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From Custom to Court: The Evolution of Mediation in European Legal Systems

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces how European mediation has repeatedly rebalanced three variables—(1) the source of mediator authority, (2) the degree of institutionalization, and (3) the operative meaning of voluntariness—from antiquity to the present. Using three periods—Proto‐Mediation (c. 500 BCE–c. 1750), Classical Mediation (c.
Viktoriia Hamaiunova
wiley   +1 more source

Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws' Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout [PDF]

open access: yes
Regular church attendance is strongly associated with a higher probability of voting. It is an open question as to whether this association, which has been confirmed in numerous surveys, is causal.
Alan Gerber   +2 more
core  

Substantive or Symbolic? Analyzing the Quality of Impact Reports in Italian B‐Corps Through Legitimacy Theory

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability reporting has become increasingly compelling, particularly among hybrid organizations such as B‐Corps, which seek to balance profit and purpose and are required to publish annual Impact Reports. This study assesses the completeness of disclosed information in the 2022 Impact Reports of 74 Italian B‐Corps, drawing on legitimacy ...
Laura Ferraro   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Is Participation Low in Referendums? Lessons from Latin America

open access: yesLatin American Research Review
Whether referendums, initiatives, and other mechanisms of direct democracy enhance representative systems is a matter of debate. Skeptics note—among other criticisms—that turnout tends to be low in referendums, often lower than in candidate elections in ...
Eli Gavin Rau   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) and Environment Social Governance (ESG): A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a systematic literature review exploring the intersection of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria. The study synthesizes current research, identifies prevailing trends, and highlights gaps within this emerging field.
Zile Huma   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rain, ElectionS and MOney : The impact of voter turnout on distributive policy outcomes in japan

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Does voter turnout affect policy outcomes? This long-standing question has been re-visited recently with close empirical scrutiny. These studies, however, commonly suffer from a problem of omitting variables correlated with both causal and outcome ...
Jun Saito, Yusaku Horichi
core   +1 more source

Election outcomes and maximizing turnout: Modelling the effect [PDF]

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An election outcome reflects institutional, behavioural and attitudinal influences. We set out a model showing it is a function of the electoral system, the offices at stake and the number of parties competing as well as the choices of voters and the ...
Rose, Richard, Kohler, Ulrich
core  

Breaking Down Online and Digital Reporting Practices: A Research Map From Websites to Social Media

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper adopts a mixed research methodology, integrating bibliometric and systematic literature review (SLR) tools, to systematise the academic contributions and the different bodies of knowledge generated over the last decades on online and digital reporting practices, ranging from websites to social media.
Giuseppe Nicolò   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Voter Turnout Analysis of Canadian Undergraduate Student Unions, 2016-2018

open access: yesCanadian Journal for New Scholars in Education
Annual election turnouts of campus student unions from Canadian publicly funded universities are analyzed for the 2016, 2017, and 2018 academic years. This first quantitative study of its kind in a Canadian context assesses the current state of student ...
Justin Patrick   +2 more
doaj  

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