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Young people’s trust in institutions, civic knowledge and their dispositions toward civic engagement
Large-scale Assessments in EducationRecent years have witnessed signs of increasing political instability in democratic countries as well as growing alienation from civic institutions and processes among citizens, especially among young people.
Wolfram Schulz
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Housing, Inequality and London
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Regional inequalities are deeply entrenched in the UK. London, and its wider region, is often seen as the beneficiary of these inequalities. The capital houses a disproportionate share of the nation's population and its economic output. But London is also home to higher levels of inequality, poverty and child poverty than anywhere else in the ...
Jack Brown, Joe Fyans
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THE DYNAMICS OF THE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN ROMANIA [PDF]
Revista Română de Sociologie, 2015 The civic engagement is an important element for the consolidation of democracy. This article aims at showing the dynamics of the civic engagement in Romania reflected in three series of data pertaining to the years 1995–1999, 2005–2009, and 2010–2014 ...
VERONICA DUMITRAŞCU
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Economic voting and economic revolutionizing? The economics of incumbency changes in European democracies and revolutionary events in the Arab World [PDF]
While people in democracies can vote their government out when they are discontent with its policies, those in dictatorships cannot do so. They can only attempt to expel the dictator via mass protests or revolutions.
Möller, Marie
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CIVIC LIFE: Evidence Base for the Triennial Review [PDF]
, 2010 This document forms part of the Equality and Human Rights Commission triennial review and covers equalities in civic life. It examines equality in political participation, freedom of language and freedom of worship.
Cutts, D +5 more
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Democratic Alarmism: Coherent Notion or Contradiction in Terms?
Constellations, EarlyView.
James S. Pearson
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What Will it Take for a Woman to Become President of the United States?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we consider what it will take for a woman to be elected President of the United States. We examine the available data from the 2024 election, in comparison to previous elections; we inspect the main findings from the feminist political science of political parties, candidate selection and gendered barriers to elected leadership;
Rosie Campbell, Joni Lovenduski
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The 2013 Election Results: Protest Voting and Political Stalemate
, 2013 The economic crisis, the fall of the Berlusconi’s cabinet in November 2011 and the formation of the technocratic cabinet led by Mario Monti provided the ground for the general elections held in February 2013, which reached a stalemate, contrary to what most observers expected. The center-left coalition won in the Chamber but not in the Senate.
CHIARAMONTE, ALESSANDRO, N. Maggini
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DemocratizationThe answer to the question of why authoritarian regimes adopt internet voting seems simple: Internet voting is yet another upgrade to the authoritarian menu of electoral manipulation by making independent verification of election results almost ...
Fabian Burkhardt, Jan Matti Dollbaum
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Tensions in Young People's Conceptualisation and Practice of Politics [PDF]
Young people have been characterised as apathetic and disengaged from mainstream politics. This discourse draws upon a narrow, regulatory and hegemonic model of politics that centres on parliamentary politics.
Nathan Manning
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