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Race, Gender, and Empire: The Strange Career of Women’s Voting Rights in Wyoming

open access: yesTransatlantica, 2022
Historians have long puzzled over the fact that the earliest victories for women’s voting rights in the United States were won in the American West, far from the most prominent centers of women’s political activism.
Virginia Scharff
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The wholesale problem with Congress: the dangerous decline of expertise in the legislative process

open access: yesRussian Journal of Economics and Law, 2023
Objective: to document the declining respect for expertise in the US Congress, the implications for policymaking given the wholesale nature of the legislative process, and some possible ways to account for the decline of expertise in the legislative ...
R. E. Barkow
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Civic education as a factor in overcoming absenteeism in Ukraine

open access: yesПолітичні дослідження, 2022
This publication examines the features of the manifestations of political absenteeism and public activism in Ukrainian society. The phenomenon, causes of political absenteeism and its impact on the socio-political life in Ukraine are studied, as well as ...
Oleksandr Kornievskyy   +2 more
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Terminated marketing order provided resources to California peach and nectarine growers

open access: yesCalifornia Agriculture, 2020
Marketing orders allow farmers to collectively fund industry-wide services that may be difficult to provide through a voluntary approach. But not all farmers support collective approaches. We employed ballot data from U.S.
Zoë Plakias   +2 more
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An Evolutionary View of the U.S. Supreme Court

open access: yesMathematical and Computational Applications, 2021
The voting patterns of the nine justices on the United States Supreme Court continue to fascinate and perplex observers of the Court. While it is commonly understood that the division of the justices into a liberal branch and a conservative branch ...
Noah Giansiracusa
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SmartMinutes—A Blockchain-Based Framework for Automated, Reliable, and Transparent Meeting Minutes Management

open access: yesBig Data and Cognitive Computing, 2022
The aim of this research work was to investigate the applicability of smart contracts in the context of automating the process of managing meeting minutes. To this end, smartMinutes, a proof-of-concept prototype of automating meeting minutes was designed,
Amir Salar Hajy Sheikhi   +3 more
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An Improved Three-Way Clustering Based on Ensemble Strategy

open access: yesMathematics, 2022
As a powerful data analysis technique, clustering plays an important role in data mining. Traditional hard clustering uses one set with a crisp boundary to represent a cluster, which cannot solve the problem of inaccurate decision-making caused by ...
Tingfeng Wu, Jiachen Fan, Pingxin Wang
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THE USE OF BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY IN LAW, POLITICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Law, 2018
The article examines the existing practice of using blockchain technology in law, politics and public administration, as well as the prospects of its further use in these areas.
Konstantin E Sigalov   +2 more
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The Three-Legged Stool of Voter Engagement

open access: yesCritical Social Work, 2020
Disparities in voter turnout have increased significantly over the past four decades. Members of historically oppressed groups, those who are low-income, and or who have lower levels of education vote at significantly lower rates than white, wealthy and ...
Adelaide K. Sandler   +3 more
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Gender Differences in Civic and Political Engagement and Participation Among Italian Young People

open access: yesSocial Psychological Bulletin, 2021
A substantial amount of literature has revealed gender gaps in political participation. However, little is known about such gaps when using more comprehensive measures of civic and political participation including online participation.
Serena Stefani   +5 more
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