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Universal Suffrage: The Century of Corrupting Incentives?

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
Conflict of interest of welfare dependent voter creates wrong incentives. These incentives inherent to universal suffrage, yield consequences, as predicted by John Adams back in the 18-th century. Historically the rise of the modern welfare state might be traced to the emergence of mainstream left parties, which promoted government care “from the ...
Konstantin Yanovskiy, Sergei Zhavoronkov
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La citoyenneté des Anglaises, 1850-1914. À la conquête de l’opinion publique

open access: yesRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique
Following the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), the women’s suffrage campaign was forged around the slogan “on the same terms as men”.
Myriam Boussahba
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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE FORMATION OF THE RIGHT TO PETITION

open access: yesНауковий вісник Ужгородського національного університету. Серія Право, 2021
The first legal mechanisms for both appeals and court proceedings appeared in the Roman state. The genesis of the development of the institution of citizens’ petitions to government agencies is undoubtedly of scientific interest.
H.M. Mehdiyev
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Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
wiley   +1 more source

Entre sentiment et raison : l’éducation morale et civique à l’école laïque dans la République en France (1870-1914)

open access: yesLes Cahiers de Framespa, 2017
The secular school instituted by the « Ferry Laws » has the vocation of cultivating the children to be citizens of the Republic that would be future agents of universal manhood suffrage.
Yali Meng
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The Local is Global: Broker for Human Rights “Florence Kitchelt, Connecticut Peace Activist and Feminist,” 1920-1961 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this paper, I will explore the role of local peace activist and feminist, Florence Ledyard Kitchelt (1874-1961) in supporting social justice, equality, and world peace.
Moon, Danelle L
core   +1 more source

Navigating Double Decolonization: Mainland Chinese Immigrants' Re‐Emphasis or Concealment of Chineseness in Hong Kong

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article engages with Ching‐Kwan Lee's (2025) idea that the post‐1997 Hong Kong protests represent a series of decolonization efforts, stemming from British colonial rule and now from the Chinese ‘neo‐colonial’ regime. Instead of focusing on Hong Kong natives, however, this article presents mainland Chinese immigrants (MCIs) who live in ...
Yao‐Tai Li
wiley   +1 more source

Features of the Principle of Universal Suffrage and for Mass Political Participation of Citizens: Foreign Experience

open access: yesУправленческое консультирование, 2018
The article is devoted to the implementation of the principle of universal suffrage, qualification limiting the implementation of the principle of universality, lessons learned in the implementation of the principle of developed and developing countries,
Irina Sergeevna Alekhina
doaj  

CODE SETTING TRENDS IN ELECTORAL MATTERS - CODE OF GOOD PRACTICE IN ELECTORAL MATTERS - VENICE 2002 [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2016
The integrated and ongoing effort of the of the states in the European area to modernize and adapt their laws to the current needs and exigencies of the citizens is transposed, in terms of constitutional matters, in the actions of the European Commission
Mircea-Constantin SINESCU   +1 more
doaj  

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