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Politicians’ Motivation, Political Culture, and Electoral Competition [PDF]
We study electoral competition among politicians who are heterogeneous both in competence and in how much they care about (what they perceive as) the public interest relative to the private rents from being in office. We show that politicians’ incentives
Klaas J. Beniers, Robert Dur
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.Abstract Aboriginal culture is both a strength and a protective factor for Aboriginal children; yet, we continue to see disparities in education, health and well‐being outcomes. To improve outcomes for Aboriginal children and families, local cultural ways of knowing, being and doing need to be incorporated into policy and practice.
Michelle Jones +5 more
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Politics of evidence: Think tanks and the Academies Act
British Educational Research Journal, Volume 48, Issue 6, Page 1232-1253, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Previous research has identified political ideology as central in the landmark Academies Act (2010). This article further analyses how politics of evidence played its part in the policy process by focusing on long‐term structural changes and preferences among policymakers. The article draws on policymaker interviews after the reform, a mapping
Jaakko Kauko
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Transforming Masculinist Political Cultures? Doing Politics in New Political Institutions [PDF]
In the devolved legislative assemblies of Scotland and Wales the proportion of women representatives is approaching parity. This is in marked contrast to Westminster where one in five MPs are women.
Charlotte Aull Davies +2 more
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Was the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission an act of dispossession?
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.Abstract The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) has been described as one of the most comprehensive regional and national governance structures for Indigenous people in Australia. This paper looks briefly at its operational life between 1990 and 2005 and focusses on its abolition, arguing that this was an act of dispossession. The
Tui Crumpen
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When Politicians Talk: Assessing Online Conversational Practices of Political Parties on Twitter [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 Assessing political conversations in social media requires a deeper understanding of the underlying practices and styles that drive these conversations. In this paper, we present a computational approach for assessing online conversational practices of political parties. Following a deductive approach, we devise a number of quantitative measures from a
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The Political Culture of Authoritarianism in Mexico: A Reexamination [PDF]
, 1984 John A. Booth, Mitchell A. Seligson
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Critique [of Institutional Racism] [PDF]
, 1982 Vine Deloria’s incisive analysis of institutional racism in western culture applies equally well to the related problem of institutional sexism. Both women, and minorities especially individual members of minority racial groups who are immediately ...
Hickok, Kathleen
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.Abstract Living in residential aged care (RAC) can have deleterious effects on the health, well‐being and social participation of younger people (<65 years of age). This research examined the barriers and enablers to leaving or avoiding RAC for Australian younger people who are not National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants. It reports on
Barrie Shannon +3 more
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The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Way of Solving Quintuple Crises with a Democratic Mechanism [PDF]
Journal of Islamic Political Studies, 2019 Reza Isania
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