Essays about: "vote rights"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 29 essays containing the words vote rights.
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16. One felon, no vote: The role of racial threat in felon disenfranchisement laws across the United States
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis looks at the role played by racial threat mechanisms in the persistence of felon disenfranchisement laws across the 50 American states. The US has a long history of disenfranchising its felons, and the motivations behind implementation of these laws has been mixed. READ MORE
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17. From Refugees to Citizens: What Happens to Livelihoods? – A Study of How New Tanzanians Utilize Their Citizen Rights
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiAbstract : The purpose of this study was to find out how attaining citizenship had affected livelihood opportunities and strategies among the approximately 200,000 Burundian refugees who after more than 40 years in exile became Tanzanian citizens in late 2014. It is a case study of local integration and development, analysing the situation for new Tanzanian citizens through the sustainable livelihoods framework. READ MORE
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18. The Utility of the Emerging Right to Democratic Governance in a Mobile World
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis seeks to investigate whether the emerging right to democratic governance, as conceptualised by Thomas Franck, is of any use to the large numbers of migrants within and arriving to the EU. Focusing on Europe, it does this by assessing whether the right can be considered a human right, using the lens of universality and inalienability: it assesses whether migrants still have the right to democratic governance once they leave their country of citizenship. READ MORE
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19. Institutional change through discursive opportunities : The path to marriage equality in Ireland
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The thesis investigates the institutional change in the case of the same-sex marriage referendum in Ireland. By using theories of discursive opportunity, framing and institutional change the study traces the public discourse on homosexuality, and analyzes which opportunities for progressive gay rights policies it presented. READ MORE
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20. A New Stalemate : The Influence of South Sudan's Independence on The Nile Basin's Water Politics
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Uppsala centrum för hållbar utveckling, CSD UppsalaAbstract : : This study assesses how South Sudan’s 2011 vote for independence has influenced the Nile Basin’s debate over water rights. Although it initially seemed that South Sudan was aligning itself with the upstream riparian states such as Ethiopia and Uganda, effectively leaving Egypt and Sudan as the only opponents to a Cooperative Framework Agreement and redefining so-called ‘historic water rights’, the escalation of the South Sudanese internal conflict between President Salva Kiir and ex-Vice-President Riek Machar changed this situation entirely. READ MORE