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The Right to Stand and the Democratic Value of Elections
Constellations, EarlyView.
Annabelle Lever
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Guardians Under Siege: Civil Society Access and Reform of the UN Human Rights Council
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how restrictions on civil society participation at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) undermine the institution's effectiveness. Through stakeholder interviews and analysis of recent developments, we show that civil society engagement does not merely fulfil a democratic aspiration, but it is an operational ...
Inés M. Pousadela, Samuel King
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Does Confidential Proxy Voting Matter? [PDF]
Confidential voting in corporate proxies is a principal recommendation in activist institutional investors' guidelines for corporate governance reforms. This paper examines the impact of the adoption of confidential voting on proposal outcomes through a ...
Roberta Romano
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The Royal Commission on the Constitution, 1927–1929
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Royal Commission on the Constitution (1927–1929) is a little‐remembered event in Australian political, policy and legal history, which produced—in the words of the constitutional law scholar Geoffrey Sawer—‘a useful student's textbook and a minor alteration in the Judiciary Act’.
Carolyn Holbrook
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Why and when do cities vote for the left? The emergence of the urban–rural divide in the United States in the 1930s is inconsistent with canonical theories of cleavages. This paper introduces an explanation: agglomeration effects. The provision of government services is more efficient in urban environments because of nonrivalries, economies of
Theo Serlin
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Is support for authoritarian rule contagious? Evidence from field and survey experiments
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract The increasing popularity of strongman rule in democratic societies underscores the need to explore how authoritarian regime preferences might spread socially. We assess the role of social influence on support for leaders with authoritarian inclinations through preregistered field and survey experiments in the Norwegian Armed Forces. The field
Sirianne Dahlum +4 more
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Voting Rights and Community Involvement: Improving our Voting Systems
, 2019 Poster for a discussion on Michigan voting systems.https://repository.law.umich.edu/posters/1775/thumbnail ...
Michigan Voting Project
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Radar‐Based Deep Learning for Debris Flow Identification Amid the Environmental Disturbances
Geophysical Research LettersMicrowave radar, utilizing the differences in Doppler frequencies from moving target echoes, offers remote sensing capabilities and continuous all‐weather monitoring for geological disasters.
Shuang Liu +5 more
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Endogenous coalition formation in policy debates
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Political actors form coalitions around their joint normative beliefs in order to influence the policy process on contentious issues such as climate change or population aging. Policy process theory maintains that learning within and across coalitions is a central predictor of policy change but has yet to explain how policy learning works ...
Philip Leifeld, Laurence Brandenberger
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How security problems can compromise remote Internet voting systems
, 2004 Remote Internet voting systems still suffer from many security problems which rely on the clients, the servers, and the network connections. Denial-ofservice attacks and viruses still belong to the most challenging security issues.
Schryen, Guido
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