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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
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Vote Pricing Spatial Probability Models in the Philippines
Recoletos Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2013 This paper seeks to look into the causes and factors that lead to the practice of vote buying in the Philippines. This also tries to examine the motivations of candidates who buy and sell their votes.
Jessica M. Avenido +2 more
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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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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
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K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature, 2016 This paper examines the socio-historical subversion of ‘juridico-discursive’ power in the late Victorian period. It briefly investigates the rise of the British suffrage movement and highlights the role of ‘suffrage drama’ as its social apparatus.
Esmaeil Najar, Reza Kazemifar
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Modernity and Progress: The Transnational Politics of Suffrage in British Columbia (1910-1916)
Atlantis, 2020 Canadian historians have underplayed the extent to which theproject of suffrage and first wave feminism was transnational in scope. The suffrage movement in British Columbia provides a good example of the global interconnections of the movement.
Lara Campbell
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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
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Citoyenneté féminine sous la Seconde République : entre le réformisme social et la démocratisation
Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine, 2014 The Spanish Second Republic brought modernising changes but also continuities in gender relations, as well as legal reforms and cultural resistances. This process of democratisation -with its contradictions and its limits- was possible in a new political
Ana Aguado
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Luther v. Borden: A Taney Court Mystery Solved [PDF]
, 2017 It has not been generally remarked that Chief Justice Taney wrote surprisingly few of the Taney Court’s major opinions—those cases that tend to be anthologized and remembered by generalists.
Weinberg, Louise
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.This paper examines the substantive representation of women in Australian legislative institutions by analysing private members' bills introduced at the state and federal levels from 1997 to 2022. While Australia has made considerable progress in gender equality, persistent sexism and misogyny challenge the substantive impact of increasing numbers of ...
Isabella Vacaflores, Elise Stephenson
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