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Transparency in Parliamentary Voting [PDF]
We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency affects the voting behavior of its members. Until 2013, the Council of States (Ständerat) had voted by a show of hands. While publicly
Benesch, Christine +2 more
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It's the occupation, stupid! Explaining candidates' success in low-information local elections [PDF]
We analyze the effects of personal characteristics of 4239 political candidates on their performance in local elections in Germany. Our results show that a candidate's occupation plays a decisive role.
Mechtel, Mario
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An Approach to Proper Name Tagging for German
This paper presents an incremental method for the tagging of proper names in German newspaper texts. The tagging is performed by the analysis of the syntactic and textual contexts of proper names together with a morphological analysis.
Thielen, Christine
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Are Immigrant-Origin Candidates Penalized Due to Ingroup Favoritism or Outgroup Hostility? [PDF]
Portmann L, Stojanović N.
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Partisan veto players in Australia, Denmark, Finland and Germany: Government status and legislative behavior [PDF]
In parliamentary systems, parties compete for votes and offices in the electoral arena but in many systems they also cooperate in the legislative arena.
Bräuninger, Thomas, Ganghof, Steffen
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Commodity risk assessment of Corylus avellana and Corylus colurna plants from Serbia. [PDF]
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH) +23 more
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European Corporate Governance Reform and the German Party Paradox. CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 03.1, 2003 [PDF]
This paper addresses the current discussion on links between party politics and production regimes. Why do German Social Democrats opt for more corporate governance liberalization than the CDU although, in terms of the distributional outcomes of such ...
Hopner, Martin
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German Pacifism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries [PDF]
The article discusses recent work on German pacifist movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While many books and articles offer a biographical perspective on key pacifists, other studies are interested in the contributions of functionally ...
Ziemann, B.
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