DeFi, Not So Decentralized: The Measured Distribution of Voting Rights

America's Lone Star Constitution

10.1525/california/9780520297807.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Lucas A. Powe Jr.

Keyword(s):

Supreme Court ◽

Capital Punishment ◽

School Finance ◽

Constitutional Law ◽

Civil Liberty ◽

Voting Rights ◽

The Rich ◽

The Relationship

Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state. In any classroom nationwide, any basic constitutional law course can be taught using nothing but Texas cases. That, however, understates the history and politics behind the cases. Beyond representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional law, Texas cases deal with the major issues of the nation. This book charts the rich and pervasive development of Texas-inspired constitutional law. From voting rights to railroad regulations, school finance to capital punishment, poverty to civil liberty, this book provides a window into the relationship between constitutional litigation and ordinary politics at the Texas Supreme Court, illuminating how all of the fiercest national divides over what the Constitution means took shape in Texas.

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Women in legislature after II World War

Pedagogika Rodziny ◽

10.2478/fampe-2014-0006 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 55-63

Author(s):

Małgorzata Niewiadomska-Cudak

Keyword(s):

Gender Equality ◽

Voting Rights ◽

World War ◽

National Parliaments ◽

The World ◽

Promote Gender Equality

Summary The article treats not only about the struggle of women to obtain voting rights. It is an attempt to answer the question as to why only so few women are in national parliaments. The most important matter of the countries in the world is to confront stereotypical perception of the roles of women and men in a society. It is necessary to promote gender equality in the world of politics.

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The Extended Nation as a Political Project – Hungarian Diaspora Living in Western Canada

Polish Political Science Review ◽

10.2478/ppsr-2018-0015 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 91-103

Author(s):

Ágnes Vass

Keyword(s):

Western Europe ◽

Domestic Politics ◽

Voting Rights ◽

Political Campaigns ◽

Western Canada ◽

Legislative Elections ◽

National Belonging ◽

State Budget ◽

External Voting ◽

Diaspora Policy

AbstractPolicy towards Hungarians living in neighbouring countries has been a central issue for Hungarian governments, yet Hungarian diaspora living mainly in Western Europe and North America have received very little attention. This has changed after the 2010 landslide victory of Fidesz. The new government introduced a structured policy focused on engaging Hungarian diaspora, largely due to the nationalist rhetoric of the governing party. The article argues that this change reflects a turn of Hungarian nationalism into what Ragazzi and Balalowska (2011) have called post-territorial nationalism, where national belonging becomes disconnected from territory. It is because of this new conception of Hungarian nationalism that we witness the Hungarian government approach Hungarian communities living in other countries in new ways while using new policy tools: the offer of extraterritorial citizenship; political campaigns to motivate the diaspora to take part in Hungarian domestic politics by voting in legislative elections; or the never-before-seen high state budget allocated to support these communities. Our analysis is based on qualitative data gathered in 2016 from focus group discussions conducted in the Hungarian community of Western Canada to understand the effects of this diaspora politics from a bottom-up perspective. Using the theoretical framework of extraterritorial citizenship, external voting rights and diaspora engagement programmes, the paper gives a brief overview of the development of the Hungarian diaspora policy. We focus on how post-territorial nationalism of the Hungarian government after 2010 effects the ties of Hungarian communities in Canada with Hungary, how the members of these communities conceptualise the meaning of their “new” Hungarian citizenship, voting rights and other diaspora programmes. We argue that external citizenship and voting rights play a crucial role in the Orbán government’s attempt to govern Hungarian diaspora communities through diaspora policy.

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