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Separation of Powers and Universal Suffrage [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 The introduction of universal suffrage for the selection of the Hong Kong Chief Executive is often portrayed as the answer to the problems afflicting the executive-legislative relationship in Hong Kong. But even in the increasingly unlikely event that a consensus can be reached on the necessary electoral methods, the introduction of universal suffrage ...
Gittings, DJ
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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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Electoral rules in Serbia and the European standards on universal suffrage [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2014 Elections are the most important form of citizens' participation in political decision-making processes in every state. Electoral rules shape the electoral democracy as an essential component of democracy.
Nastić Maja
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Women and Science. The keys to equality
Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review, 2021 The traditional exclusion of women from the public sphere, from education, politics, art and culture, as well as women’s confinement to the domestic realm, have –little by little– undergone steady change since the Enlightenment, with the liberalisation ...
Josep Lluís Barona
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The Law and Politics of Constitutional Reform and Democratization in Hong Kong [PDF]
, 2014 Since 1997, the former British colony of Hong Kong has practiced autonomy as a 'Special Administrative Region' (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) under a constitutional arrangement known as 'One Country, Two Systems' (OCTS).
Chen, AHY
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Hong Kong’s Stand-off: Indigenous Dynamics and International Perspective
Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2021 In February 2019, Administration of Hong Kong initiated Extradition Bill, which sparked mass protests in June. The scale of the protests was unprecedented in the history of the SAR and resulted in violent clashes between police force and young radicals ...
A. I. Salitskii, A. V. Vinogradov
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‘Going on with our little movement in the hum drum-way which alone is possible in a land like this’: Olive Schreiner and suffrage networks in Britain and South Africa, 1905-1913 [PDF]
, 2016 This article explores the letters of South African feminist writer Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) to illuminate connections and tensions between suffrage movements in the imperial metropole and on the colonial periphery. Schreiner's letters shed fascinating
Dampier, HC
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Київські історичні студії, 2023 The transformation of the political regime of the UPR Directory from the leading revolutionary insurgent body to the supreme state institution of the republic with special powers was analyzed.
Vasyl Yablonskyi
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Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2016 In spite of the distrust that modern political structures could produce among Catholics and how often they resorted to hostile rhetoric towards liberalism, the Catholic leadership in Argentina at the end of the Conservative Order (in a similar way to ...
Martín O. Castro
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Is Democracy Possible Without a Restriction of the Suffrage?
Studia Humana, 2014 Today, the concept of democracy seems inextricably linked with that of universal suffrage. But is it true? To let that anyone with a given age has the right to vote is a very good democratic practice, or would prefer to question the criteria for access ...
Alfano Vincenzo
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