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Political Party and Party System Institutionalisation in Southeast Asia: A Comparison of Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand [PDF]
It is generally acknowledged that a higher degree of party and party system institutionali-sation is positively correlated with the consolidation of democracy. It is, thus, useful to compare different levels and types of institutionalisation.
Andreas Ufen
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Trade union mobilisation and democratic institutionalisation in the Republic of Niger
Review of African Political Economy, 2019 The article examines the effect of union mobilisation on democratisation in the Republic of Niger between 1990 and 2010. It focuses on the Union des syndicats des travailleurs du Niger (USTN), a legacy umbrella union for public sector workers. The effect
Sebastian Elischer
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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines how an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expert mission for technical assistance in the late 1950s to Greece was effectively transformed into a mission to achieve the IAEA′s central objective: to consolidate its position as the leading global authority on radiation protection. The study focuses on the work of Alfred
Loukas Freris
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Institutionalising ELSA in the moment of breakdown? [PDF]
Life Sciences, Society and Policy, 2014 This article discusses outcomes of a dialogue conference on 'The road ahead for ELSA in Norway: Issues of quality, influence and network cooperation' held in Oslo in December 2012. Norwegian researchers in the field of ethical, legal and social aspects of technologies (ELSA) were invited to discuss conceptual and strategic issues, as well as the setup ...
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Being a leader or being the leader: The evolution of institutionalised hierarchy [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Human social hierarchy has the unique characteristic of existing in two forms. Firstly, as an informal hierarchy where leaders and followers are implicitly defined by their personal characteristics, and secondly, as an institutional hierarchy where leaders and followers are explicitly appointed by group decision. Although both forms can reduce the time
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Does National Culture Drive the Value Relevance of Nonfinancial Disclosure?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to investigate the association between national culture and the value relevance of nonfinancial disclosure provided by listed firms in Germany, Spain, France, and Italy from 2018 to 2023. The results of Hierarchical Linear Model regressions show that, in countries where the national culture is characterized by greater ...
Raffaela Casciello +2 more
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What makes urban governance co-productive? Contradictions in the current debate on co-production [PDF]
, 2018 Following a number of prominent concepts in urban planning, like participatory planning or self-help housing, co-production has started to gain momentum in the global South context. While it is has been long discussed as a means of service provision, the
Galuszka, Jakub
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The Institutionalisation of Power Revisited: Presidential Term Limits in Africa
, 2017 In Africa, a seemingly growing number of attempts by presidents to overcome or abrogate term limits, or make them otherwise ineffective, has ignited a debate about the significance of constitutional engineering, and its implications for the rule of law ...
D. Tull, Claudia Simons
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The Domestic Institutionalisation of Human Rights: An Introduction
Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 2019 This article aims to explore recent developments in the ‘domestic institutionalisation’ of human rights. We argue that the trend towards ‘domestic institutionalisation’ has inspired renewed attention to the importance of national-level institutions ...
Steven L. B. Jensen +2 more
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