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From Laggard to Leader: Central and Eastern Europe's (CEE) Women Presidents and Prime Ministers

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 53, Issue 1, February 2025.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes women executives (presidents and prime ministers) in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Specific questions posed include: How successful have CEE countries been in promoting women to executive positions? What conditions facilitate women's executive presence in the region?
Farida Jalalzai, Meg Rincker
wiley   +1 more source

Party life in the Kingdom of Serbia at the end of 1902 and the beginning of 1903 [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu
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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The peril of parliamentarism? : executive–legislative relations and the transition to democracy from electoral authoritarian rule [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Why do some electoral authoritarian regimes survive for decades while others become democracies? This article explores the impact of constitutional structures on democratic transitions from electoral authoritarianism.
HIGASHIJIMA, Masaaki, KASUYA, Yuko
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Multilayered international parliamentarism: the case of EU-Brazil relations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Challenging the predominant scholarly focus on international parliamentary institutions as the sole and sufficient object of inquiry into the global role of parliaments, this article argues that international interparliamentary relations do not occur ...
Jancic, Davor
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Introducing ‘ministerial politics’: Analyzing the role and crucial redistributive impact of individual ministries in policy‐making

open access: yesGovernance, Volume 38, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract Policy‐making is a complex business. While scholars have studied the politics of policy‐making for decades, we know surprisingly little about the role of individual ministries. We argue that and why individual ministries crucially shape policies' content, particularly their distributive profiles. We explain that it matters whether for example,
Julian L. Garritzmann, Katrijn Siderius
wiley   +1 more source

History and current state of parliamentary oversight in Iraq

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Law
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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German Politics in Times of Crises: The Success of the Post‐Merkel Conservatives in the 2025 Federal Election

open access: yes
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 63, Issue S1, Page 224-236, November 2025.
Manès Weisskircher
wiley   +1 more source

Capitals as bad equilibria

open access: yesThe American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Volume 83, Issue 5, Page 947-954, November 2024.
Abstract Throughout the recent pandemic, governments used digital video technologies to facilitate social distancing during political meetings. In addition to enabling social distancing, a theoretical advantage of virtual political governance is that it has the potential to mitigate the hierarchical administrative relationship between capitals and ...
Ådne Meling
wiley   +1 more source

Types and Indices of Democratic Regimes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Today democracy is seen as the only legitimate form of government almost all over the world. That it can be institutionalized differently leads to the question which kind of democracy might be better or worse.
Fuchs, Dieter
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Crafting political institutions in Africa : electoral systems and systems of government in Rwanda and Zambia compared [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Scholars of institutional design attribute large importance to the choice of new institutions. The comparative analysis of how Rwanda and Zambia crafted their new electoral systems and the systems of government regards procedural, structural and rational
Stroh, Alexander
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