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Competing Principals in a Multinational State: Legislative Behavior in Imperial Austria, 1907–1914
ABSTRACT This article examines legislative behavior in the lower house of the Imperial Austrian Reichsrat, a historical legislature representing a multinational society. The coincidence of economic and center‐periphery cleavages in that democratizing state presents an excellent opportunity to examine the influence of multiple competing principals on ...
Philip J. Howe +2 more
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ABSTRACT When, how and why does farming become capitalist? This question has long shaped debates in agrarian studies and economic history. Although traditional analyses emphasize market dependency and competitive pressures, this paper argues for a shift in focus towards the diverse strategies of reproduction that farmers have employed in different ...
Markus Christian Hansen +1 more
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Abstract Britain pioneered parliamentarism and public broadcasting, yet for a long time this broadcasting revealed little about parliament. Parliament and its reporting have occupied a place of prominence in British historiography, yet this historiography still misses a crucial transnational piece of the puzzle.
Betto van Waarden
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Abstract A well‐established finding in the field of legislative behaviour is that parliamentary voting behaviour is nearly always strongly structured by the coalition‐opposition dynamic, even beyond the issues agreed on in the coalition agreement. Can parties break the mould of this coalition‐opposition division?
Thijs Vos +3 more
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History and current state of parliamentary oversight in Iraq
The phenomenon of Iraqi constitutionalism traditionally arouse skepticism among researchers. This is due not only to the historical difficulties faced by Iraqi constitutionalism, but also to the lack, according to researchers, of effective mechanisms for
Ammar Raad Ali Jihad
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Settler Colonialism and Parliamentary Democracy – Histories and Legacies*
Abstract In this introduction we make the case for a new understanding of the relationship between settler colonialism and the development of democratic governance. The concurrence of franchise reform in Europe with the establishment of parliaments in the settler colonies during the mid 19th century is usually seen as consolidating an exclusionary ...
David Thackeray, Amanda Behm
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Parliamentarism in Serbia after 2000 [PDF]
Pošto se da određenje parlamentarizma i opiše stanje parlamentarizma pod Miloševićem (1990-2000), u članku se iznose i razmatraju podaci o radu skupštine Srbije od 2001. do 2004. godine.
Slobodan Antonic, Antonić, Slobodan
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Party life in the Kingdom of Serbia at the end of 1902 and the beginning of 1903 [PDF]
The paper presents the life of political parties in the Kingdom of Serbia at the end of 1902 and the beginning of 1903. In an endeavour to strengthen his autocratic rule, King Aleksandar Obrenović dissolved the National Assembly elected during the ...
Pešić Miroslav
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Governos de Coalizão nas Democracias Presidencialistas e Parlamentaristas
Are government coalitions less frequent under presidentialism than under parliamentarism? The only difference be w e the two systems is that unscheduled elections are held under parliamentarism in those situations in which under presidentialism a ...
Cheibub José Antonio +2 more
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Rappresentanza rivoluzionaria: rivoluzioni e istituzioni politiche in Iran e Turchia nel XX secolo [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to analyse the history of representative institutions in Iran and Turkey and their links with the revolutions laying behind the Nation-building processes of these two countries in a comparative perspective.
Filippo Benedetti Milincovich +1 more
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