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When’s the Party (or Coalition)? Agenda-Setting in a Highly Fragmented, Decentralized Legislature

Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2016
This paper examines committee behavior in Colombia to determine whether parties or coalitions exert agenda-setting powers despite the fact that the formal rules seemingly create little incentive for cooperation.
Mónica Pachón, Gregg B. Johnson
doaj  

VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
wiley   +1 more source

Herramienta 1: Áreas, Líneas y Protocolo de Investigación del Instituto de Estudios Democráticos.

, 2020
Las Áreas, Líneas y Protocolo de Investigación son el resultado de un proceso de consulta a actores políticos, sociedad civil y académicos nacionales e internacionales con el apoyo de la Fundación Konrad Adenauer.
Espinosa Mora, Yaritza Idalia, Tribunal Electoral de Panamá, TE   +1 more
core  

Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
wiley   +1 more source

Quid Pro Quo? Private Information Flows in Shareholder Activism: Evidence from Mutual Fund Families

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper hypothesizes that information flows from target firms to large shareholders during activist campaigns and that these flows have governance consequences. Focusing on actively managed mutual fund families, we find that informed trading by large‐holding fund families increases during activist campaigns relative to smaller‐holding fund ...
EUNJEE KIM, HAI PHAM
wiley   +1 more source

Defense against small parties: electoral reforms and their impact on Tunisia's electoral system since the Arab Spring. [PDF]

Z Vgl Polit, 2022
Ali H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the plastic crisis : How Commitments Can Lead to Polycentric Governance. [PDF]

EMBO Rep
Braun M, Hornidge AK.
europepmc   +1 more source

Measuring the Volatility of the Political agenda in Public Opinion and News Media. [PDF]

Public Opin Q, 2021
Camargo CQ, John P, Margetts HZ, Hale SA.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Guardians Under Siege: Civil Society Access and Reform of the UN Human Rights Council

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how restrictions on civil society participation at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) undermine the institution's effectiveness. Through stakeholder interviews and analysis of recent developments, we show that civil society engagement does not merely fulfil a democratic aspiration, but it is an operational ...
Inés M. Pousadela, Samuel King
wiley   +1 more source