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Ranked choice voting shows simple dynamics and limited exhaustion
Study of ranked choice voting across 110 real elections shows competitive benefits, transparent dynamics, and minimal vulnerability to manipulation or ballot exhaustion.
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Indian constitutional rights and practice remain separated
Analysis of gaps between India's constitutional human rights protections and their implementation, examining judicial innovations and systemic barriers to rights realization.
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Indonesia’s dynastic politics coincided with democratic decline
Examine how Indonesian political dynasties systematically manipulated democratic institutions from 2014-2024 while preserving electoral legitimacy through adaptive mechanisms and constitutional.
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Volunteer Moderation as Situated Civic Labor in Local Information Infrastructures
Research on volunteer moderators of local online groups reveals how they sustain community information infrastructure through interpretive civic labor and contextual knowledge.
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ARCHITECTURE, MEMORY AND INSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY: THE ROLE OF THE 1963, 1999, 2019 COMPETITIONS SHAPED THE STAATSBIBLIOTHEK ZU BERLIN
Three architectural competitions defined the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin's identity across political periods. The 1963 competition reflected Cold War democracy, 1999 addressed reunification, and.
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Post-Brexit growth policy is critiqued for widening regional inequalities
Analysis of UK regional development policies post-Brexit, comparing neoliberal market-driven approaches with alternative models like community wealth building and cooperative frameworks.
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Myanmar case links democratization to religious nationalist hatred
Examination of how autocratic cooptation of majority religious clergy incentivizes religious nationalist mobilization against minorities during democratization transitions
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Youth-oriented VAAs improved party position knowledge
Experimental study shows youth-oriented voting advice application significantly improved party position knowledge among Belgian voters aged 16–30, while generic version had no effect.
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Village heads used government aid to sustain political power
Study of how Indonesian village heads use government assistance to maintain power and influence elections during the country's democratic transition period.
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Foreign-born women remain underrepresented in Swedish councils and parliament
Literature review of 20 studies examining foreign-born political underrepresentation in Swedish parliament and local councils alongside analysis of factors enabling or hindering their participation.
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Nested governance is seen as insufficient for planetary environmental crises
Examining why global environmental governance fails to address planetary crises through fragmented multilateral agreements and proposing nested systems and world federation approaches for.
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Meloni government's longevity stems from multiple stabilizing mechanisms
Analysis of the Meloni government's exceptional longevity in Italy, examining how multiple stabilizing mechanisms converge across the coalition lifecycle to produce durable governance.
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Social media helped organize Indonesian protest agendas
Examine how social media framing and agenda-setting shaped the August 2025 Indonesian protests, analyzing hashtags, organizational actors, and institutional responses.
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Uncertainty mistranslation can weaken sociotechnical resilience
Explores how governments mistranslate epistemological uncertainties into technical problems, undermining resilience governance. Examines nuclear safety and pandemic surveillance failures through.
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Mokae’s novel reworks the police procedural in post-apartheid South Africa
Analysis of Gomolemo Mokae's post-apartheid detective novel examining genre subversion, black consciousness thought, and reimagining of police authority in South African crime fiction.
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Ordinary Germans adopted democratic habits without full democratic meaning
Examines how ordinary Germans engaged with democratization during Allied occupation, revealing democracy functioned as performative rituals before becoming authentic political consciousness.
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Neoliberal law is described as reconfiguring democratic conflict
Sociological analysis of how neoliberal law displaces political conflict from democratic arenas into juridical domains, fragmenting collective agency and neutralizing dissent through claims of.