Results 171 to 180 of about 3,882 (261)

Dirichlet-Swing: understanding spatio-temporal aspects of political elections in heterogeneous societies through agent-based simulation. [PDF]

PLoS One
Mitra A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Why Compulsory Voting is Not the Answer

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Electoral turnout in the UK is low and uneven. This has led to renewed interest in compulsory voting, which has been advocated in recent reports from The Constitution Society, Labour Together, and the Institute for Public Policy Research. This article offers a critical perspective on these proposals.
Ben Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

The Norwegian Parliamentary Debates Dataset. [PDF]

Sci Data
Fiva JH, Nedregård O, Øien H.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Perils of Proportional Representation for Ethnic Minorities

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Two arguments about ethnic minorities run through the debate over replacing first past the post. One promises that proportional representation would represent minorities better; the other worries that it would empower the parties they have most reason to fear. This article argues that the promise is unreliable and the worry real.
Tarunabh Khaitan
wiley   +1 more source

The Preference-Expectation Gap in Support for Female Candidates: Evidence from Japan. [PDF]

Public Opin Q
Kato G, Lu F, Endo M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
wiley   +1 more source

This is 'offside': Gambling advertising during Czech football broadcasts. [PDF]

J Behav Addict
Kovařík F, Fiedor D, Sharman S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Self-serving biases shape the relationship between future thinking and remembering of elections. [PDF]

Commun Psychol
Boeltzig M, Schubotz RI, Cole S, Rathbone CJ.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
wiley   +1 more source