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Electoral volatility and the dynamics of electoral reform

West European Politics, 2016
AbstractRecent elections in Europe have shown that a context of increasing citizen distrust towards democratic institutions may lead to very high levels of electoral volatility and to the emergence of new parties. On the other hand, institutional reforms are sometimes presented as a solution to citizens’ discontent with political institutions. Focusing
Nunez Lopez, Lidia, Simón, Pablo, Pilet, Jean-Benoît   +2 more
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Transformative, Iterative or Performative? Conceptualising Patterns of Fossil Fuel Phaseout Leadership

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global leadership in phasing out fossil fuels is an important new frontier in climate governance, yet remains undertheorised within existing scholarly accounts of climate leadership. In this paper, we argue that ‘phaseout leadership’—climate leadership centred on curtailing fossil fuel supply—is a distinct kind of leadership that dominant ...
Freddie Daley, Lukas Slothuus, Daniela Soto‐Hernandez   +2 more
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Individuals Meaningfully Differ in How They Construct the Populist Subject of ‘the People’: Development and Initial Validation of the Popular Inclusion and Exclusion Scale

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the variety of populist manifestations, little research has dedicated itself to exploring this variation within and between individuals. Building on a discursive tradition, we propose that individuals meaningfully differ in how they construct the populist group of ‘the people’. Across three studies, we developed a popular inclusion and
Joseph D. Foley, Paul J. Maher, Orla T. Muldoon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Explainable and Uncertainty‐Aware Neural Modeling of Industrial CO2 Emissions With Economic, Energy, and Institutional Interaction Dynamics

Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
A global panel of 5138 country–year observations from 165 countries (1990–2024) integrates industrial CO2 emissions, economic structure, renewable‐energy use, and institutional indicators. A dual‐input neural network combines engineered numeric features with learned country embeddings to forecast industrial CO2 emissions under rolling‐origin temporal ...
Syed Azeem Inam, Saddam Umer, Hashir Shaikh, Amal K. Alkhalifa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who is a responsible woman? Understanding the scope and characteristics of responsible womanhood amongst women in Karachi

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we will construct and analyze intersecting definitions of womanhood among middle‐class women living in Karachi, Pakistan. Women are agents of their lives and are not passive voices. In this paper, we present narratives of women who resist “societal” narratives of womanhood to live a life of their choosing.
Urooba Ahmed Fatima, Kathryn B. H. Clancy, Alexandra Brewis, Neetu Choudhary, Mohammad Jobayer Hossain, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Sarah Trainer, Amber Wutich   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting International Student Mobility Under New Geopolitics: Stratification, Conditionality, and Uncertainty

Future in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the 21st century, the governance of international student mobility has undergone a fundamental transformation, driven primarily by securitization, geoeconomic competition, and domestic political pressures that conventional market‐based frameworks such as the push‐pull model and human capital theory cannot adequately explain.
Shibao Guo, Zhongrui Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Political Economy of Budgeting Reforms: A Comparative Analysis of the Adoption and Implementation of Programme‐Based Budgeting in Health Across Seven LMIC Countries

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite its widespread application in public financial management reforms across low‐ and middle‐income countries, programme‐based budgeting (PBB) implementation often remains relatively superficial. The technical weaknesses of the reform have been widely documented; however, the political economy dynamics around the introduction and ...
Maria Paola Bertone, Helene Barroy, Susan Sparkes, Lucas Sempé, MyMai Yungrattanachai, Sophie Witter   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

U.S. Multinational Corporations’ Initial Income‐Shifting Response to the TCJA

Journal of Corporate Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I find U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) responded to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 by increasing income shifted to foreign sources in the first two years following the effective date. Financially constrained MNCs increased income shifting more, while higher operational uncertainty MNCs increased income shifting less than other
Tyler P. Johnson
wiley   +1 more source

Electoral Reforms

, 2014
Varma proposes new political and electoral reforms for better, healthy, strong and much improved democracy to remove inequalities, corruption, unemployment and mis-governance. Varma’s political and electoral reforms are aimed at empowering the under privileged, the working class, rural and urban areas.
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Islamic Public Administration in Practice: The Taliban's “Gender Apartheid” Governance in Afghanistan

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the Taliban's post‐2021 governance model through the Islamic Public Administration (IPA) framework, focusing on justice, equality, and women's inclusion. It asks: (1) How does the Taliban's governance align with core IPA principles?
Parwiz Mosamim, Jean‐Patrick Villeneuve   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source