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Intra-Party Democracy: Patterns of Change

Teoria Polityki
The paper presents the main trends in the evolution of intra-party democracy (IPD) since the mid-20th century, when parties criticized for becoming elitist and distant from their members and voters, started to introduce reforms in their internal organization. The changes, aimed at more inclusive solutions, were referred to as ‘democratization’. In this
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Beyond health protection: Estimating the impact of public health insurance on home‐based livestock raising in rural China

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Livestock often serves as self‐insurance against health shocks for rural households in developing countries. However, little is known about how public health insurance affects livestock production decisions. This paper fills the gap by examining the impact of China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) on household‐level livestock ...
Ran Li
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Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
The lawyer, politician, and diplomat George Brandis was the leading intellectual representative of moderate or “small‐l” liberalism in the contemporary Liberal Party. He criticised John Howard for an ad hoc balancing of liberalism and conservatism. Brandis believed the Liberal Party necessarily included conservatives, but to him their role was to be a ...
Geoffrey Robinson
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Networks of coercion: Military ties and civilian leadership challenges in China

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Civilian‐led coups are one of the most common routes to losing power in autocracies. How do authoritarian leaders secure themselves from civilian leadership challenges? We argue that autocrats differentiate civilian rivals in part by their social ties to the military.
Tyler Jost, Daniel Mattingly
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Decentralized propaganda in the era of digital media: The massive presence of the Chinese state on Douyin

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The rise of social media in the digital era poses unprecedented challenges to authoritarian regimes that aim to influence public attitudes and behaviors. To address these challenges, we argue that authoritarian regimes have adopted a decentralized approach to produce and disseminate propaganda on social media.
Yingdan Lu, Jennifer Pan, Xu Xu, Yiqing Xu   +3 more
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Third-party Program Evaluation by the Salam Institute for Peace and Justice [PDF]

, 2008
This summary shows the effectiveness of ICRD's efforts to facilitate reform of the madrasas of ...

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Intra-party Education and its Impact on Democracy

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015
AbstractThis paper scrutinizes the intra-party education of the political parties that hold a parliamentary group in the Turkish Grand National Assembly. These parties are the governing party Justice and Development Party (JDP), the major opposition party Republican Peoples Party (RPP), the ultra-nationalist party Nationalist Action Party (NAP) and the
Gökçe, Ali Fuat, Apari, Şengül, Gündüz, Berna   +2 more
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Complementarity in alliances: How strategic compatibility and hierarchy promote efficient cooperation in international security

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract How can defense alliances reap the efficiency gains of working together when coordination and opportunism costs are high? Although specializing as part of a collective comes with economic and functional benefits, states must bargain over the distribution of those gains and ensure the costs of collective action are minimized.
J. Andrés Gannon
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Change in migrants’ political attitudes: Acculturation and cosmopolitanization

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates change in international migrants’ political attitudes. It theorizes a novel attitudinal typology distinguishing polity‐specific attitudes influenced by national contexts and transnational attitudes forged by migratory experience. It applies the typology to four dimensions of political competition in contemporary Europe:
Eva Krejcova, Filip Kostelka, Nicolas Sauger   +2 more
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Evaluation of Parties and Coalitions After Parliamentary Elections [PDF]

Five leading German political parties and their coalitions are evaluated with regard to party manifestos and results of the 2005 parliamentary elections.
Andranik Tangian
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