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Verfassungspolitische Alternative zur Entflechtungspolitik
Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2005 The Commission on Federalism of the Lower and Upper Houses of the German Parliament developed numerous concrete suggestions for a reform of the German federal state.
Artur Benz
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Conflict Resolution in the 21st Century: A South Asian Perspective
Pacific Focus, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Conflicts in the contemporary international system have increasingly shifted from state‐centric power struggles to deeply rooted human needs crises. This study applies John Burton's Human Needs Theory to explain the persistence of the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan, focusing on the deprivation of identity, recognition, and ...
Hafeez Ullah Khan
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Political Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Politicians' personality is believed to play a central role in their electoral success. It is unclear, however, how important different traits are to voters and how the impact of personality compares to that of other well‐studied individual characteristics of politicians, such as gender, age, and political experience.
Thomas Bergeron +4 more
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Review and Analysis of Philippine Federalism
Diversitas JournalThis study was conducted to provide a comprehensive review of the structure, quality, operations, and readiness of a federalist government from the perspectives of various columnists and editorials.
Andres Hinayas +3 more
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Openness as a political commitment
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
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Coalition Opportunity Structures and Advocacy Coordination in Consensus and Majoritarian Democracies
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on advocacy coalitions suggests that belief homophily—the tendency of actors to coordinate based on shared policy beliefs—drives coalition formation. However, coalition opportunity structures, which are shaped by institutional contexts, may influence the extent to which belief homophily matters.
Keiichi Satoh +7 more
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Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 1999 This paper will develop three themes. First, I show that the democratization, federalism, and nationalism literatures have been developed in relatively mutual isolation and that we can only make more meaningful and powerful statements about comparative ...
Stepan Alfred
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Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We use grid‐group cultural theory (CT) to specify underspecified aspects of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). Our theoretical synthesis of CT and the ACF provides, first, an exhaustive typology of policy actors and their cultural cognitive biases that entail, guide, and constrain policy core beliefs about problem definitions and ...
Metodi Sotirov, Brendon Swedlow
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THE FISCAL FEDERALISM AND THE GOOD ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE IN EUROPEAN UNION [PDF]
Global Economic Observer, 2013 The research objectives aim to analyze the advantages and the disadvantages of the fiscal federalism, in order to identify the model of economic governance that will increase the quality and efficiency in public intervention.
Alina Ligia Dumitrescu
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Topics as Outcomes: Modeling the Influence of Intergovernmental Grants on Policy Diffusion
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Intergovernmental grants stimulate the diffusion of policy reforms, as the federal government provides states with a financial incentive to adopt policies aligned with federal priorities. Less is known about the extent to which these grants also stimulate horizontal diffusion across states.
NaLette Brodnax, Sarah James
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