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Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit.
Muriel Moser
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The Regional Development of Democratization and Civil Society: Transition, Consolidation, Hybridization, Globalization - Taiwan and Hungary [PDF]

, 2018
Different starting points, similar processes and different outcomes can be identified when comparing East Central Europe and East and South Asia. The two regions face similar global challenges, follow regional patterns of democratization and face crises.
Szabó, Máté
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Judicial Review: Substance and Procedure

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
In this article we distinguish two questions about judicial review. First, substance: what acts or decisions are properly subject to the grounds of review? Second, procedure: what acts or decisions are properly reviewable through the judicial review procedure? Then we settle both.
Adam Perry, Angelo Ryu
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China's governance reform from 1978 to 2008 [PDF]

This paper systematically examines the dominant processes and key issues of China's governance reforms over the last 30 years since the start of the reform and opening policies.
Keping, Yu
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Are parties domocratizing themselves? the evolution of leardership selection in Spain (1977-2008) [PDF]

, 2010
The aim of this paper is to verify, for the Spanish case, whether between 1977 and 2008 has increased the internal democracy of the major political parties (PSOE, AP / PP, PCE / IU, PNV and CDC).
Baras i Gómez, Montserrat, Barberà i Aresté, Òscar,, Barrio, Astrid, Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials. Barcelona, Catalunya, Rodríguez Teruel, Juan   +4 more
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“A very orderly retreat”: Democratic transition in East Germany, 1989-90 [PDF]

, 2006
East Germany's 1989-90 democratisation is among the best known of East European transitions, but does not lend itself to comparative analysis, due to the singular way in which political reform and democratic consolidation were subsumed by Germany's ...
Batt Judy, Bauman Zygmunt, Bermeo Nancy, Bermeo Nancy, Blanke Thomas, Cammack Paul, Chemnitz Peter, Cohen Stephen, Dennis Mike, Ekiert Grzegorz, Flam Helena, Flug Martin, Friedheim Daniel, Fulbrook Mary, Gareth Dale, Gerlach Manfred, Gill Graeme, Gutzeit Martin, Harman Chris, Hartung Klaus, Haynes Mike, Hertle Hans-Hermann, Hertle Hans-Hermann, Higley John, Husan Rumy, Ishiyama John, Joppke Christian, Klein Olaf Georg, Knauer Gerd, Kopstein Jeffrey, Krenz Egon, Kuhn Ekkehard, Kuppe Johannes, Land Rainer,, Lane David, Lane David, Lawson George, Lohmar Henry, Maier Charles, Mainwaring Scott, Mainwaring Scott, Markovits Inga, McSweeney Dean, Meinel Reinhard, Menge Marlies, Mittag Günter, Mitter Armin,, Mosler Volkhard, Munck Gerardo,, Nagle John, Neues Forum, Nitz Jürgen, O’Donnell Guillermo, Pechmann Roland, Peterson Edward, Philipsen Dirk, Przybylski Peter, Richter Michael, Richter Michael, Roesler Jörg, Roesler Jörg, Rucht Dieter, Rutland Peter, Rüddenklau Wolfgang, Sanford George, Schabowski Günter, Schlegelmilch Cordia, Schneider Peter, Schürer Gerhard, Selbourne David, Stephan Gerd-Rüdiger, Teltschik Horst, Thompson Mark, Timmer Karsten, Valenzuela J. Samuel, Villain Jean, Von Beyme Klaus, Von Plato, Von Plato Alexander, Welsh Helga, Wilkening Christina, Yoder Jennifer, Zimmermann Brigitte   +82 more
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
wiley   +1 more source

SUBSTITUTING FOR THE STATE: The Sovereignty Impacts of Diverse Citizens’ Off‐grid Infrastructure Strategies in South Africa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In South Africa, citizens in both low‐ and high‐income areas are increasingly providing their own services to mitigate the unreliability, unaffordability and inaccessibility of state services. This article examines diverse case studies across socio‐economic and residential typologies to explore shifts in service provision responsibilities from
Fiona Anciano, Charlotte Lemanski, Christina Culwick Fatti, Margot Rubin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The crisis of party democracy, cognitive mobilization, and the case for making parties more deliberative [PDF]

, 2017
The much-discussed crisis of political parties poses a challenge to democratic theorists as institutional designers: how can the capacity of parties to mediate between society and state be resuscitated?
Anderson, Bartolini, Beck, CARLO INVERNIZZI-ACCETTI, Carty, Cohen, Cohen, Crouch, Daalder, Dalton, Dalton, Delwit, Dryzek, Dryzek, Duverger, Epstein, FABIO WOLKENSTEIN, Fishkin, Fukuyama, Giddens, Graber, Habermas, Hay, Held, Katz, Katz, Kirchheimer, Krouwel, Kölln, Larana, Lipset, Mair, Mair, Mair, Mansbridge, Mayer, Michels, Miller, Mudde, Muirhead, Müller, Olson, Panebianco, Papadopoulos, Pitkin, Piven, Pizzorno, Posner, Price, Putnam, Rosenblum, Salamon, Sartori, Scarrow, Schattschneider, Seyd, Teixeira, Tocqueville, Urbinati, Urbinati, van Biezen, van Haute, Van Holsteyn, Verba, Whiteley, Wilson, Wright   +66 more
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SCORING HIGH, PAYING UP, GATING IN: Middle‐class Formation and Asset Inequalities under Digital Capitalism in South Africa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how modern class dynamics become intertwined with automated classifications and data‐driven regimes of value creation under digital capitalism by demonstrating how housing markets shape asset inequalities and middle‐class formation in South Africa.
Julien Migozzi
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