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The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State [PDF]

We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women’s disenfranchisement carries a societal cost.
Graziella Bertocchi
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A particular electoral system

Sfera Politicii, 2019
The parliamentary elections of November 2-9, 1919, were the first collective experience of democracy in the Romanian political space. It was based, after more than five decades of census electoral practice, on the mechanism of universal (male) voting ...
Alexandru Radu
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The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World [PDF]

Most analysis of how the distribution of political power affects the patterns of growth has been confined to the late-twentieth century. One problem associated with a focus on the modern record is that processes that take place over the long run are not ...
Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Stanley L. Engerman
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Public Discussions on the Reform of the City Electoral System of the Russian Empire at the Turn of the 20th Century

Historia provinciae: журнал региональной истории
The article is devoted to the problem of reforming city elecgtroral system, which was raised in the works of political writers, economists, jurists, and local government officials of the Russian Empire at the turn of the 20th century.
Sorokin Aleksandr A.
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Restoring the Right to Vote [PDF]

, 2008
The right to vote forms the core of American democracy. Our history is marked by successful struggles to expand the franchise, to include those previously barred from the electorate because of race, class, or gender.
Erika Wood
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The determinants of social spending in Spain (1880-1960): Is Lindert right? [PDF]

The main objective of this paper is to analyse the origins of the welfare state in Spain using the theoretical framework designed by Peter Lindert.
Margarita Vilar Rodriguez, Sergio Espuelas Barroso   +1 more
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FROM A PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY TO A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: AN UNFINISHED PROCESS [PDF]

CES Working Papers, 2016
The Parliamentary Assembly of the European Communities was the precursory body of the European Parliament, but it lacked the legitimacy the latter would gain starting with 1979, the year when the first European elections were held.
Ioana Antoaneta DODI
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1848: European revolutions [PDF]

, 2012
Discusses the various ways in which the European revolutions of 1848-9 contributed to the shaping of modern democratic ideas and practices.
Rapport, M.
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The Evolution of the Right to Vote: From Limited to General Right to Vote

Nous Academy Journal
The 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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Destructive power, enforcement and institutional change [PDF]

Institutions are usually defined as rules of the game. But if rules are dead letters without being enforced, then what is the role of destructive power in the genesis of institutions?
Vahabi, Mehrdad
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