Members of parliament have more effective incentives to cater for the majority’s preferences when they are elected in districts with few seats in parliament rather than in districts with many seats. We empirically investigate this hypothesis by matching voting behavior on legislative proposals of Swiss members of parliament with real referenda outcomes on the same issues for the years 1996 to 2...

Women’s political representation has been for decades ahead of women’s rights movement. However, women presence in politics is not only limited to women political participation but their position in party politics as well. This paper aims to analyze the role of parties in empowering women at the UK parliament and tries to contribute towards the existing literature through presenting an interdis...

Legislation is always made with the goal for progress and ensuring equality in society. Resultantly laws take on role of catalyst social modifications. The current review meant to know relationship between regulation change specific areas women's empowerment, focusing women related Pakistan from 2000 2015. Karachi metropolis nucleus qualitative review; utilizing purposive sampling technique, tw...

Engineering education is under the sway of wide-ranging dynamics and drifts that have bearing on how enacted in relation to research innovation obligations universities. Academic, applied, third mission seem configure higher new ways. The article sets out critically explore knowledge production discursively teaching-research-practice-nexus engineering universities applied science (UAS) Denmark....

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How do adult students enact citizenship, and what discursive and material conditions make certain enactments more or less possible? This paper draws on 37 interviews with adult students at Swedish Folk High Schools and focuses on the everyday material-discursive enactments of interactive media in adult students’ statements about citizenship. Drawing on a post-constructional perspective, the ana...

This article contributes to scholarly discussions about sanctuary enactments. We analyse transversal enactments, i.e. when migrants in search of protection are provided with basic welfare and an opportunity remain, contestation the state’s migration politics. The study draws on empirical data collected through a transdisciplinary research initiative Sweden, Asylum Commission. analysis is based ...