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Wilting wildflowers and bummed‐out bees: Climate change threatens US state symbols

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Species designated as state symbols in the United States carry cultural importance, embody historical heritage and maintain long‐standing linkages to Indigenous traditions. However, they are threatened by climate change and even face the risk of local or global extinction.
Xuezhen Ge, Ya Zou, Heather A. Hager, Jonathan A. Newman   +3 more
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The Struggle for Swiss Women’s Suffrage in Times of Rising Anti-feminism

DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies
This article examines the rise of anti-feminism in Switzerland during the 1930s and its impact on the women's suffrage movement. It analyses how anti-feminist arguments, advocating for women's withdrawal from wage labour and reinforcement of traditional ...
Dominique Lysser, Pauline Milani
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Challenging the ‘S’ of Mayoral Strategic Authorities: Standardisation over Strategy?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Labour government's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (EDCEB) represents the most ambitious attempt yet to embed devolution and ‘empower communities’ across England, completing the map of devolution under mayoral strategic authorities.
Nicholas P. Sweeney
wiley   +1 more source

Scrolling Forward, Sliding Backward: How Social Media Threatens the Functionality of Democracy

Social Sciences
Political theorists have suggested that democracy is at odds with liberalism. Moreover, with fears about the recent rise in populism, there is growing skepticism about whether liberalism and democracy can continue to survive.
Hiroki Takeuchi, Kitty Eid
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THE MAIN ISSUES OF THE REGISTRATION (ACCOUNTING) SYSTEM OF ELECTORS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные науки, 2020
Background. Issues of the implementation of electoral rights and the organization of elections are one of the key elements of the modern legal system.
M. Yu. Emelin, B. V. Nikolaev
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La soberanía nacional en la constitución de Cádiz

Revista de Derecho Político, 2011
En este trabajo se hace un cotejo entre el principio de soberanía nacional, propio del constitucionalismo (no de las llamadas «Constituciones» o «Leyes Fundamentales» del Antiguo Régimen) y la primera Constitución española, de1812.
Antonio Torres Del Moral
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‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
wiley   +1 more source

Selecting the Electorate

Politikon, 2023
Autocrats utilize (nominally) democratic elections, to claim procedural legitimation. To secure their political survival in these elections, they have an extensive menu of manipulation at their disposal.
Kristin Eichhorn
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Are You With Us? : A Study of the Hoosier Suffrage Movement, 1844-1920 [PDF]

, 2016
Are You With Us? challenges longstanding assumptions about Hoosier women\u27s political activism by examining participation within the state suffrage movement.
Bowman, Sarah
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source