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Leading the Charge: The Role of Women in Municipal Budgeting

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender inclusion and diversity have become increasingly important in local governance as a tool to improve equitable public decision‐making. Despite these efforts, the representation of women in leadership roles, particularly those heading initiatives such as social equity budgeting (SEB), varies greatly by municipality.
Saman Afshan
wiley   +1 more source

Mediating women's suffrage literature [PDF]

open access: yesWomen's Studies International Forum, 2006
Synopsis Although cultural productions of the women's suffrage campaign have received increasing attention, the literary, historical and political issues raised by this body of material remain contentious. This article examines why suffrage literature has often been regarded as ‘insignificant’, and proposes new ways in which the body of writing can ...
Norquay, Glenda, Park, Sowon S
openaire   +3 more sources

Are You With Us? : A Study of the Hoosier Suffrage Movement, 1844-1920 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Are You With Us? challenges longstanding assumptions about Hoosier women\u27s political activism by examining participation within the state suffrage movement.
Bowman, Sarah
core   +1 more source

" Women! Your Country Needs You! " Fleeing Feminism or Gendering Citizenship in Great War Britain?

open access: yes, 2008
doi erroné : 10.3172/MIN.4.2.26International audienceWhen war broke out in August 1914, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies suspended its political work on behalf of women's suffrage and plunged into relief work for women and children ...
Calvini-Lefebvre, Marc
core   +2 more sources

Social Equity Practices in Public Financial Management: A Conceptual Review and Proposed Reforms

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Equity has been at the core of public finance going at least as far back as 1776 when Adam Smith included it as one of four canons of a good tax in his classic An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Tax Project Institute 2025).
John R. Bartle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

La citoyenneté des Anglaises, 1850-1914. À la conquête de l’opinion publique

open access: yesRevue 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
doaj   +1 more source

\u27You Have Lost Your Opportunity\u27 British Quakers and the Militant Phase of the Women\u27s Suffrage Campaign: 1906-1914

open access: yes, 2014
Quakers are widely believed to have been in the forefront of 19th century social change, and in particular to have been in favour of women\u27s equality.
Lunn, Pam
core  

Philanthropy for the Disenfranchised

open access: yesPhilosophy &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
wiley   +1 more source

Women’s Suffrage Movement

open access: yesReference & User Services Quarterly, 2014
The trials during the Women's Suffrage Movement that rocked the beginning of the United States is reaching their one-hundredth anniversary, making this an imperative time to begin, add, or renew any collection. As this is a world-wide and continuous struggle, a collection such as this will continuously need to be upgraded as seen fit, but here are some
Aimee Graham, Patricia F. Dolton
openaire   +2 more sources

A Hundred Thousand Darlingtons: Self‐Respect, Moral Judgement, and the Right to an Equal Democratic Say

open access: yesAnalytic 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
wiley   +1 more source

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