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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

All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
wiley   +1 more source

Genderové souvislosti reforem důchodového systému v ČR [PDF]

Gender a Výzkum, 2013
The paper discusses changes that have occurred in the Czech pension system since 1996 in terms of their gender impact. The pension system is considered in a broader socio-economic context.
Radka Dudová
doaj  

Reforming Pension System in Nepal

SSRN Electronic Journal
Purpose: The pension system in Nepal is pivotal for safeguarding social security and financial stability among its aging populace, yet it grapples with substantial hurdles, encompassing demographic transformations, insufficient funding, and operational inefficiencies.
openaire   +1 more source

Editorial Introduction: Pension Reform [PDF]

De Economist, 2022
Casper van Ewijk, Arthur van Soest
openaire   +4 more sources

The Fatalist–Voluntarist Tension: On the Subjective Foundations of Authoritarian Nationalist Neoliberalism

Constellations, EarlyView.
Mirela Ivanova
wiley   +1 more source

Patient Safety and Organisational Accountability: Reassessing Criminal Liability Frameworks in Healthcare

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Serious harm in healthcare often results from systemic failures, yet criminal accountability remains largely addressed through homicide law, gross negligence manslaughter and health‐and‐safety offences, frameworks that emphasise individual culpability and are ill‐suited to addressing organisational failings.
Sarah Bennett, Amel Alghrani
wiley   +1 more source

‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu

History, EarlyView.
Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
wiley   +1 more source

Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
wiley   +1 more source