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Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission: Sixth Report to Congress and the President

, 2020
Report from the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission providing an update about their work as well as summaries of "signature" projects for the centennial and featured partner ...
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Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission: Third Report to Congress and the President [PDF]

, 2019
Report from the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission providing an update including an outline of their plan to execute their charter, the launch of the Commission's website to document and advertise the centennial, and plan for future ...
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The Constitutional Rights of Women and the Objectives of the Hungarian Women’s Movements (1867 – 1918)

Journal on European History of Law, 2018
The principle of equality before the law was of utmost importance in the eastern part of the Habsburg Monarchy (1867-1918). This article presents the legal status of women and particularly problematic questions concerning the above mentioned principle ...
Kinga Császár
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Philanthropy for the Disenfranchised

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philanthropy has an uneasy relationship with democracy. It distributes decision‐making power plutocratically, in proportion to wealth. It allows unelected, unaccountable, and often untrustworthy individuals to shape social outcomes. And it does so in domains where democracy should be authoritative. Yet, at the same time, philanthropy does much
Jacob Barrett
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Suffrage Snapshot: Episode 4

, 2020
Whiteboard animation video describing the history of women's suffrage in the United States. This episode focuses on the various suffrage associations and leaders that worked toward the right to ...
United States. Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission.
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A Hundred Thousand Darlingtons: Self‐Respect, Moral Judgement, and the Right to an Equal Democratic Say

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I defend the non‐instrumentalist thesis that every adult member of a political society has a pro tanto fundamental moral right to an equal democratic say in determining the content of the laws to which she is subject. I begin by giving an account of an important kind of servility that has received only glancing notice in philosophical ...
Shruta Swarup
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Suffrage Snapshot: Episode 2

, 2020
Whiteboard animation video describing the history of women's suffrage in the United States. This episode focuses on the differences between "suffragist" (primarily U.S.) and "suffragette" (primarily U.K.) as well as the similarities of the suffrage ...
United States. Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission.
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La citoyenneté des Anglaises, 1850-1914. À la conquête de l’opinion publique

Revue 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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The Frontiersmen as an Object of Czech Nationalism 1918–1935

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the phenomenon of the frontiersmen, that is, the Czech minority border communities, as a part of the discourse of the Czech nationalist movement. Via the example of the Czechoslovak National Democracy party, it traces the frontiersmen on two levels.
Dominik Šípoš
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Do They Want, Can They, and Have They Been Asked? Generational Differences in Reasons for Non‐Voting in Switzerland

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In many advanced democracies, newer generations and younger citizens are less likely to vote than earlier generations and older individuals. However, despite this being an established empirical matter, less is known about the reasons why they decide to stay away from the polls. This’ Age‐Period‐Cohort’ (APC) study analyzes generational and age
Reto Mitteregger, Thomas Jocker
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