Unanswered Questions
461 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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What leverage do U.S. federal workers' unions have?
Federal workers in the United States are bound by law to not strike, and many union leaders claim their workers "believe in public service" and "they’re not just going to walk away".
Given that ...
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To what extent do Kashmiri people desire independence?
This is a link to an Indian debate show, where they discuss a "shocking poll" that reveals "73% of people in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir want freedom from Pakistan".
Question: Is this true, and what ...
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How frequently do prime time presidential addresses occur?
The Trump administration has requested airtime on major networks for President Trump’s prime-time message regarding immigration. The major broadcast and cable news networks CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox News, ...
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What treaties or (written) agreements would a hard border in Ireland breach, post-Brexit?
Would the hard border that would come up in a "no deal" Brexit (between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) be violating any binding agreements that the UK has signed? (And the same goes for ...
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Are there some detailed accounts of how the post-2015 Turkish purges happen?
I'm asking this because most (Western) news stories on the topic are rather opaque, along the lines of "X thousands of state employees in sector Y" got purged. Granted, there are so many of these ...
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What measures exist to impose budget-like changes without passing through the Australian senate?
In this article is says:
Treasurer Joe Hockey has warned the Labor Party and the Greens to pass
tough budget measures through the Senate or the government will find
other ways to push through ...
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Land reform in Guatemala
Recently, after attending to a conference with some Guatemalan politicians, I began to take interest in this country's socio-economical issues, in particular with regard to land.
I that in the 1950s ...
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How can I locate RFP information, bid submissions, or other publicly available information from a procurement document number?
I am trying to learn more about a particular piece of software used to submit forms to a US federal agency. I have a 'procurement document number' sometimes also called an 'award ID'. Using this ...
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What have been the largest hostile cross-benches in Australian senate / house of review history?
The Australian federal senate is a house of review, elected from multiple member state electorates. It is usually comprised of a Government (often in minority), an Opposition (in lesser minority), ...
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Why doesn't Bhutan have diplomatic relations with most countries in the world?
Dark green - diplomatic relations, blue - the rest of the EU members (Bhutan has diplomatic relations with the EU, but not individually with those in blue).
According to Wikipedia,
Bhutan has ...
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How is judicial independence ensured for International Tribunals?
According to this article, Mladic's conviction by International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague found widespread international support. However, this opinion is not ...
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Rules for New Hampshire's 1845 Congressional election
The following are the election results (source):
The footnote reads:
New Hampshire was entitled to four seats in the 29th Congress (1845–1847), but only elected three representatives. Woodbury ...
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Are there many liberal democracies that use “the more favorable criminal law” principle?
This question is somehow a followup of this one (split suggestion). At the end of January 2017, Romanian Government (executive branch) made several changes to Criminal Law using a Government Ordinance....
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How much have carbon-based industries invested in anti-climate-change lobbying in Australia?
There are reports that oil, coal and gas industries in America have invested more than half a billion dollars on lobbying against acting on climate change. In Australia there are more than 540 '...
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Does Saudi Arabia support Baathist resistance in Iraq?
Does Saudi Arabia support Baathist resistance in Iraq, currently led by Ad-Douri? Do they want to install a similar regime as in Egypt to counter the Qatari influence?
