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Engineering mayors and urban carbon governance: evidence from China [PDF]

Carbon Balance and Management
Under China’s “dual carbon” goals, local officials bear primary responsibility for reducing carbon emissions within their jurisdictions. This paper investigates whether mayors’ professional backgrounds are associated with better performance in achieving ...
Lyubing Feng, Shirong Zeng, Sai Wang
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London and the towns of England in 1350–1370: Socio-economic aspect of their relations [PDF]

Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: История. Международные отношения, 2022
The article examines the directions and forms of socio-economic interaction between London and provincial towns of England in 1350– 1370 based on the material of the original sources. It is shown that the main sphere in their relationship was trade,
Chernova, Larisa Nikolayevna
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Politics as a Vocation? The Impact of the Remuneration of Local Representatives on the Electoral Competition

Sociologický Časopis, 2021
This article examines the impact that the remuneration of municipal representatives has on the political competition in the Czech Republic. Municipal representatives can perform their office either full time (an 'engaged' representative) or part time (a '
Milan Školník, Michael Haman
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Criminological conceptions of public anti-corruption prosecutors regarding corruption committed by mayors in Peru

Sortuz, 2023
Subjectivity influences the interpretation of anti-corruption regulations; therefore, this objective of the study was to identify conceptions among public prosecutors regarding corruption in local governments.
Ernesto Cabral, Aracely Diaz
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The Guterres Disarmament Agenda and the Challenge of Constructing a Global Regime for Weapons

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2020
On 24 May 2018, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres launched his new “disarmament agenda” in an address at the University of Geneva.
Randy Rydell
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Municipal investment expenditures by pork-barrel mayors: evidence from a transition economy

Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2022
The focus of this study is electoral accounting practices employed by mayors in municipalities in a selected, exemplary region in a post-socialist country – the Lodz region in Central Poland.
Leśniewska-Napierała Katarzyna, Napierała Tomasz   +1 more
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O banquete dos prefeitos de 1900

Confins, 2023
The “Mayors' Banquet”, held in Paris on 22 September 1900 to coincide with the 1900 Universal Exhibition, was attended by more than 20,000 of the more than 36,000 municipalities in France at the time.
Confins
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Kasnodon Ukraine: History/Culture/Presumptions and Helping Developing Nations Move Forward [PDF]

SocioEconomic Challenges, 2021
This article chronicles some of my work in Ukraine in the late 90’s until 2006 especially in the Donbas Region of Ukraine. This was a program funded by USAID through the US-Ukraine Foundation to promote democratic development in cities in Ukraine by ...
R. Scott Colson, Esq.
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La multinacionalidad en el campo de la defensa

Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, 2000
El concepto de Nuevo Orden Mundial marca más la obsolescencia del orden bipolar para articular las relaciones internacionales de posguerra fría que la existencia de un nuevo orden alternativo.
José Manuel García Sieiro
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Clientelism, Turnout and Incumbents’ Performance in Chilean Local Government Elections

Social Sciences, 2022
Parties and their leaders are linked programmatically and non-programmatically with citizens, incentivising the latter to vote in elections and seeking to influence their choices.
Mauricio Morales, Fabián Belmar
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