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Women in local government: Moving in from the margins
Administration, 2015 This article presents a descriptive overview of women’s participation in the elected and administrative structures of local government in the Republic of Ireland.
Buckley Fiona, Hofman Caroline
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Contrarian Deterministic Effect: the "Hung Elections Scenario"
, 2003 A contrarian is someone who deliberately decides to oppoe the prevailing choice of others. The Galam model of two state opinion dynamicsincorporates agent updates by a single step random grouping in which all participants adopt the opinion of their ...
Corcos +15 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective We examined whether 18 months of strength training in individuals with knee varus alignment and medial tibiofemoral osteoarthritis (OA) reduced knee joint loads during walking compared to an attention control group. Methods This study was a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial that compared the effects of strength training to a ...
Stephen P. Messier +12 more
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Business taxes and the electoral cycle [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to assess whether politicians manipulate the timing of tax rate changes in a strategic way to maximize reelection prospects.
Foremny, Dirk, Riedel, Nadine
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Voting and Values: Grassroots Elections in Rural and Urban China
Politics and Governance, 2018 Authoritarian leaders often claim that they promote democratic institutions such as elections and democratic values. In China, the central propaganda often promotes the right and duty of citizens to vote in local elections as well as the importance of ...
John James Kennedy +2 more
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Voting under threat: Evidence from the 2020 French local elections. [PDF]
Eur J Polit Econ, 2022 Leromain E, Vannoorenberghe G.
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Universal size effects for populations in group-outcome decision-making problems
, 2013 Elections constitute a paradigm of decision-making problems that have puzzled experts of different disciplines for decades. We study two decision-making problems, where groups make decisions that impact only themselves as a group.
Borghesi, Christian +3 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a heterogenous inflammatory condition with widely varying global prevalence estimates. The frequency of SLE in the general population of Australia has been reported to be notably lower than contemporary estimates in countries such as the United States or United Kingdom, at 19 to 39 per 100,000 as opposed ...
Lucinda Roper +7 more
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Post-election survey data: Local democracy and the 2018 local elections in the Czech Republic. [PDF]
Data Brief, 2021 Šaradín P +5 more
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A Citizen's Guide to Redistricting [PDF]
, 2008 Provides a detailed overview of states' rules and processes for redrawing federal, state, and local legislative districts. Illustrates possible motives behind redistricting, effects on elections, implications for legislation, and reform ...
Bethany Foster, Justin Levitt
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