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Shaping expectations, losing flexibility: A study of CEO promises as strategic communication tools
Abstract Research Summary CEO promises are powerful but understudied communication tools. We develop a dual‐mechanism framework theorizing that while CEO promises elevate stakeholder expectations, they simultaneously constrain strategic flexibility. We argue that CEO promise‐making is shaped by two competing pressures: making more promises when the ...
Majid Majzoubi +2 more
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Local elections and democratic backsliding: pragmatic politics in Southeast Asia
Democratic backsliding is commonly studied on a national scale, but local elections now define the lines of democratic strength or weakness in Southeast Asia.
Sumit Kumar Pandey +2 more
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Three-candidate election strategy. [PDF]
Brody DC, Yuasa T.
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Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
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In the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. election, the boundary between activism and extremism blurred, with election officials reporting violent threats and false accusations of election fraud. From a symbolic interactionist perspective, these attacks provide a unique lens for examining the consequences of being falsely labeled a criminal.
Steven Windisch
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Party Organizations and Legislative Turnover
Legislative turnover is a crucial topic for parliamentary studies. The breadth and frequency of the parliamentary class’ renewal are indicators of both elite circulation and legislatures’ institutionalization in parliamentary democracies.
Eugenio Salvati, Michelangelo Vercesi
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FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY WITHIN AN UNSTABLE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT [PDF]
It is hypothesised that the economic and political environments from Romania are characterized by instability. Also, election cycles represent a major source of volatility for economic policies, particularly for fiscal policy.
Tudor CIUMARA
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Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
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Associative issue ownership in a highly fragmented multiparty context: The Netherlands (2021). [PDF]
van der Meer T, Damstra A.
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Abstract The forthcoming general election will be the most consequential electoral contest for the Republic of Ireland in a century. The polity is situated in truly novel territory with the potential for an historic first: the incoming of a Sinn Féin‐led, left‐wing government.
Chris Ó Rálaigh
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