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This paper examines the challenges that Indigenous peoples face when they use cultural rights arguments to influence the decision making of international organizations such as the United Nations, the WTO and NAFTA regulatory boards. The paper responds to the concerns that identity politics has...
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In this study, a group of Swedish social media users – politically active as well as “unpolitical” users – are interviewed in focus groups as well as individually about their attitudes towards online political participation, providing a deeper, more informed view of how social media...
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. In that paper, we argue that there are four possible mechanisms related to direct democracy that could lead to this …
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of his work are enhanced. Among other things, we stand to learn much about his contributions to the democracy theory of … that he is the Philosopher of Democracy.ヤ I will highlight Emersonメs early and late religiosity, mainly focusing on the … relation to democracy, or what I will call Emerson's spiritual democracy. I will identify two central and interrelated …
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The impact of legislative term limits on women's representation has developed through several stages. After term limits reforms passed but before they took affect, research suggested that women's representation would increase due to the forced retirement of - mostly-male incumbents. After term...
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Many scholars have discussed the consequences of the personal vote on the behavior of legislators, yet little scholarship has been devoted to the effect of the personal vote on the success of women candidates. My paper engages this important issue, employing a comparative lens to examine how...
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In this paper, I examine how citizen characteristics in a city impact the use of municipal initiatives. My primary research question is: Under what conditions are citizens most likely to raise local initiative contests? Further I ask: Can the initiative be used as an end-run around voting rights...
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This paper examines whether goverment partisanship matters in East Asian new democracies. Specifically, we explore in what way economic inequality and welfare spending have been affected by government partisanship in South Korea and Taiwan. While many studies in comparative political economy of...
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This paper explores how mechanisms of democracy - such as secrecy and publicity - serve to enhance or restrict the …
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We make rights claims for all kinds of reasons, under vastly different circumstances and in a host of distinctive contexts. And we do this all around the globe. But why do we make rights claims? What do we intend to do when we engage in this activity? And what is it that we actually do,...
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