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Voter Access under Mandatory Voter ID: The Promise and Limits of the Voter Authority Certificate
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The Elections Act 2022 introduced mandatory photographic voter identification in UK general elections and English devolved elections, marking a decisive shift toward a universal requirement for in‐person voting. To mitigate access barriers in the absence of a national identity system, it also provided for the introduction of a new Voter ...
Petra Schleiter
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The Legalist Paradigm in Moral and Political Thought
Constellations, EarlyView.
Jamie Mayerfeld
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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
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Liquid Assemblies: An Institutional Design for Liquid Democracy
Constellations, EarlyView.
Chiara Valsangiacomo Balmelli +1 more
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John Gray: ‘Americanism’ and the Perversion of Post‐liberalism
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article will make the case for John Gray's inclusion in the canon of post‐liberals despite his protests to the contrary, and will argue that his peculiar post‐liberalism is important for its challenges to the dominance of liberalism as both a political culture and way of theorising the ends of politics based on the model of the American ...
Paul Kelly
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The Right to Stand and the Democratic Value of Elections
Constellations, EarlyView.
Annabelle Lever
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German Coalition Politics: Between Pluralist Stagnation and Crisis‐Driven Welfare Retrenchment
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The current German coalition government of the centre‐right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the centre‐left Social Democrats (SPD) has spent its first year in office preparing for a major round of welfare state retrenchment. However, the coalition lacks a coherent political project.
Jörg Michael Dostal
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Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.Abstract We analyze challenges and adaptation strategies of Nordic legal overseers, the Parliamentary Ombudsmen and Chancellors of Justice in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, amid the COVID‐19 crisis. We study how the accountability capacities of the legal overseers were affected when standard practices of inclusive decision‐making were severed ...
Tero Erkkilä +2 more
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Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden
Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
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State Choices, Unequal Access: Policies Shaping Reproductive Health Care Across the United States
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points State policies and programs play an outsized role in shaping availability and access to sexual and reproductive health services across the nation. This has a major impact on women's access to contraception, abortion, and maternity services.
ALINA SALGANICOFF +2 more
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