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Challenging the ‘S’ of Mayoral Strategic Authorities: Standardisation over Strategy?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The Labour government's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (EDCEB) represents the most ambitious attempt yet to embed devolution and ‘empower communities’ across England, completing the map of devolution under mayoral strategic authorities.
Nicholas P. Sweeney
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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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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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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
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Women as Producers of Global Historical Knowledge
Österreichische Zeitschrift für GeschichtswissenschaftenIn 1907 the Grand Duchy of Finland of the Russian Empire became the first state in the world to elect women to its national parliament. This paper explores an overlooked part of the process that led to Finnish women attaining full suffrage, which is ...
Juho Korhonen
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Direct Elections to the European Parliament: community legislation and national laws [PDF]
, 1987 The 10 June 1987 the first European elections by direct universal suffrage will take place in SpainEl 10 de junio de 1987 España participará por primera vez en las elecciones ...
Parlamento Europeo +1 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
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The Green Paper from a Constitutional Perspective [PDF]
, 2007 CommentDue to a treaty reservation to Article 25(b) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), 1 the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government says that the right to universal suffrage is not a treaty right ...
Lim, CL
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The argument of the broken pane: Suffragette consumerism and newspapers [PDF]
, 2014 Within the cut-throat world of newspaper advertising the newspapers of Britain's Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) Votes for Women and the Suffragette managed to achieve a balance that has often proved to be an impossible challenge for social ...
Baldasty Gerald J. +21 more
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