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Preconditions for success or failure: analyzing the mechanisms enabling or blocking democratic openings in North Macedonia's 2015 mass mobilization

Frontiers in Political Science
This article examines the 2015 mass mobilization in North Macedonia, a landmark episode in the country's democratic trajectory. Triggered by the release of wiretaps implicating top government officials in corruption and abuse, the protests united diverse
Ioannis Armakolas, Ana Krstinovska
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Foreign Direct Investment and Civil Rights: Testing Decreasing Returns to Civil Rights [PDF]

In this paper, I examine the effectiveness of improvements in political and civil rights for attracting foreign direct investment flows (FDI) into democracies.
Ponce, Aldo
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The Role of European Union (EU) Metagovernance in Supporting the Voluntary and Community Sector in Northern Ireland

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that European Union (EU) peacebuilding scholarship can benefit from organizational research on the socio‐spatial dynamics of policy implementation. It introduces a strategic‐relational heuristic to address two key gaps: the marginalization of grassroots agency in spatial analyses and the separation of strategy from ...
Giada Lagana, Sioned Pearce
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A call for ethical, equitable, and effective artificial intelligence to improve care for all people with epilepsy: A roadmap. A report by the ILAE Global Advocacy Council and Big Data Commission

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is upon us. It will inevitably form a central component of epilepsy workflows and patient advocacy. Therefore, it behooves us as health care providers to ride the crest of this wave and guide its direction for the benefit of all people with epilepsy.
Colin B. Josephson, Sandor Beniczky, Spiros Denaxas, Akio Ikeda, Lara Jehi, Angelina Kakooza Mwesige, Nathalie Jette, Gabriel Davis Jones, Philippe Ryvlin, Arjune Sen, Chahnez Charfi Triki, Gabriella Waters, Alla Guekht, J. Helen Cross   +13 more
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Democratization as a cost-saving device [PDF]

We propose a theoretical analysis of democratization processes in which an elite extends the franchise to the poor when threatened with a revo- lution. The poor could govern without changing the political system by maintaining a continuous revolutionary ...
Luis Angeles
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Identity crisis: how ideological and rhetorical failures cost Egyptians their revolution [PDF]

, 2019
Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2019The Egyptian uprising, which began on January 25, 2011, and ended on February 11, 2011, culminated in the ending of President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year reign as dictator.
Abou Ghalioum, Ramzi
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Low‐Cost Friction‐Based Force‐Limiting Connection With Reduced Sensitivity to Machining Tolerances and Accelerated Repairability

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a novel yet practical friction‐based structural component design for low‐damage earthquake‐resistant structures. The proposed connection design is based on a conventional slotted‐bolted configuration with the novelty being the use of loose steel washer plates to establish the friction‐sliding interface.
Kaixin Chen, Georgios Tsampras, Chung‐Che Chou, Huang‐Zuo Lin, Chi‐Jeng Wu, Alvaro Córdova, Chia‐Ming Uang, Shih‐Ho Chao   +7 more
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Militer dans les barrios à Caracas (1958-1999). De la classe au quartier, du parti à la comunidad

Cahiers d’histoire
The history of the revolutionary left during the Fourth Venezuelan Republic (1958-1999) is here considered in terms of its militancy in the irregular and self-built working-class neighbourhoods of Caracas, the barrios.
Serge Ollivier
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Does Rapid Economic Growth Accelerate Democratization? Time-Series Evidence from High Performing Asian Economies [PDF]

We examine the direction of causality between growth and democratization for the high performing Asian economies using a new time-series technique called autoregressive distributive lag.
Linda Chor Wing Yung, Sam Hak-Kan Tang
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Nepal\u27s Protracted Democratization in Terms of Modes of Transition [PDF]

, 2010
Since 2005, Nepal has been engaged in a complex political transition that has resulted in the termination of Nepal’s 240 year old monarchy. Currently, the progress of Nepal’s political transition confronts the dual challenges of writing a constitution ...
Kantha, Pramod
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