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Exhaustion Experiences in Junior Athletes:The Importance of Motivation and Self - Control Competencies

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
Quality of motivation, self-control competencies, as well as past performance experience influence sport participation outcomes in developing athletes.
Gro Jordalen, Pierre-Nicolas Lemyre, Natalie Durand-Bush   +2 more
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Closer or More Distant? The Congruence Between Elites and Voters on Swiss–EU Relations

Politics and Governance
Elite-citizen congruence is central to normative theories of representation. This article compares the preferences of Swiss elites and citizens about relations with the EU, examining whether patterns of elite-citizen divergence documented in EU member ...
Lukas Lauener, Laurent Bernhard
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Local interest groups and the perception of power in Spanish cities

Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 2018
Studies on local interest groups have generated a considerable number of theories on urban power that have eventually become the basis of far-reaching approaches on democracy and collective action.
Joaquim M. Molins, Iván Medina
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The Weberian Foundations of Modern Elite Theory and Democratic Elitism

, 2012
Max Weber's portrayal of modern elftes shows clear proximity to 'classical elite theory,' modern 'elite perspective,' and 'democratic elitism.' This portrayal - stressing power concentration in the state apparata, legitimacy of rule, centrality of leadership groups, and the capacity of these groups to form cohesive power actors - anticipates many ...
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Everyday Narratives on the Ethiopian Civil War (2020 2022): Insights from North Wollo

Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities
This study examines the everyday narratives and experiences of local communities in North Wollo during the Ethiopian civil war (2020-2022), utilizing insights from theories of ethnicity.
Theodros Fisseha, Bamlaku Tadesse
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Migrations, Citizenships, and the Right and Choice to Play for a National Football Team with a Focus on the Croatian National Team

Dve Domovini
Contemporary national football teams mirror numerous migration processes. The research was focused on the formation of football teams, examples of migrations of national team members, and changes in international rules (civil and sports citizenship ...
Vladimir Iveta, Marijeta Rajković Iveta
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The Elitism of Bertrand de Jouvenel. A Reinterpretation of Jouvenel’s Political Theory Through the Elite theory

Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2013
This paper aims to reassess Bertrand de Jouvenel’s political theory from an elitist perspective. Even if Bertrand de Jouvenel is commonly regarded as a liberal philosopher, I will however compare his thought with that of two main elitist thinkers: Gaetano Mosca and Roberto Michels.
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Disraeli and South America

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
This article asks how Disraeli thought about South America. It argues that his constitutional theories, and his schemes of global politics, both dealt seriously with issues raised by the region, and especially by Spanish America.
Alex Middleton
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The Three Seas Initiative as a geopolitical project: The policies and perspectives of Poland and Croatia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies
The Three Seas Initiative (TSI) is a geopolitical and geoeconomic regional cooperation project among 13 EU Member States in Central and Eastern Europe, spanning from the Baltic to the Adriatic and Black Seas.
Petar Kurecic, Krzystof Sliwinski
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Introduction. Elite Theory: Philosophical Challenges [PDF]

Topoi, 2022
Damele, Giovanni, Campos, Andre Santos
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