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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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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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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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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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Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
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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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Cahiers Victoriens et EdouardiensThis paper will focus on how the religious symbolism used in the British women’s suffrage movement was integrated, perceived, and received by studying two particular cases: the funeral of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison and the Pilgrimage of the ...
Chloé Clément
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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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Suffrage and Women’s Writing, 2018 Women’s literary activity during the first two decades of the twentieth century, fuelled by the progressive spirit, served as a form of cultural lobbying through which they could articulate social and political problems and propose solutions.
E. Geçgil
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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