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Woolf’s Exploration of —Combinations: Feminism in Night and Day

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2020
Night and Day (1919) has been neglected by both readers and critics, especially if the reception of the novel is compared to that of other Woolfian writings.
Nicolas Pierre Boileau
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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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‘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
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L’autoreprésentation de femmes en conflit : les récits d’emprisonnement des suffragettes

Anglophonia, 2010
Between 1905 and the beginning of World War I around a thousand suffragettes were imprisoned because of their political activities. The conflict between the suffragettes and the government reached its climax in 1909 when some of the imprisoned ...
Christian Auer
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Problems of substituting vacant deputy’s mandates due to early termination of powers of a deputy elected within a list of candidates

Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные науки, 2022
Background. The distribution of deputy mandates after the end of the elections is one of the most controversial issues in legal science. The use of various methods of mandate distribution directly determines the implementation of electoral rights.
M.Yu. Emelin, B.V. Nikolaev
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Active Yet Cautious: How Middle States Navigate Status in the Universal Periodic Review

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how states positioned in the middle of the international status hierarchy behave in the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR). While the UPR was established as a cooperative mechanism to move away from confrontational naming and shaming, in practice it has become a reputational arena where states strategically ...
Chun‐Young Park
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Women’s Experimental Economies in W. Somerset Maugham’s Short Fiction: Negotiating Women’s Roles in “Daisy”, “The Colonel’s Lady” and “The Creative Impulse”

Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2019
Dans ses nouvelles, W. Somerset Maugham s’essaie à différents types de narration dont les traits stylistiques saillants peuvent être considérés comme caractéristiques de son écriture. Trois nouvelles en particulier portent sur l’évolution ambiguë du rôle
Francesca Massarenti
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Compulsory voting increases men's turnout most

American 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
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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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Religious politics and the limits of redistribution: The rise and fall of family allowances in Spain, 1926–58

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract After the Second World War, family allowances became a cornerstone of social spending in western Europe. Whilst religion is often highlighted as a driver of this policy, the role of political Catholicism remains contested, particularly in southern Europe.
Guillem Verd‐Llabrés
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