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Why electoral systems don’t always matter: The impact of “Mega-seats” on legislative behavior [PDF]
, 2011 A significant and influential body of research suggests that electoral systems influence legislators’ behavior. Yet, empirical research frequently fails to uncover the existence of such a relationship.
Martin, Shane G.
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
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International Journal of Communication, 2017 Mechanisms that are known to forge political agreement include interpersonal influence—the process by which people change their ideas according to others’ attitudes—and selection—people’s choice of their discussants according to their discussants ...
Moreno Mancosu, Cristiano Vezzoni
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The effects of polls on Burkinabe populations during election periods
RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and JournalismOpinion polls play an important and often controversial role in electoral contests. It is one of the main tools of political communication in democratic societies, where citizens receive much of their information during election campaigns. In Francophone
Regis Dimitri Balima +1 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the relations among firm political ideology, state political ideology, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure. It is the first study to simultaneously explore both individual‐ and state‐level influences on ESG disclosure.
Gianluca Moretti +2 more
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Identification of Voters with Interest Groups Improves the Electoral Chances of the Challenger [PDF]
Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that, by coordinating voting behavior, these interest groups increase the winning set, which is defined as the set of policy platforms for ...
Frans Van Winden +2 more
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The political economy of public spending composition: evidence from a panel of OECD countries [PDF]
We evaluate the influence of political and institutional features in public spending and its functional composition, by focussing on political actors’ preferences, both opportunistic and partisan, as well as on institutional arrangements as political ...
Maria Manuel Pinho
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Climate Change Risks and Customer Concentration: Evidence From US‐Listed Firms
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While prior studies have investigated climate risks in supply chains, customer ESG pressures, and shared climate exposure, this paper is, to the best of our knowledge, the first to provide direct empirical evidence on the relationship between climate change risks and firms' customer concentration.
Thi Thuy Trang Nguyen +2 more
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Electoral behavior of the Russian youth
Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2018 There are considered the peculiarities of electoral behavior of modern Russian youth depending on social origin, income level, social environment, education, age, and also analyzes the readiness of the youth electorate motivated to implement electoral ...
K. G. Ustinkin
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Populist Rhetoric in Electoral Political Space of Modern Russia: Regional Aspect
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2015 The article presents the analysis of regional features of populist rhetoric realization as the basis of electorate mobilization. The motivational characteristics of electoral preferences are established, the strategy of populist policy in the Russian ...
Efanova Elena Vladimirovna +1 more
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