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Elections as an instrument for transition to democracy in the Czech Republic [PDF]

open access: yesAnnales Scientia Politica, 2018
This article is devoted to the topic of the analysis of the electoral system in the Czech Republic. Despite that initially, there have been such rules in the electoral law that complied with international election process standards of organising and ...
Radim Holechek
doaj  

The political economy of misusing income distribution in the electoral process: A biased pluralism approach [PDF]

open access: yesEkonomski Anali, 2017
This paper examines the consequences of distribution of income on election results in conditions of biased pluralism and a small-scale electorate, when the results of the democratic electoral process are compromised due to electoral corruption ...
Praščević Aleksandra
doaj   +1 more source

Electoral Due Process [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Elections and their aftermath are matters left to the states by the U.S. Constitution. But the Supreme Court has made clear that the right to vote is federally protected, and fiercely so.
Milkovich, Sarah
core   +1 more source

Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diffusion‐Driven Targeted Passivation of Selenium Vacancies via an I‐Doped CdS Buffer Layer for Efficient Sb2Se3 Solar Cells

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Iodine incorporation into the CdS buffer layer induces spontaneous anion diffusion and selectively passivates selenium vacancies in Sb2Se3 absorbers. The formation of low‐energy, charge‐neutral ISe defects effectively suppresses non‐radiative recombination, resulting in a substantially enhanced open‐circuit voltage and boosting the device efficiency to
Luyan Shen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are Americans confident their ballots are counted? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Building on the literature that investigates citizen and voter trust in government, we analyze the topic of voter confidence in the American electoral process. Our data comes from two national telephone surveys where voters were asked the confidence they
Alvarez, R. Michael   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Confianza en el INE: un análisis en el marco del proceso electoral federal de 2018 / Trust in the ine: An Analysis from the Elections of 2018

open access: yesRevista del Instituto Electoral del Estado de México. Apuntes Electorales, 2022
En México se ha hecho referencia a una crisis de confianza institucional. El Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) no se ha librado de ella, sufriendo una disminución desde 2006.
Issis Luz María Juárez Rodríguez   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tax Policy and Farm Organization

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) introduced substantial changes to the tax code, affecting farms' organizational incentives. This study examines farms' responses to the TCJA along extensive and intensive margins, focusing on organizational and labor expense adjustments.
Tia M. McDonald, Katherine Lacy
wiley   +1 more source

Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

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