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Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India
American Journal of Political ScienceWhat drives the career advancement of female politicians in opaque selection environments where party activists hold sway? I argue that women's higher presence in local politics not only improves party elite responsiveness to greater talent supply (top ...
Tanushree Goyal
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Local Government Studies, 2019 Local policy-makers’ incentives to address an issue is conditioned by how they perceive public attention. Our study focuses on drinking water management at the municipal level in Sweden.
Anna Bendz, Å. Boholm
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Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies
Swiss 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
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Swiss 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
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Political Gender Stereotypes in Parallel: Are Elites or Citizens More Prejudiced?
Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.Abstract Research shows that many voters ascribe stereotypical traits and issue competences to male and female politicians – such as viewing women as more compassionate and honest, and men as more competent and decisive – and use these perceptions when evaluating candidates.
Nathalie Giger, Anke Tresch
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Local values in local political culture and democracy; A review of hermeneutics among local elites
Technium 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
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 412-433, June 2026.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Latin 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
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Las ampliaciones modernas en los regadíos históricos. Jovedat y Extremal de la Real Acequia de Moncada [PDF]
, 2016 [EN] We propose, based on the case study "the irrigation of the Royal Acequia of Moncada" the most important one of the "huertas" surrounding Valencia, to focus on: the process of growth in irrigated area over time, the use of water resources and the ...
Sales Martínez, Vicente
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Local political space: Localism, the left-right dimension and anti-elitism
Party 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 quantitative
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