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The value of ‘between-election’ political participation: Do parliamentary e-petitions matter to political elites?

open access: yesBritish Journal of Politics & International Relations, 2020
Responding to the crisis of democracy, legislatures worldwide are developing new participatory mechanisms to promote parliamentary engagement and provide additional opportunities for citizens to influence policymaking.
Felicity Matthews
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Durability and change in state gender systems: Ireland in the 1950s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This study of Ireland's gender contract at the end of the 1950s is a country-specific analysis of gender regime change at the level of the state. It is based primarily on Irish parliamentary debates for the years 1957 and 1958, the point at which Ireland
Connolly, Eileen
core   +1 more source

National Disability Insurance Scheme and Quality of Life Among Carers of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Australia: A Thematic Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder in Australia have increased considerably in recent years. The current study investigated how the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) impacts quality of life (QoL) among carers of children with autism spectrum disorder.
Jesse Gerhard, Sharon L. Grant
wiley   +1 more source

How Do Electoral Rules Shape Party Structures, Government Coalitions, and Economic Policies? [PDF]

open access: yes
We present a theoretical model of a parliamentary democracy, where party structures, government coalitions and fiscal policies are endogenously determined.
Gerard Roland   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Asylum support for children and young people living in Kirklees: Stories of mothers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The report is based on a one-year pilot study by academic practitioners at WomenCentre, Kirklees, funded by the Nationwide Children’s Research Centre. This study has taken a localised approach to the Parliamentary Inquiry (2013) into asylum support for ...
Lockwood, Kelly   +2 more
core  

Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Independent Diplomacy of Ichiro Hatoyama

open access: yesЕжегодник Япония, 2022
Joint Declaration by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan has been signed at Moscow in October 1956. The head of the Japanese government at that time Hatayama Ichiro made his best to achieve this result.
S. Markaryan
doaj  

System rządów parlamentarnych na obszarze poradzieckim: casus Mołdawii i Łotwy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The fundamental problem faced by the states that have emerged in the area of the former USSR involved the definition of the desired form of their own political regime.
Fedorowicz, Krzysztof
core   +2 more sources

‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Authorizing parliamentary control in the system of powers separation

open access: yesRussian Journal of Economics and Law, 2014
Objective: to determine the degree of influence of the party system on the powers separation by using analysis of implementation of authorizing parliamentary control in the countries with different governmental forms (presidential, mixed, parliamentary ...
E. V. Kovryakova
doaj  

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