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ABSTRACT The recent decriminalization of abortion marked a crucial step toward improved reproductive care on the island of Ireland. However, this has not translated into fully accessible abortion provision—barriers, including inaccessible services, persist, leaving gaps that public administration has not formally addressed. In response, informal actors,
Anna Theresa Schmid
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R/DoctorsUK (Sampling Bias in Action): How English Junior Doctors Pay Referendum Results Compared to Those Predicted on the Doctors UK Reddit. [PDF]
Blenkinsop L.
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Philanthropy for the Disenfranchised
ABSTRACT Philanthropy has an uneasy relationship with democracy. It distributes decision‐making power plutocratically, in proportion to wealth. It allows unelected, unaccountable, and often untrustworthy individuals to shape social outcomes. And it does so in domains where democracy should be authoritative. Yet, at the same time, philanthropy does much
Jacob Barrett
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A Good Society (and how we make it). [PDF]
Pickett KE.
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Epistocracy and the Commitment Problem
ABSTRACT The epistocracy debate has turned largely on the character of the electorate—what voters know, whether competence filters can be designed well, and what filtered selection produces. Another strand has focused on the legitimacy of epistocratic justifications. I ask instead about the equilibrium effects of the institution.
Simon Goldstein
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Now, Again and Again: The Metaphysics of Many Presents
ABSTRACT This paper discusses whether there can be multiple present moments. After presenting some reasons for thinking that the question is worthwhile, I challenge several objections to its possibility: worries about the exclusivity of tense; the nature of change, tense logic and semantics; and the apparent tension between multiple presents and an ...
Nikk Effingham
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Editorial: Migration, ethnicity, race and diversity in a post-Brexit and pandemic Britain. [PDF]
Garner S +3 more
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Bonds on the Ballot: What Voters (Don't) Know About Debt Financing and Why It Matters
Abstract American subnational governments commonly require voters to approve bond proposals, reflecting historical concerns about legislative shortsightedness. Yet voters need an understanding of how bond financing works to make choices consistent with preferences. Existing literature makes it unclear whether voters have such knowledge.
Shanna Pearson‐Merkowitz +3 more
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Staying in a punishing place: online narratives about pregnancy and abortion in pre-liberalisation Ireland. [PDF]
Skelly N.
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