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From the Local to the Global: Learning About the Adverse Human Rights Effects of Climate Policies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In this paper, I elaborate how transnational advocacy networks (TANs) use local experiences and knowledge to teach climate negotiators about the adverse human rights effects of climate policies.
Schapper, Andrea
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Political Activism in Canada: When Tibetans in Toronto Enter into Local Politics

open access: yesSouth Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2022
This article investigates the political mobilization of Tibetans in Toronto. I develop the hypothesis that Tibetans in Toronto who enter into local politics are already politicized, which facilitates the transition from activism within the Tibetan ...
Anne-Sophie Bentz
doaj   +1 more source

Localisation of Politics and Local Electoral Participation

open access: yes, 2022
Nationalisation of politics generally decreased the voter participation at municipal elections by lowering their salience, but the variation in nationalisation has been underestimated.
Kukec, Marko
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Disorientasi Politik dan Peran Intermediary Kelas Menengah To Pulo: Politik Lokal di Kepulauan Selayar Pasca Orde Baru

open access: yesJSP: Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik, 2016
This paper discusses the emergence of social movements To Pulo with the issue of a new government and the development of the New Order. Today, the issue is increasingly disappearing in local political discourse in Kepulauan Selayar.
Abu Bakar
doaj   +1 more source

Arène de l’orpaillage : acteurs et enjeux des centrales d’achat d’or de Kadiolo, au Mali

open access: yesRevue Internationale des Études du Développement, 2022
For more than a decade, the Kadiolo gold deposits in the Sikasso region have drawn many local and migrant gold miners of various nationalities. In this context of human influx and pressure on resources, the idea of gold group purchasing organizations has
N’gna Traoré
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Chapter 10: Gender and representation in local politics

open access: yes, 2023
The increased importance of local governance in relation to the provision of welfare services and citizen participation in democratic decision-making has thrust the difference between men's and women's access to positions of authority and power at the ...
Hlynsdóttir, Eva Marín
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Research on online public opinion dissemination and emergency countermeasures of food safety in universities—take the rat head and duck neck incident in China as an example

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
In recent years, food safety accidents have occurred frequently in colleges and universities, and students are prone to emotional resonance with food safety.
Jinsi Liu   +6 more
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From Margin to Mainstream: Informal Street Vendors and Local Politics in Kolkata, India

open access: yesL'Espace Politique, 2016
Informed by the ‘right to the city’ literature a large body of research on urban transformation in India and other developing countries had shown how Global city aspirations of the urban elites have increasingly come about through commoditisation of ...
Tathagata Chatterji, Souvanic Roy
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THE LOCAL POLITICS OF ORTHODOXY: The Majelis Ulama Indonesia in the Post-New Order Banten

open access: yesJournal of Indonesian Islam, 2012
The Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) has played an important role in guarding the Sunni orthodoxy in contemporary Indonesia. As it has chapters in almost parts of Indonesia in the provincial, district and municipality level, this role has been also ...
Moch. Nur Ichwan
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Why has Participatory Budgeting Declined in Brazil?

open access: yesBrazilian Political Science Review, 2022
Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic policy innovation created in Brazil in the early 1990s, recognized worldwide as an effective policy tool for directly involving the population in budget decisions.
Carla de Paiva Bezerra   +1 more
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