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Social SciencesElectoral abstention is a growing phenomenon in contemporary democracies, raising concerns about the representativeness and legitimacy of elected governments, particularly in Portugal where youth participation remains low.
Nuno Almeida, Jean-Christophe Giger
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“Right Drift” in Latin America: Causes, Outcomes, and Prospects
Латиноамериканский исторический альманах, 2022 After the "golden decade" (2003 - 2013) in Latin America came the pe-riod of economic stagnation and the deterioration of the social situa-tion, aggravated by the pandemic.
Zbigniew W. Iwanowski
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Political Science Research and Methods, 2019 What attracts voters to far-right parties? Emphasizing the repercussions of far-right parties' past achievements on the mobilization of voters' electoral demand, this paper develops an argument of context-dependent strategic far-right voting.
D. Cohen
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Democracy, Race, and Multiculturalism in the Twenty-First Century: Will the Voting Rights Act Ever be Obsolete? [PDF]
, 2006 Part I of this essay begins one hundred years before the passage of the Act, with Reconstruction. I briefly canvas the interracial alliances of the Reconstruction and Redemption periods, underscoring that American democracy has been most responsive to ...
Cashin, Sheryll
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Recent years have seen a growing scholarly interest in youth activism (YA), a phenomenon often viewed as a positive development in response to declining civic and political engagement among young people. However, most of the research focuses on the activists themselves and gives less attention to how YA is perceived by the broader youth ...
Martyna Elerian +2 more
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Sample Selection Model for Protest Votes in Contingent Valuation Analyses [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000 Observations with protest votes in contingent valuation surveys could result in biased estimates of the willingness to pay measure, if treated as expressions of genuine indifference to public good or simply removed from the analysis. We propose an elicitation design and a sample selection model that allow correction of the possible bias due to protest ...
Calia, Pinuccia, Strazzera, Elisabetta
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New Media and Youth Political Action [PDF]
, 2012 To rigorously consider the impact of new media on the political and civic behavior of young people, The MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics (YPP) developed and fielded one of the first large-scale, nationally representative ...
Benjamin Bowyer +4 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
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The Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility Internationally—History, Systems and the Future
Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background In most countries, a criminal conviction requires evidence that the individual committed the act and that they had the mental capacity to understand what they were doing and that it was wrong. Youth, as an indicator of brain development, is one factor affecting criminal capacity.
Enys Delmage +18 more
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Dinamica regională a opțiunilor politice 1996-2000
Sociologie Românească, 2000 Is voting behavior depending on geography? What can we learn from the last elections as compared with 1996? By studying changes of voting profile on regions we can disclose hidden significances of political options. For instance why voting PRM in 2000 is
Sebastian Lăzăroiu
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