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Public Attitudes Toward Compassionate Release of Older People From Prison: Findings From a National Survey in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid increase in older people in prison populations worldwide is generating significant health, cost, and human rights pressures on custodial systems. Compassionate release for older, frail inmates is a potentially effective response, yet little is known about public support for this approach.
Ye In (Jane) Hwang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Weighted Approval Voting [PDF]

open access: yes
To allow society to treat unequal alternatives distinctly we propose a natural extension of Approval Voting [7] by relaxing the assumption of neutrality.
Massó, Jordi, Vorsatz, Marc
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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
wiley   +1 more source

The utility of the voting power approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This paper argues that the voting power approach is much more general than is portrayed by Albert (“The Voting Power Approach: Measurement without Theory”, European Union Politics, 4:3, 2003) and is therefore capable of generating important insights ...
Leech, Dennis
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Rată de participare, supraraportare și predicții electorale

open access: yesSociologie Românească, 2004
The paper proposes a model for correcting errors for the voting predictions based on social survey data. The model considers the relation between the rate of participation in voting (at aggregate level and by category of population), for the previous ...
Mircea Comșa
doaj  

How Media Represent Australian Indigenous Business: Comparing Australian and International Coverage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Media representations of Indigenous business shape public perceptions, investor confidence and consumer demand, influencing how Indigenous enterprises are valued and understood. This Indigenous‐led study systematically reviews grey literature on Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses published between 2006 and 2024 ...
Maria Raciti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The use of Coleman's power indices to inform the choice of voting rule with reference to the IMF governing body and the EU Council of Ministers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
In his well known 1971 paper the mathematical sociologist James S. Coleman, proposed three measures of voting power: (1) "the power of a collectivity to act", (2) "the power to prevent action" and (3) "the power to initiate action".
Leech, Dennis
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‘I Used to Be Illegal and Now I'm a Priority’: A Critical Thematic Analysis of LGBTI+ Voices From the Australian Royal Commission Into Aged Care

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Due to historic and anticipated discrimination, engaging aged care services can see LGBTI+ older adults conceal their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Recommendations from the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care claim to have addressed the needs of a range of diversity groups, including the needs of LGBTI+ older
Patricia Cain   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minority control: an analysis of British companies using voting power indices [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
An exercise in the empirical use of voting power indices from cooperative game theory to applied ownership data for large companies, this paper contributes in two areas: (1) the analysis of company control based on shareholding voting power, and (2) the ...
Leech, Dennis
core  

Cerebral No‐Reflow after Thrombectomy: International Delphi Consensus on Definition and Imaging Assessment

open access: yesAnnals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Background The operational definition and imaging assessment of the no‐reflow phenomenon, a potential contributor to poor clinical outcome despite successful thrombectomy, remains debated. We aimed to develop expert‐based international consensus on the definition, assessment, and reporting standard of cerebral no‐reflow post‐thrombectomy. Methods Three‐
Adnan Mujanovic   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

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