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Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how municipal legislators frame climate mitigation and how these framings shift responsibility, narrow the perceived scope of municipal authority, and reduce the urgency or feasibility of local action. We analyzed 31 interviews with city councilors serving on Permanent Environmental Committees across municipalities in ...
Tainá Yumi Patriani
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Invalid Ballots and Electoral Competition [PDF]
We study how the closeness of electoral race affect the number of invalid ballots under the traditional paper-ballot voting technology. Using a large dataset from the Italian parliamentary elections in 1994-2001, we find a strong positive correlation ...
Gani Aldashev, Giovanni Mastrobuoni
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The interest in putting a price on carbon emissions is increasing in pace with the urgency of climate change. In this article we compare the adoption of one such policy instrument, carbon taxation, in the cases of Sweden and Mexico. We use a theoretical framework that focuses on economic and environmental factors influencing the policy process
Jakob Skovgaard +3 more
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European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The atrocities committed during the Nazi era still affect Germany's image in the world and Germans' feelings about their country's past. Herein, we investigate how historical propaganda images glorifying Adolf Hitler influence these feelings. Prior scholars have raised concerns that such materials might communicate distorted images of the past
Lara Ditrich +3 more
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Immigrants and electoral enrolment: Do the numbers add up? [PDF]
: The electoral enrolment of immigrants is important for effective democracy. Electoral rolls also provide useful administrative data on the age, regional distribution, and intercensal movements of the eligible voting population.
Anne Henderson
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Left Wanting and Left Unheard: A Dual Grievance Model of Populism Across Six European Countries
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study tests a dual grievance model of populism by examining whether relative deprivation and external political inefficacy are linked to two core dimensions of populist beliefs (people sovereignty and anti‐elitism) via aversive political emotions (anger, sadness and fear) and institutional distrust across six European countries (N = 5487).
Anna Cortijos‐Bernabeu +2 more
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Conspiracy Theory Endorsement Profiles: A Cluster Validation Study
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A substantial body of research has investigated the determinants of conspiratorial beliefs, yet little is known about different conspiracy theory endorsement profiles. The present study used cluster analysis on a set of 52 conspiratorial statements tapping into six conspiracy theory types to identify and validate conspiracy theory endorsement ...
Otto Mäki +6 more
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The setting of market economy in Romania - statistical arguments [PDF]
Concerning the period 1990-2004, one can formulate a hypothesis of economic and national industrial cyclical phenomenon of “Juglar” type, with two visible evolution periods, the former of expansion and the latter of recession, and between them, less ...
Săvoiu, Gheorghe/G.
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Ethnic leadership and the politics of legitimacy: electoral practices in the Chinese diaspora in Thailand. [PDF]
Front SociolGao Z, Run P, Liu Y.
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European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Affective polarisation, a growing hostility toward political outgroups, is a phenomenon rooted in social identity. Social identity threat—the expectation of experiencing some form of denigration based on a self‐relevant group identity—is thought to be a major driver of affective polarisation.
Brandon McMurtrie +4 more
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