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"Caesarism without Caesars": Representation, Autonomy and the Democratization of the Law in the Late Habsburg Empire

Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne, 2009
In The Question of Nationalities and Social Democracy (1907), Otto Bauer sought to reconcile nationalism and socialism while anticipating the introduction of universal suffrage in Austria.
Larissa Douglass
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Thomas Spence on Women’s Rights: A Vindication

Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2016
Thomas Spence, a defender of women’s political and economic rights, was one of the very few pamphleteers who advocated women’s suffrage in his times. Nevertheless, he has been criticized by some historians for his patriarchal, even reactionary outlook ...
Rémy Duthille
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Czy demokracja to rządy większości wyłonionej w wyborach? [PDF]

Avant, 2018
The paper critically examines the conception of majoritarian democracy. In the second part of the text, the author introduces the definition of majoritarian democracy based on the Joseph Schumpeter’s theory of minimal democracy.
Wojciech Ciszewski
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"…the white women all go for sex": Discourses of Gender, Race, Ethnicity in the American Woman’s Rights Movement, 1869

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2012
As an emancipating movement for women, the American Woman’s Rights Movement can be considered as a "counter public sphere" which transgressed dominant orders of gender.
Michaela Bank
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Between Socialism and Feminism: Charlotte Glas (1873–1944)

Religions, 2016
This article explores how Charlotte Glas, a founding member of the Austrian Social Democratic Party and a leading figure in the public sphere during the late imperial period, attempted to advance the cause of workers’ rights and women’s emancipation ...
Siegfried Mattl
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Statistical modelling in the Russian electoral research of the early 20th century (on the example of I. Chernyshev’s journalism) [PDF]

Социологический журнал, 2013
The article analyses the research of the electoral situation inRussiaduring free democratic elections to the Constituent Assambly, conducted by Marxist sociologist oflawI. Chernyshev in 1905.
O. A. Kazhanov
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La representación parlamentaria de intereses socio-económicos en la doctrina constitucional = The parliamentary representation of socio-economicinterests in the constitutional doctrine

Revista de Derecho Político, 2013
La historia del pensamiento político nos muestra que desde diferentes ópticas ideológicas ha habido autores que se han planteado la conveniencia de sustituir o completar el sufragio universal por otro que tuviera en cuenta la representación de los ...
Antonio M. García Cuadrado
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Elizabeth van Dorp and the Women’s Question at the Intersection of Bourgeois Ideals and Liberal Economics

Œconomia, 2022
This paper situates the work of the first Dutch female economist Elizabeth (Lizzy) van Dorp on the women’s question within her broader economic and social views and it details her struggles to obtain a respected position within the economics profession ...
Erwin Dekker, Willem Cornax
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Geometric vulnerability of democratic institutions against lobbying: a sociophysics approach

, 2017
An alternative voting scheme is proposed to fill the democratic gap between a president elected democratically via universal suffrage (deterministic outcome, the actual majority decides), and a president elected by one person randomly selected from the ...
Galam, Serge
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