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The Asymmetrical Political Ethics of the European Parliament: Responding to Undemocratically Elected Representatives from Backslid(ing) EU Member States

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper offers a novel, productive approach to political ethics in the European Parliament (EP), assuming some of its members (MEPs) are elected undemocratically in member states severely affected by democratic backsliding. It explores the normative foundations of how other MEPs should deal with undemocratically elected MEPs here and now ...
Attila Mráz
wiley   +1 more source

Out of Many, Many: Variation in East Central Europe Financial Governance Despite the EU's Single Market

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Following the global financial crisis, European financial authorities introduced a host of new initiatives intended to advance market integration, improve the quality of bank oversight and enhance both economic stability and prospects for growth.
Dóra Piroska, Rachel A. Epstein
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Measuring the impacts of personal and corporate income tax cuts on a small island open economy [PDF]

, 2009
In 1999, subsequent to a legislative review, the authorities of the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal, decided to reduce income tax rates applicable locally by 30% in the case of corporate income and by 20% in the case of personal income.
Bayar, Ali, Fortuna, Mário, Mohora, Cristina, Opese, Masudi, Sisik, Suat   +4 more
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Linking rivers, mixing faunas: How artificial connectivity between the Middle and Upper Paraná River basins shapes fish diversity in a tributary of the Itaipu Reservoir, Brazil

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract This work aimed to investigate the distribution and occurrence of fish species along the São Francisco Falso Braço Norte (SFFBN) River basin, a tributary of the Middle Paraná River basin now artificially connected to the Upper Paraná ecoregion, to evaluate how such connectivity may affect the biogeographic distribution and regional composition
Lucas E. P. Kampfert, João C. Maicrovicz, Daniel R. Blanco, Denise Lange, Carla S. Pavanelli, Heleno Brandão   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating Leadership and Teamwork Competency Acquisition Through Clinical Simulation: Development of the Clinical Simulation Learning Leadership and Teamwork Scale

Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Advanced simulation is a methodology that allows the development of technical skills and transversal skills such as teamwork and leadership. There are tools to measure the development of technical competencies and student satisfaction with the methodology, but not to measure the development and use of transversal competencies in the clinical ...
Rafael González‐Moret, Beatriz Rodríguez Díez‐Caballero, Manuel Romero‐Saldaña, Daniel García‐Gutiérrez, Cristina García‐Salido, Estel·la Ramírez‐Baraldes, Isabel Serra Guillén   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Living Standards, Incomes and Accommodation Costs of Older New Zealanders Revisited [PDF]

In 2001 the then Ministry of Social Policy published a comprehensive study of the living standards of older New Zealanders. The current paper revisits the estimated relationship between material well-being and the current income and accommodation costs ...
Dean Hyslop, Ivan Tuckwell, Roger Hurnard   +2 more
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Unpacking Populist Secessionism: Elite Discourse and Mass Attitudes in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While political leaders increasingly combine populist and secessionist appeals, systematic evidence remains lacking regarding their effectiveness in mobilizing public support. Drawing on original survey data from Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where leader Milorad Dodik employs populist‐secessionist rhetoric, this study finds that
Semir Dzebo
wiley   +1 more source

Taking Risks, With and Without Probabilities

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some hold that expected utility is too restrictive in the way it handles risk. Risk‐weighted expected utility is an alternative that allows decision‐makers to have a range of attitudes toward probabilistic risk. It holds that any attitude within this range is instrumentally rational, since these attitudes represent different, equally good ...
Lara Buchak
wiley   +1 more source

Cold hardiness mechanisms and modeling: existing approaches and future avenues

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Cold hardiness models are useful tools to predict cold damage in plants, such as those produced by unseasonal temperature cycles or by increased cold exposure. Although development of these models started about five decades ago, their applications remain limited.
Guillaume Charrier, Al P. Kovaleski, Bénédicte Wenden, Heikki Hänninen   +3 more
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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
wiley   +1 more source