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Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A Research Agenda
Perspectives on Politics, 2004 Mainstream comparative research on political institutions focuses primarily on formal rules. Yet in many contexts, informal institutions, ranging from bureaucratic and legislative norms to clientelism and patrimonialism, shape even more strongly ...
Gretchen Helmke, S. Levitsky
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South European Society & Politics, 2022 This is an introductory article for a special issue on affective polarisation in Spain. After discussing the concept and its operationalisation in multi-party settings, we offer data on affective polarisation in Spain and Southern Europe from a ...
Mariano Torcal, J. Comellas
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Evaluación de las democracias contemporáneas bajo los efectos de la crisis económica
Teoria Jurídica Contemporânea, 2017 RESUMEN: Históricamente ha habido un debate sobre el resultado del proceso democrático que se centra en si el producto de las democracias deben ser derechos políticos y libertades civiles o por el contrario deben ser bienes y servicios básicos a los ...
Carlos Garcia-Rivero, Hennie Kotzè
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CONSTRUCTING AN ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT IN CHINA
Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania, 2010 Building an accountable government has been a major part of government change in the past 30 years since the reform and opening-up. It is clear that China government has become more responsive.
Yang Xuedong
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TOWARDS INNOVATIVE PARTICIPATION-ORIENTED PLANNING OF INFRASTRUCTURE MEASURES [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2020 Planning and realization of large infrastructure takes a lot of time due to public discussion and may be reduced by active citizen participation in an early stage of project.
M.-O. Löwner +6 more
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Religion and Politics in Nicaragua: What Difference Does A Revolution Make?
Iberoamericana: Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2013 La meta de este artículo es examinar la relación entre religión y política en Nicaragua con especial énfasis en las relaciones de poder entre la Iglesia Católica y el Estado.
Einar Berntzen
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Politics & Society, 2021 This article argues that the quiet politics of informal business-state interaction explains the political determinants of growth regimes. Building on the business power literature within the study of comparative capitalism, it shows that the noisy ...
Dorothee Bohle, Aidan Regan
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Te Deum Cristiano Evangélico: ‘The Evangelical’ in Guatemalan Politics
Iberoamericana: Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2013 Siendo el país con el mayor porcentaje de evangélicos en la región latinoamericana, Guatemala ha tenido ya varias experiencias con el desempeño político de evangélicos, la mayoría de los cuales han salido de sus cargos dejando dudosos legados.
Maren Christensen Bjune
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Estonia: Right-Wing Populists in the «Strange Coalition» [PDF]
Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН, 2019 The article analyzes incentives to and mechanisms of building a coalition of Center Party, Pro Patria and Estonian Conservative People’s Party in Estonia, as well as provisional results of this coalition’s activities since April 2019.
Petr Oskolkov
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POLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS [PDF]
Annual Review of Political Science, 2004 ▪ Abstract Two large research programs have analyzed election-based connections between citizens and policy makers in different democracies. Studies of vote-seat representation in the tradition of Rae (1967) begin with citizens' party votes and have made substantial progress in elucidating the impact of election laws, geographic vote distributions ...
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