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Workers of the world, unite! Franchise extensions and the threat of revolution in Europe, 1820-1938 [PDF]
This paper tests the hypothesis that the extension of the voting franchise was caused by the threat of revolution, as suggested by Acemoglu and Robinson (2000).
Aidt, Toke S., Jensen, Peter S.
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article engages with Ching‐Kwan Lee's (2025) idea that the post‐1997 Hong Kong protests represent a series of decolonization efforts, stemming from British colonial rule and now from the Chinese ‘neo‐colonial’ regime. Instead of focusing on Hong Kong natives, however, this article presents mainland Chinese immigrants (MCIs) who live in ...
Yao‐Tai Li
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Leading the Charge: The Role of Women in Municipal Budgeting
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gender inclusion and diversity have become increasingly important in local governance as a tool to improve equitable public decision‐making. Despite these efforts, the representation of women in leadership roles, particularly those heading initiatives such as social equity budgeting (SEB), varies greatly by municipality.
Saman Afshan
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Women’s Suffrage: A Cinematic Study
Revue LISA, 2014 Cinema reflects actualities about law but it also shapes other possibilities for law. These assumptions guide my case study of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States and the conflicting conceptualizations of women’s equality in which that ...
Suzanne Bouclin
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Forgotten feminists: the Federation of British Professional and Business Women, 1933-1969 [PDF]
, 2007 Using archive documents of the British Federation of Business and Professional Women (BFBPW) this article explores the role of this early business organisation in campaigning for feminist issues in the post-war period.
Perriton, L.
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Social Equity Practices in Public Financial Management: A Conceptual Review and Proposed Reforms
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Equity has been at the core of public finance going at least as far back as 1776 when Adam Smith included it as one of four canons of a good tax in his classic An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Tax Project Institute 2025).
John R. Bartle +2 more
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The Evolution of the Right to Vote: From Limited to General Right to Vote
Nous Academy JournalThe phenomenon of political administration is a phenomenon that has always maintained its importance since ancient times. The phenomenon of political administration is always a prominent issue, whether in a small community or in a country with large ...
Elif Hafize Bahat
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Philanthropy for the Disenfranchised
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Philanthropy has an uneasy relationship with democracy. It distributes decision‐making power plutocratically, in proportion to wealth. It allows unelected, unaccountable, and often untrustworthy individuals to shape social outcomes. And it does so in domains where democracy should be authoritative. Yet, at the same time, philanthropy does much
Jacob Barrett
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Urban Election System in Russia at End of 19th Century: Criticism in Provincial Periodicals
Научный диалогThe article provides a first-time examination of the evaluations of the urban election system in the Russian Empire during the period of 1890-1892, when the preparation and implementation of the new City Regulations were taking place.
A. A. Sorokin
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Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I defend the non‐instrumentalist thesis that every adult member of a political society has a pro tanto fundamental moral right to an equal democratic say in determining the content of the laws to which she is subject. I begin by giving an account of an important kind of servility that has received only glancing notice in philosophical ...
Shruta Swarup
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