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Empowering Older Veterans Through Self-Directed Care: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Technology Enabled Respite Homecare Model Pilot. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Appl Gerontol
Harris-Gersten M   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Compulsory voting increases men's turnout most

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Equal turnout fosters equal representation. As such, researchers have long sought to understand what causes gender differences in voter participation. I argue that compulsory voting increases men's turnout relative to that of women. This is because men are particularly receptive to external incentives, while women are more intrinsically ...
Shane P. Singh
wiley   +1 more source

The choice argument for proportional representation

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract What electoral system should a democracy choose? I argue for proportional representation (PR). My main empirical premise is Duverger's law: Under PR there are more viable candidates in district‐level elections than there are under single‐member plurality (SMP) systems.
Adam Lovett
wiley   +1 more source

Extract of <i>Indigofera spicata</i> Exerts Antiproliferative Effects on Human Colorectal and Ovarian Carcinoma Cells. [PDF]

open access: yesToxins (Basel)
Shuvayeva G   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Can riots represent? A democratic theory

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Political theory has been perennially concerned with interrogating, identifying, and clarifying the political functions of riots. Yet, political theorists have mostly fallen short of explaining the relationship between riots and democracy, although this is central to the democratic theory of contestation and crucial for evaluating the ...
Alexis Bibeau‐Gagnon
wiley   +1 more source

Three decades of community health workers in primary healthcare delivery in Rwanda: evolution, impact and policy lessons. [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Glob Health
Hezagira E   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
wiley   +1 more source

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