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Elections as Vehicles for Change? Explaining different outcomes of democratic performance and government alternation in Africa

Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 2019
Does having more regular elections improve democratic performance in Africa? And have elections transformed the patterns of alternation in government? To answer these questions, two analyses are conducted drawing on an original dataset of 179 elections ...
Edalina Rodrigues Sanches, José Jaime Macuane   +1 more
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Reflecting on the Nigerian Media, Elections, and the African Democracy

SAGE Open, 2016
This article examines how the media could enhance the conduct of elections. It also discusses the implications of the 2007 elections on public assessment of Nigerian democracy.
Godwin Ehiarekhian Oboh
doaj   +1 more source

Why Local Party Leaders Don't Support Nominating Centrists [PDF]

, 2021
Would giving party leaders more influence in primary elections in the United States decrease elite polarization? Some scholars have argued that political party leaders tend to support centrist candidates in the hopes of winning general elections.
Christopher Skovron, Crowder-Meyer, David E. Broockman, de Benedictis-Kessner, Fiorina, Goss, Hacker, Hershey, La Raja, Lawless, Levitsky, Mann, McCarty, Melody Crowder-Meyer, Moncrief, Nicholas Carnes, Skocpol   +16 more
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Elective Intubation [PDF]

Respiratory Care, 2014
Endotracheal intubation is a commonly performed operating room (OR) procedure that provides safe delivery of anesthetic gases and airway protection during surgery. The most common intubation technique in the perioperative environment is direct laryngoscopy with orotracheal tube insertion.
Charles G, Durbin, Christopher T, Bell, Ashley M, Shilling   +2 more
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Clicks and Mortar: Electoral Campaigning in the 21st Century

Government and Opposition
Research focused on digital tools and the Global South has enhanced our understanding of electoral campaigning. Although big data and social media seem to be game-changers in contemporary politics, studies of data-driven campaigns highlight that the ...
Tim Haughton
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Counting interesting elections [PDF]

, 2010
We provide an elementary proof of a formula for the number of northeast lattice paths that lie in a certain region of the plane. Equivalently, this formula counts the lattice points inside the Pitman--Stanley polytope of an n-tuple.Comment: 7 pages, 1 ...
Eric, Lara K. Pudwell, S. Rowland
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Pemilihan Umum Menurut Hukum Islam

Ahkam: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah, 2016
This article discuss the implementating general election in Islamic law, both the legislative elections, elections of regional heads and presidential elections. Indonesian elections in accordance with the mechanism of the western democracies, so that the
Sodikin Sodikin
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Communication and Language Profiles of Children Treated for Posterior Fossa Brain Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Cognitive and language deficits are frequently reported sequelae of posterior fossa brain tumors (PFBT). Typically, delayed onset impedes prompt assessment and early intervention. This has devastating implications for quality of life.
Zara Sved, Meghan Hesse, Jennie Cusiter, Annabel Webb, Kimberley Docking   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indonesia's democratic dilemma: why asymmetric regional head elections are the future

Via Inveniendi Et Iudicandi
The purpose of this study is to construct asymmetric regional head elections. Asymmetric regional head elections need to be constructed as a response to the problems that exist in the regional head selection model in Indonesia.
Syofyan Hadi, Sultoni Fikri, Baharuddin Riqiey, Reza Maulana Hikam   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source