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, 2010 This thesis is an examination of the main issues Social Credit contended with while trying to succeed in New Zealand politics. Its historical and political analysis is in the context of the electoral system. The first section argues for and describes the
Calderwood, David James
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Steering Industrial Decarbonisation: Explaining OECD Policy Variation
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The ongoing rise in CO2 emissions driven by energy‐intensive industries highlights the urgent need for targeted policy interventions, with national strategies playing a crucial role in the low‐carbon transition. However, the factors that shape the ambition of industrial decarbonisation policies remain poorly understood.
Ebba Minas
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An emerging consensus calls for transformative climate governance. However, what instigates and sustains transformative pathways remains unclear. This study characterises the existence, quality and structural underpinnings of transformative governance capacities in local government climate change response in Aotearoa New Zealand, applying a ...
Gangadari K. Ranawaka +3 more
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Choosing Electoral Rules in the Presence of Corruption
Corruption is a problem that has been shown to adversely affect a country’s development. Recent studies have shown that a country’s electoral system can affect its corruption level.
Tavares, Samia
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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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Evolutionary dynamics on a regular networked structured and unstructured multi‐population
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract In this paper, we study collective decision‐making in a multi‐population framework, where groups of individuals represent whole populations that interact by means of a regular network. Each group consists of a number of players and every player can choose between two options.
Wouter Baar +2 more
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, 2018 Italy stands out among advanced industrialized democracies because of its frequency of major electoral reforms. In the postwar period, Italy has experienced four major electoral systems: the proportional representation (PR) system of the First Republic (1948–1992), mixed-member majoritarian (MMM, 1993–2005), and two varieties of PR with majority bonus (
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Local electoral rules and political participation [PDF]
The paper investigates the effect of local electoral rules on the political participation of the residents, as reflected in voter turnout. It focuses on Italy, where municipal voting schemes are differentiated by the size of the city: a single ballot ...
Guido De Blasio, Guglielmo Barone
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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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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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