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The Origins of the Human Rights Act: A ‘British Bill of Rights’ the First Time Around

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconstructs the first initiatives for a British Bill of Rights from the late 1960s to the mid‐1980s and argues that their failure shaped the eventual form of the Human Rights Act. Proposals for a Bill of Rights emerged across the political spectrum, but commanded most support on the right as a means of restraining trade unions ...
Marco Duranti, Christopher Hilliard
wiley   +1 more source

Primera consulta popular en Nuevo León: retos y perspectivas

Revista del Instituto Electoral del Estado de México. Apuntes Electorales, 2020
Nuevo León se sumó recientemente al grupo de entidades en las que se ha desarrollado con éxito la consulta popular. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo plantear los retos y las áreas de mejora detectados.
Alfonso Roiz Elizondo, Luigui Villegas Alarcón   +1 more
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El lenguaje como herramienta al servicio del procés soberanista de Cataluña

Mediaciones Sociales, 2016
El proceso separatista puesto en marcha por los sucesivos gobiernos de Cataluña, en particular desde 2010, descansa en parte en un manejo deliberadamente ambiguo del lenguaje.
Alfedo Crespo Alcázar
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Rural but not radical right: The rural‐urban cleavage in Norway

Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Conventional wisdom claims that rural voters are politically mobilized by right‐wing and culturally conservative forces, while urban voters are left‐leaning and have progressive cultural views. Leveraging original survey data from Norway, our work challenges this dichotomy.
Kiran R. Auerbach, Marta R. Eidheim, Anne L. Fimreite   +2 more
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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Moving Toward Universalism? The Future of Long‐Term Care in the United States

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points America's long‐term care system is largely poverty‐based, requiring most older adults to spend down their assets to qualify for limited, Medicaid‐funded support, which is biased toward institutional care and plagued by bureaucratic complexity and enrollment hurdles. There are now, however, some promising changes.
PAMELA HERD
wiley   +1 more source

Mecanismos de Democracia Directa en Jalisco, México: entre la contención, la simulación y la manipulación ciudadana. Cuatro estudios de caso

Telos: Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinarios en Ciencias Sociales, 2018
El presente trabajo analiza la instrumentación de diversos Mecanismos de Democracia Directa (MDD) aplicados en el estado de Jalisco, México. Dichos MDD son el referéndum, el plebiscito y la iniciativa popular, a los que se agrega la revocación de mandato
Rigoberto Soria Romo, Andrea Karina Sánchez Alvarado   +1 more
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Hasta que la ley de divorcio nos separe…

Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, 2010
En 1904, fruto de una noticia aparecida en el Diario Universal sobre la fundación de un “club de matrimonios mal avenidos”, veía la luz El divorcio en España, un libro que recogía por primera vez la opinión de un pequeño pero significativo sector de la ...
Alejandro Sanz Romero
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GOVERNING THE CLOUD: Infrastructural Statecraft and the Political Ecology of Digital Expansion in Oregon

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Oregon's wave of data center and semiconductor projects shows how cloud capitalism reorganizes resource systems and territorial governance. Examining Amazon, Google, and Intel, the article traces how fiscal incentives, utility programs, and land‐use instruments are recalibrated to secure hyperscale loads.
Justin Kollar
wiley   +1 more source

A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
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