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Jim Crow in New York [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
More than 108,000 New Yorkers cannot vote because of a conviction in their past. Almost half of these disenfranchised citizens have completed their prison sentence and are living and working in the ...
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.   +3 more
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Antiféminisme sur papier glacé

open access: yesGlad!, 2018
With his book The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy published in 1991, economist Albert O. Hirschman offered an analysis of different rhetorics against social changes (French revolution, universal suffrage and welfare state). His frame
Auréline Cardoso
doaj   +1 more source

The Green Paper from a Constitutional Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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La prensa católica e ideología. Algunos ejemplos de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX

open access: yesBrocar. Cuadernos de investigación histórica, 2010
The sequence of events that took place during the second half of the nineteenth century in Spain, had a great influence on the social and ideological role of the Church on the national scene.
Rebeca Viguera Ruiz
doaj   +1 more source

The gender of representation: On democracy, equality, and parity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The debate regarding the statutory introduction of gender parity in electoral lists has been led, on the one hand, by those who envisage parity as a way to attain substantive equality between the genders.
Rodíguez Ruíz, Blanca   +1 more
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Suffragettes of the empire, daughters of the republic: women auto/biographers narrate national history (1918-1935) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper explores modes of autobiographical writing by female authors in the early republican period. Women's autobiographies draw a strict distinction between the narration of the private and the public self, as they promote the narration of the ...
Adak, Hulya, Adak, Hülya
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Human Rights in Hong Kong: One Country Looms as Two Systems Fade [PDF]

open access: yesContemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, 2018
Twenty-one years after Hong Kong reverted to Chinese sovereignty, the jury of China’s experiment of “one country, two systems” is still out. But fears are growing. True, the city remains one of the freest economies.
Chris Yeung
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Passer du local au national, ou comment devient-on député sous la Restauration ?

open access: yesCybergeo, 2004
The article analyses the way the scale changes in association with the change of register. It is based on the analysis of the overlapping of two processes during the years 1830-1840. The first process corresponds to the developments of the arguments of a
Nicolas Verdier
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Language Change in British Parliamentary Discourse: A Corpus-Based Study of Power and Authority Markers, 1930-2005

open access: yesAtlantis
From a political perspective, 1928 marks the beginning of a new period in the history of democracy in the U.K., this being when universal full suffrage was achieved via the Representation of the People Act. Taking into consideration this and other social
Carlos Soriano-Jiménez
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