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Mapping the Perceived Importance of Actors in Social Policy Accountability Across Welfare State Regimes: An Assessment Made by Academic Experts

Politics &Policy, Volume 53, Issue 4, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of a range of actors in social policy accountability across different welfare regimes, with a focus on Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, and Spain. Using a survey conducted with academic experts in these four countries, we examine the perceived importance attributed to political institutions, public bodies, and ...
Ixchel Pérez‐Durán, Joaquín Rozas‐Bugueño   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modernidad institucional y cambios en la función parlamentaria

Cuestiones Constitucionales, 2002
En el artículo se analiza el papel actual de los parlamentos a la luz de las funciones que éstos realizan y cómo la complejidad en el manejo de los asuntos públicos han provocado cambios en la competencia tradicional de las instituciones ...
Laura Valencia Escamilla
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The Impact of Institutional and Financial Constraints on Party Behaviour in Local Politics

Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 287-306, June 2025.
Abstract Political parties are not free to choose which issues to focus on in parliament. At the national level, it is mostly economic and societal problem pressures which impact parties' issue attention. In this paper, we argue that at lower levels of multilevel governance systems, parties are additionally limited by institutional and financial ...
Martin Gross, Dominic Nyhuis, Sebastian Block, Jan A. Velimsky   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The other side of platform politics. Law‐making and online participatory democracy in the Five Star Movement

Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 14-33, March 2025.
Abstract Between 2013 and 2021, the Italian Five Star Movement implemented an advanced tool, Lex Eletti, to enhance citizens' online participation in law‐making. Elected representatives had to present their draft bills on the party's platform before introducing them in Parliament, allowing ordinary party members to discuss them and suggest ...
Filippo Tronconi, Francesco Bailo
wiley   +1 more source

Same money, different impact? The curving effect of European Structural and Investment Funds on EU support in Spain (1990–2019)

European Policy Analysis, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 54-74, Winter 2025.
Abstract European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) engender European Union (EU) support in generating economic growth, but their effect is conditional on individual European identity and educational background. This study investigates whether the positive impact of ESIF spending on EU attitudes also depends on the alignment of funding with the ...
Joel Cantó, Javier Baraibar, Javier Arregui   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Canadian Democracy at Risk? A Wakeup Call From the Perspective of English‐Speaking Citizens

Politics &Policy, Volume 53, Issue 1, February 2025.
ABSTRACT At first glance, Canada is a resilient democracy. It has so far resisted international trends of democratic decline, it has not had any major populist upheavals aside from the Freedom Convoy in 2022, and no extremist parties are in parliament. However, if we look at public opinion data, we find widespread democratic disillusionment.
Daniel Stockemer, Valere Gaspard
wiley   +1 more source

Spain: Political Developments and Data in 2023

European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 460-480, December 2024.
Abstract The year 2023 was marked by a dense and turbulent political period. The country faced local and regional elections, snap elections and the reformulation of the left‐wing coalition government. Spain also chaired the Council of the European Union during the second semester.
ANA MAR FERNÁNDEZ‐PASARÍN, ASBEL BOHIGUES   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can(‘t) have it all? Parents in the Swiss Parliament

Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 407-427, December 2024.
Abstract Although a large share of parliamentarians are parents, we know little about how parenthood affects legislative activities and careers of parliamentarians. Children cost time and energy and thus may impact legislative behavior and the possibilities to excel in the legislature, e.g. by obtaining higher positions.
Elena Frech, Stefanie Bailer, Sarah Bütikofer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fundamentos jurídicos internacionales para la suspensión de un estado parte del MERCOSUR.

Revista Jurídica Mario Alario D'filippo, 2017
El Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR), nace a la luz del Tratado de Asunción del 26 de marzo de 1991, para coordinar políticas sociales y macroeconómicas entre los países suramericanos; se creó con cuatro Estados Partes-Fundacionales: Brasil, Argentina ...
Oscar Manuel Ariza Orozco, Judith Eugenia Herrera Hernández   +1 more
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Change from Above or Pressure from Below? The Diffusion of Cannabis Reform in Latin America

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 43, Issue 5, Page 347-361, November 2024.
What explains variation in the adoption of cannabis regulation reforms, both for medical and recreational purposes, across Latin America? This article argues that social mobilisation is essential to understand where debates for reform emerge and become stronger.
Angélica Durán‐Martínez, Connor Pennell   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source