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Local Political Leadership and the Modernisation of Local Government [PDF]
Local Government Studies, 2010 Abstract Political leadership has been a key element of central government's attempts to ‘modernise’ local government over the past decade, within a discourse that emphasised ‘strong’ and ‘visible’ leadership and the role of leaders and leadership in driving change within local authorities. In the context of such an approach, and also taking account of
Catherine Bochel, Hugh Bochel
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Women as mayors: the political representation of women in the leadership of Slovak municipalities after the municipal elections in the year 2010 [PDF]
Annales Scientia Politica, 2018 The paper analyses women’s representation at the local level in Slovakia, or at the level of all (almost three thousand) Slovak municipalities, respectively.
Pave Maškarinec
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The Local-National Gap in Intergroup Attitudes and Far-Right Underperformance in Local Elections
Frontiers in Political Science, 2021 The far right typically performs worse in local elections than in national ones. We propose that a key reason for this underperformance is the difference in how intergroup attitudes manifest and are informed in local and national settings.
Hege H. Bye +2 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Ascidian Ciona larvae initially show strong clockwise tail twisting, which is largely corrected during development. However, a small residual twist remains. This study shows that organized helical myofibrils in tail muscles mechanically stabilize this residual asymmetry, preventing complete restoration of bilateral symmetry and revealing how embryos ...
Yuki S. Kogure +3 more
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Local Politics in International Media
Ianna Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022 Background: Women constitute a large percentage of the voting public in Nigeria. Despite this, research on their political opinion and voting behaviour is limited.
Chidi John Ugwuanyi +2 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We present robust protocols for the preparation of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) incorporating either Salmonella smooth LPS or outer membrane vesicles (OMVs). We use a combination of quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM‐D) and fluorescence microscopy to both characterize the SLBs of various compositions and to probe their interactions ...
Hudson P. Pace +6 more
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Local climate policies in Germany. Challenges of governance and knowledge
Cogent Social Sciences, 2018 Measures and strategies for climate adaptation and mitigation on the local level have become more or less obligatory. However, local governments face epistemic and organisational uncertainties.
Karsten Zimmermann
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Public Participation in New Local Governance Spaces: The Case for Community Development in Local Strategic Partnerships [PDF]
, 2014 Research into public participation in local decision-making has increased over the past forty years, reflecting increased interest in the subject from academic, policy and practitioner perspectives.
Purcell, Martin +3 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Glioma cells mainly express the endothelin receptor EDNRB, while EDNRA is restricted to a perivascular tumor subpopulation. Endothelin signaling reduces glioma cell proliferation while promoting migration and a proneural‐to‐mesenchymal transition associated with poor prognosis. This pathway activates Ca2+, K+, ERK, and STAT3 signalings and is regulated
Donovan Pineau +36 more
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Religious Sentiments In Local Politics
Jurnal Politik, 2018 The rise of religious sentiments and identity politics in Indonesia is currently in critical phase. Indonesia is neither a Muslim nor a secular country, although it recognizes the existence of God in its first principle of state philosophical theory ...
Sugit Sanjaya Arjon
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