macro‐financial
Ayobami E. Ilori, Lucia M. Murgia
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Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia

Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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Delisting the Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf from the US Endangered Species Act: an assessment of political discourse over 20 years

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Feared, revered, and politicized, wolves have long captured human imagination, and ignited fierce conservation conflicts. In the United States, the Endangered Species Act protects species at risk of extinction from human impacts. This far‐reaching legislation, which impacts development and state‐level wildlife management, has been fraught with legal ...
Iree Wheeler, Paisley Blair, Noah Creany, Hannah Manire, Daniel Morris, Sofia Mollett, Steelle S. Scearce, Temple Stoellinger, Janna R. Willoughby, Kelly H. Dunning   +9 more
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The Tax‐Equivalent Effect of Information: Evidence From an Incentivised Laboratory Experiment on Sugary Drinks

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Interventions to reduce consumption of sugar‐sweetened beverages have been a popular topic of research in agricultural economics and food policy in recent years. While most empirical attention has focused on excise taxation and quasi‐experimental evaluation of implemented taxes, less is known about the magnitude of behavioural responses to ...
John Gibson, Steven Tucker, Geua Boe‐Gibson   +2 more
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Scotland’s twin referendums: revealing regional divides behind national votes

Regional Studies, Regional Science
Scotland’s 2014 independence referendum and the 2016 EU referendum are often interpreted as politically aligned at the national scale, reinforcing a simplified narrative of a strongly pro-independence, pro-EU portion of the Scottish electorate.
Craig Stewart, Xinyi Yuan, Mingshu Wang
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Constitutional Judges and Secession. Lessons from Canada … twenty years later

Perspectives on Federalism, 2017
In constitutional theory, the referendum is an instrument that allows for the expression of the popular will in government decisions and through which people are asked to vote directly on an issue or policy. Over the last decades, the referendum has been
Spigno Irene
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Relationship: Orientation, politics, ethics, and the idea and practice of self‐determination

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract First Nations people deeply value relational modes of organising politics, governance, and social order that do not feature in European‐derived political ordering or in dominant governance and policy scholarship. While Indigenous peoples have long sought equitable and respectful relationships in the context of forced colonial engagement, the ...
Lindy Andrén, Morgan Brigg, Shane Hoffman, Anya Thomas   +3 more
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Our five most read articles on the Catalan independence referendum [PDF]

, 2017
With the planned Catalan independence referendum intended to be held today (1 October), this is a list of our five most read articles on the ...
Lapuente, Victor, Senserrich, Roger, Balfour, Sebastian, Borrell Porta, Mireia   +3 more
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Voting on Independence and National Issues: A Historical and Comparative Study of Referendums on Self-Determination and Secession

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015
To date there have been fifty independence referendums. Some have been official, others unofficial. Some have been successful, and others have ended in failure.
Matt Qvortrup
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