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An examination of labour discrimination in South Africa 2005-2008 : discussion and sensitivity analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Unemployment levels in South Africa are some of the highest in the world. Since the birth of democracy in 1994, the South African government has not only made employment a major focal point, but also the reduction in unemployment inequality. Using probit
Barnett, Luke
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Ações afirmativas e o horizonte normativo da democracia racial (Affirmative actions and the normative horizon of racial democracy) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Este artigo faz uma síntese das percepções intelectuais sobre as relações raciais no Brasil e avalia o impacto das políticas de ação afirmativa ao longo do século em curso.
Delgado, Ignacio José Godinho
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Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Overcoming Racial Harms to Democracy from Artificial Intelligence [PDF]

open access: yes
While the United States is becoming more racially diverse, generative artificial intelligence and related technologies threaten to undermine truly representative democracy.
Overton, Spencer A.
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source

Conference Bibliography: Democracy and the Workplace [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A selected bibliography was prepared in connection with the Saltman Center Labor Law Symposium 2012: Democracy and the Workplace held at the William S.
Wiener-Rogers Law Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
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Challenges of inequality to democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Democracy, as we understand it, is a process of collective decision- making among persons, which issues in collectively binding norms for the society of those persons.
Christiano, T   +52 more
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Special Section on Media Reform | New Beginnings: Racing Histories, Democracy and Media Reform

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2008
Elaborating on some of Edward Said’s key theories on writing, this paper interrogates the historical periodizations that serve to constitute communication and antecedents of media reform.
C. Riley Snorton
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‘Self’ and ‘othering’ as a byproduct of large‐scale assessment: An investigation into the Gaokao retake policy

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract While Gaokao, the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE), has been extensively discussed outside the Chinese academic circle, the retake policy of the test has not received much attention. Moreover, Gaokao research in China has predominantly examined the effectiveness of the retake decision in relation to students' demographic ...
Yifeng Cheng, M. Obaidul Hamid
wiley   +1 more source

Democracy in Islamic and international law: A case study of Saudi Arabia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Following the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, Muslim nations have been placed in the spotlight of international debate; the prevailing understanding is that
Al-Harbi, Ibrahim Sulaiman
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