Burma's Transition to "Disciplined Democracy": Abdication or Institutionalization of Military Rule? [PDF]
Direct military rule has become rare in world politics. Today, most military regimes have either given way to some form of democracy or been transformed into another form of authoritarianism.
Marco Bünte
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The battle for Zimbabwe in 2013: from polarisation to ambivalence [PDF]
, 2015 On the face of it, the triumph of Robert Mugabe and ZANU(PF) in the 2013 elections came as a shock, not least to opposition MDC activists. However, after a period of introspection, many have begun to construct a coherent and wide-ranging account of the ...
Chan +12 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This study demonstrates how optimizing laser power, scanning speed, and hatching distance in laser powder bed fusion can boost the productivity of Inconel 718 manufacturing by up to 29% while maintaining mechanical integrity. The work delivers a validated process window and cost–time analysis, offering industry‐ready guidelines for efficient additive ...
Amir Behjat +7 more
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Women's human rights in Russia: outmoded battlegrounds, or new sites of contentious politics? [PDF]
, 2015 This article draws on three pieces of qualitative research conducted with women in provincial Russia over the last 10 years. The first section analyses women's discussions of their everyday rights claims and their engagement in “consentful” forms of ...
Turbine, Vikki
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A Knowledge‐Based Approach for Understanding and Managing Additive Manufacturing Data
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Additive manufacturing processes generate a large amount of data. Effectively managing, understanding, and retrieving information from this data remains a major challenge. Therefore, we propose an ontology‐based approach to integrate heterogeneous data, enable semantic queries, and support decision‐making.
Mina Abd Nikooie Pour +5 more
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Political Institutions and Distributive Politics in Japan : Getting Along with the Opposition [PDF]
This paper analyses distributive policy-making in Japan using a natural experimental situation from August 1993 to March 1995. During this period, the partisan makeup of the ruling coalition in the Lower House dramatically changed without dissolution of ...
Yusaku Horiuchi
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Divisive Politics and Accountability [PDF]
, 2011 The paper analyzes a political accountability game with an electorate of 'partisan' and 'independent' voters. It is shown that politicians have a strategic incentive to engage in 'divisive politics', that is, to force some independent voters to take ...
Kiss, Áron
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Interaction of Ladle Slag With Varying SiO2 Content and Recyclate‐Based MgO–C Refractories
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Ladle slags (CaO/Al2O3 = 1) with 1–20 wt% SiO2 were investigated in contact with industrial MgO–C refractories fabricated from fresh magnesia and 50 wt% recyclate. The sessile drop method at 1600°C reveals intensive gas formation, delayed slag infiltration in recyclate‐based samples, and, under high‐SiO2 slag, formation of a dense MgAl2O4‐rich ...
Anton Yehorov +6 more
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Politics and the geographic allocation of public funds in a semi-democracy: The case of Ghana, 1996-2004. [PDF]
The body of literature on purely democratic countries can sometimes fail to explain the behavior of government in semi-democratic African countries. Empirical and theoretical political economic papers and that public funds target ruling party supporters ...
André, Pierre, Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine
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The European Union, Tunisia and Egypt: norms versus interests - thoughts and recommendations. EUMA Paper Vol. 8, No. 2, February 2011 [PDF]
, 2011 Tunisia and Egypt are two very different situations due to economic and geopolitical reasons. Egypt is a central actor in the Israeli-Palestinian discussions.3 It also controls the Suez Canal, one of the main world maritime transit hubs.
Larive., Maxime
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