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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall +2 more
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Elections as an instrument for transition to democracy in the Czech Republic [PDF]
Annales 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
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
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Sfera Politicii, 2019 The parliamentary elections of November 2-9, 1919, were the first collective experience of democracy in the Romanian political space. It was based, after more than five decades of census electoral practice, on the mechanism of universal (male) voting ...
Alexandru Radu
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Fiscal Rules and the Opportunistic Behaviour of the Incumbent Politician: Evidence from Italian Municipalities [PDF]
Previous studies on electoral competition show that fiscal variables are manipulated by incumbent politicians in order to be re-elected. This phenomenon has been addressed by the literature on electoral budget cycle and, in a decentralised economy, by ...
David Bartolini, Raffaella Santolini
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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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CONSTITUIREA, ORGANIZAREA ȘI FUNCȚIONAREA PARLAMENTUL REPUBLICII MOLDOVA [PDF]
Buletinul Științific al Universității de Stat „B.P. Hasdeu” din Cahul: Științe Sociale, 2019 Parliamentarism as a form of government and political influence in studies of both historical and contemporary points of view is a subject of this presentation. Republic of Moldova is a unitary parliamentary representative democratic republic.
Ilie GÎRNEȚ
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Electoral rules and voter turnout [PDF]
The paper investigates the effect of electoral rules on voter turnout. It focuses on Italian municipalities, where voting schemes are differentiated by the size of the city: a single ballot system applies to municipalities with less than 15,000 ...
Guglielmo Barone, Guido de Blasio
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel +6 more
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Storable Votes: Giving Voice to Minority Preferences without Sacrificing Efficiency [PDF]
Wahlverhalten, Wahlsystem, Minderheit, Politische Partei, Voting behaviour, Electoral system, Minority, Political ...
Alessandra Casella +2 more
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