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How democratic are the UK’s political parties and party system? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
As part of the 2017 Audit of UK Democracy, Sean Kippin, Patrick Dunleavy and the DA team examine how democratic the UK’s party system and political parties are.
Dunleavy, Patrick, Kippin, Sean
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Implementation of Youth Empowerment Services (YES) juvenile justice diversion program: A first‐person account

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Santa Barbara County, the Youth Empowerment Services (YES) Program brought together several government and community‐based organizations, as well as a university‐based evaluation team, to provide pre‐adjudication diversion to youth ages 12 to 17.
Angela Pollard   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anti-Neoliberal Neoliberalism: Post-Socialism and Bulgaria’s “Ataka” Party

open access: yestripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2015
The last elections (2014) for European Union deputies once again confirmed the popularity of far-right parties. Despite scholarly attention, racism and xenophobia in the easternmost part of the EU, remain relatively unexplored.
Martin Marinos
doaj   +1 more source

B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Populism and Technocracy: Pillars of Postwar Representative Democracy in Europe

open access: yesPerspective Politice
The established representative democracy in Europe is facing growing challenges. In a rapidly evolving landscape that resolves some crises while encountering new ones, two movements – populism and technocracy – are emerging as alternatives to the ...
Rareș-Bogdan ROȘULESCU
doaj   +1 more source

Las fugas de la democracia. Análisis económico del derecho sobre las normas de transfuguismo político en Colombia (2003- 2011)

open access: yesColombia Internacional, 2015
The article presents an economic analysis of the rules regulating changes of political party affiliation in Colombia. In developing a basic analysis of incentives, the authors conclude that double electoral militancy is a direct, predictable result of ...
Lina Fernanda Buchely Ibarra   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Privatizing education: free school policy in Sweden and England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The aim of this article is to investigate why Sweden, the epitome of social democracy, has implemented education reforms leading to an extraordinary growth in Free Schools in contrast to liberal England, where Free School policy has been met with ...
Wiborg, S
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Border harm and affective injustice: The politics of anger at the Melilla border, Spain

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines protests in a detention center in Melilla, Spain—a site where structural violence intersects with the everyday harms of confinement. Adopting a justice and dignity‐centered perspective, we analyze grassroots forms of resistance emerging at the border. The study focuses on the protests of Tunisian migrants and explores the
Corina Tulbure
wiley   +1 more source

The parties on the political scene of Poland in the interwar period, 1918-1939 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The article contains a brief overview of the main political parties of the Second Republic of Poland. It outlines the genesis of the most important groups operating in each of the partitions, showing the impact of the political activity of Poles in the ...
Sokołowski, Jacek
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Economic crisis in a stalemated democracy. The Italian case [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In Southern Europe, the economic crisis (2008-2013) triggered a deeper political crisis, affecting a number of aspects of a representative democracy. Italy provides a particularly telling case of what happens when an economic crisis occurs in an unstable
Morlino, Leonardo, Piana, Daniela
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