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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Enfranchisement"”.
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The efficacy of jury trials in the South African civil justice system
… minimal concept of democracy associated with enfranchisement was adopted. Democracy, however, should not be limited to the enfranchisement of the masses. It ought to include some level of direct public participation in branches of the government such as the judicial system.
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A primer on primaries: Exploring the variation in U.S. primary election laws
… In this dissertation, I analyze the variation in enfranchisement, or the type of primary, focusing on primary elections for offices below the level of the presidency (e.g., congressional, gubernatorial, state legislative, etc.). Some states’ primaries are open to all voters, while other states …
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Independent Labour Party men and women's suffrage in Britain, 1893-1914
… is a study of the attitudes towards women's enfranchisement, and involvement within the British women's suffrage movement, of the male members of the Independent Labour Party, a mixed sex socialist organisation. The period covered ranges from 1893, the year of the party's foundation, to the …
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To the Serving of Our Brethren: Origins and Early Social Ministry of the Independent Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, Alabama, 1915-1930.
… founding minister, Henry Morris Edmonds, as "the enfranchisement of the whole being in its search for God."
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WORDS AS DEEDS: GENDER AND FEMINIST DISCOURSE IN BRITISH SUFFRAGE PERIODICALS (1907-14)
The movement for women’s enfranchisement carefully exploited the press in order to convey its message and as a further help for its campaign, despite the fact that the Suffragettes’ motto was ‘deeds, not words’. The publication of their own periodicals, aimed at a new type of female readership, was …
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The political role of women in north-east Ulster, 1890-1940
… government councillor. The impact of women’s enfranchisement in changing women’s political stature has also been analysed, as have the methods deployed by women to exert political influence. These methods range from entertaining Tory and unionist leaders in high society to membership of …
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Classifying videogames as art and why it matters now
… as art within the institution, primarily the enfranchisement of young women artists. I do this by reviewing the new National Curriculum in computer programming and considering how, in the light of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, this new education area will empower young women to be able …
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Suffrage, solidarity and strife: political partnerships and the women's movement 1880-1930
… and attitudes toward, the campaigns for women' s enfranchisement over a fifty year period from 1880 - 1930. The aim of this study is to contribute to our understanding of the gendered nature of political activity and identity through an examination of the women' s suffrage campaigns, in particular …
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Toward a Global Human Rights Regime for Temporary Migrant Workers: Lessons from the Case of Filipino Workers in the United Arab Emirates
… borders without a path to citizenship or full enfranchisement in the political, economic, and social life of the host country. Where citizenship and residence/employment are divided between multiple countries, the corresponding human rights obligations are similarly divided. This division …
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Imperial splendor: Diamonds, commodity chains, and consumer culture in nineteenth-century Britain
… and wear diamonds was to proclaim one’s cultural enfranchisement in late Victorian society on a global scale, not only in terms of class but gender and race ideology as well. Victorians knew about the rise of the De Beers monopoly, the brutal control the Company exercised over its workforce and …
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Imagining and building more equitable and democratic systems: lessons from Bay Area organizations
… and oppression. While strides have been made in enfranchisement and inclusion, communities continue to be systematically marginalized, dispossessed and disempowered. Processes illuminate the often invisible purpose and values that underlie systems, but as this research discusses, an overemphasis …
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Assimilation Through Incarceration: the Geographic Imposition of Canadian Law Over Indigenous Peoples
… to state law was a critical precondition of enfranchisement into the adult milieu. When indigenous identities persisted, children were removed from their families and placed in residential schools for intensive assimilation. Adults and children deemed noncompliant to state laws were coerced …
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Determinants of College Students' Opinions Towards Felon Voting Rights: An Exploratory Study
The disenfranchisement of felons follows a long American tradition of selectively granting the most coveted democratic tradition - voting. As a collateral "civil" consequence to criminal conviction that is legally deemed as non-penal, felon voting prohibitions have been used as an exclusionary tool …
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Out of Time: Temporal Colonization and the Writing of Mexican American Subjectivity
… in a liminal 'mean time' of delayed political enfranchisement in order to dispossess Mexican Americans of their land and social standing. I go on to argue that Mexican American literature moves differentially across multiple forms of time to critique temporal domination by drawing on the …
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Democratising Democracy: Reimagining Prisoners as Active Citizens Through Participatory Governance
… personal experience of participative and civic ‘enfranchisement’ with council members. This study of ‘democracy in unlikely places’ is distinct as it brings prison sociology and democratic theory together empirically. The research is based on quasi-ethnographic fieldwork which included 112 …
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A Jail Is Not Social Housing: making new grounds for Chinatown
… communities endure a cycle of settlement, disenfranchisement, and eventually, destruction. The city, rather than invest in its communities, responds each time with a new jail. Under this urban mode, architecture provides few forms of accessible inhabitation beyond the neo-feudal rental system …
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Essays in public policy and social outcomes in Brazil
… voting and Social Spending: The impact of enfranchisement on municipal public spending in Brazil This article studies the effect of political participation on municipal level public spending. We use the gradual introduction to electronic voting in Brazil, which especially enfranchised …
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Recuperando la Tierra: Understanding the Legacies of Social Movements through the Entanglement of Home and Urban Housing Landscapes in Costa Rica
… the urban poor; (2) encouraging the political enfranchisement and empowerment of women and women-headed households; and (3) providing local level infrastructure for addressing and preventing intrafamilial violence through health cooperatives. Through a pro-poor housing subsidy, the bono de …
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The Globalization of Cosmetic Surgery: Examining BRIC and Beyond
… authentic opportunities for individual enfranchisement via cosmetic surgery on a macro level. Furthermore, I argue that by constructing and labeling "modernity" in terms that benefit the status quo and reflect historical relationships of force, developed nations maintain hegemonic …
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Oscar James Dunn: A Case Study in Race & Politics in Reconstruction Louisiana
… political ascent was linked to the political enfranchisement of antebellum Anglo-Africans in Louisiana, Dunn’s involvement in Anglo-African institutions (particularly the York Rite Masonic Lodge and the African Methodist Episcopal church) and Dunn’s ability to find middle ground in the …
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