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Hong Kong\u27s democratic movement and the making of China\u27s offshore civil society

, 2012
Hong Kong\u27s civil society has remained vibrant since the sovereignty handover in 1997, thanks to an active defense by the democratic movement against Beijing\u27s attempts to control civil liberties.
HUNG, Ho Fung, IP, Iam Chong
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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
wiley   +1 more source

The dynamics of the principle of universal suffrage

Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Finansów i Prawa w Bielsku-Białej
The dynamics of the principle of universal suffrage are manifested in changes in the electorate and the catalogue of guarantees for exercising the right to vote.
Krzysztof Skotnicki
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Non-universal suffrage: measuring electoral inclusion in contemporary democracies [PDF]

European Political Science, 2019
The electoral franchise has become more universal as restrictions based on criteria such as sex or property have been lifted throughout the process of democratisation. Yet, a broad range of exclusions has persisted to this date, making the suffrage non-universal, even in established democracies.
Schmid, Samuel D., Piccoli, Lorenzo, Arrighi, Jean-Thomas   +2 more
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The iron law of democratic socialism: British and Austrian influences on the young Karl Polanyi [PDF]

, 2014
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.A central thesis of Karl Polanyi's The great transformation concerns the tensions between capitalism and democracy: the former embodies the principle of inequality, while
Bauer O., Bauer O., Bernstein E., Bottomore T., Braunthal J., Carpenter N., Cole M., Congdon L., Czerwínska-Schupp E., Deutscher I., Duczynska I., Foot P., Gareth Dale, Glass S. T., Gruber H., Gruber H., Hacohen M. H., Hanisch E., Hirst P., Ignotus P., Janos A., Kirkpatrick F., Leighton D., MacIntyre A., Marx K., Múcsi F., Nafissi M., Owen R., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi-Levitt K., Schumpeter J., Schumpeter J., Thompson E., Williams R.   +42 more
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source

Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser, Thomas Lux, Steffen Mau   +2 more
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Intimité et discours politique : l’intime dans les campagnes électorales de 1848

Itinéraires, 2012
Since the 1950 American election campaigns (from Eisenhower onwards), political marketing has brought to the foreground the family life of the candidates, their love lives, emotions… anything related to their personal lives.
Marieke Stein
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Electoral System of the Republic of Belarus after 25 Years of Independence [PDF]

Polish Political Science Yearbook, 2018
This paper aims to present a case study analysis of the condition of the electoral system in the Republic of Belarus after more than a quarter of a century of independence. The main purpose of the paper is to explain the discrepancies between legislation
Anna Kuleszewicz
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Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters.
Zoltan Miklosi
wiley   +1 more source