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Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Emergent critique of consociations has focused on how micro‐minority ‘others’ are frequently excluded from the opportunities presented by power‐sharing systems, with dominant elites shutting them out. Therefore, a key question is: how do the political elites of micro‐minorities gain more meaningful inclusion by adopting or navigating the ...
Aleksandra Zdeb, Drew Mikhael
wiley   +1 more source

Local values in local political culture and democracy; A review of hermeneutics among local elites

open access: yesTechnium Social Sciences Journal, 2023
The reforms provided space for local elites, both traditionally based (Bangsawan) and political elites (Bureaucrats-Politicians) to contest in the arena of local democracy. It is in this arena that the value of the political culture of local elites is tested whether it can strengthen democracy or on the contrary weaken democracy in the midst of the ...
Fatah, Rahmat Abd.   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

L'Univers de la política en la Catalunya de la Restauració : Manresa, 1875-1923 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Aquest article pretén tractar una problemàtica escassament analitzada en la historiografia catalana: la lenta transició del liberalisme a la democràcia. Aquest fenomen s'analitza a través d'un estudi de cas, l'univers polític de la ciutat de Manresa, que
Rubí i Casals, Maria Gemma
core   +2 more sources

Do Voters and Candidates Share the Same Views on Democracy? Support for and Satisfaction with Democracy in Switzerland

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The perceived “crisis of democracy” has received much attention in recent scholarly and societal debates. Yet much of the focus has been on democratic attitudes of citizens. We only know little about the democracy orientations of political candidates, and whether voter and candidate views on democracy are congruent.
Annika Lindholm, Lukas Lauener
wiley   +1 more source

L'Univers de la política en la Catalunya de la Restauració : Manresa, 1875-1923 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Aquest article pretén tractar una problemàtica escassament analitzada en la historiografia catalana: la lenta transició del liberalisme a la democràcia. Aquest fenomen s'analitza a través d'un estudi de cas, l'univers polític de la ciutat de Manresa, que
Rubí Casals, Gemma
core  

Video Assistant Referee(ndums): A Populist Weapon or Effective Tool to Stop Autocrats in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America?

open access: yesLatin American Policy, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT In recent years, video assistant referee systems have been increasingly used to correct unfair decisions in sports. Similarly, I argue that constitutional referendums play a corrective role in hybrid or competitive authoritarian regimes, where the electoral referee is biased and the government enjoys unfair advantages.
Muhammet Derviş Mete
wiley   +1 more source

Leadership in Scholarship: Editors' Appointments and Scientific Narrative

open access: yesScottish Journal of Political Economy, Volume 72, Issue 3, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Academic journals disseminate new knowledge and therefore can influence the direction and composition of ongoing research by choosing what to publish. We study the change in the topic structure of papers published in the American Economic Review (AER) after the appointments of editors and coeditors of the AER between 1985 and 2011 using a ...
Ali Sina Önder   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local political space: Localism, the left-right dimension and anti-elitism

open access: yesParty Politics, 2023
This paper presents a three-dimensional approach to party political conflict at the local level, drawing from an anti-elitism dimension, the left-right dimension and a localism dimension. More than 4500 parties participating in the 2014 and 2018 Dutch municipal elections are placed on these dimensions on the basis of their manifestos using ...
openaire   +1 more source

Oligarchy and Elite Politics in The 2020 Local Election: Short Review

open access: yesJournal of Political Issues, 2023
This article analyzes the political practices of oligarchy and elite politics in the context of the 2020 local elections in Indonesia. Despite the high number of Covid-19 cases, Indonesia continued to hold simultaneous local elections, making the regional elections even more controversial.
Dodi Faedlulloh   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

‘Staging’ divinatory economic performances: Comparing startup and MLM cryptocurrency projects « Mise en scène » de performances économiques divinatoires : comparaison de projets de cryptomonnaies de startups et de réseaux de vente multiniveau

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 565-583, June 2025.
This article offers ‘stages’, an original device, to sharpen the focus on a particular divinatory economic performance: the folding of imagined profitable futures into the present to create the impression that profitable futures are imminent or already realized.
Yathukulan Yogarajah
wiley   +1 more source

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