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Experiments in the laboratory of populism: the 2018 Hungarian election [PDF]

, 2018
Parliamentary elections will be held in Hungary on 8 April. Theresa Gessler and Johannes Wachs preview the vote, noting that although the governing Fidesz party has a sizeable polling lead, the contest promises to be closer than the last parliamentary ...
Gessler, Theresa, Wachs, Johannes
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
wiley   +1 more source

Elections for the European Parliament in Romania. The Exception of the 2019 Elections

Sfera Politicii, 2019
Since joining the European Union in 2007, Romania has organized four editions of the elections for the European Parliament. The article provides to the scholars the relevant electoral data on the four European Parliamentary elections, underlining the ...
Alexandru Radu, Daniel Buti
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Polskie wybory parlamentarne i referendum z 15 października 2023 r.

Politeja
THE OCTOBER 15TH 2023 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AND REFERENDUM IN POLAND: ISSUES AND CONCERNS REGARDING CONCURRENT VOTING Poland does not have much experience in holding nationwide referendums.
Magdalena Musiał-Karg, Fernando Casal Bértoa   +1 more
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Electoral Politics in the Context of Separatism and Political Divergence: An Analysis of 2009 Parliamentary elections in Jammu & Kashmir

South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2009
The paper analyses the 2009 Parliamentary elections in Jammu and Kashmir in the context of the conflict situation of the last two decades. The separatist sentiment, the paper argues, remains ascendant, even though mainstream politics (that had become ...
Rekha Chowdhary
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Poland\u27s Ex--Communists: From Pariahs to Establishment Players [PDF]

, 2003
The Polish United Workers\u27 Party (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza [PZPR]) suffered what seemed to be a terminal blow in 1989. In elections rigged so that the communists and their old allies were guaranteed 65 percent of the seats in the main ...
Curry, Jane Leftwich
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Blocked and “Unblocked” Learning: Structural Factors That Impede and Enable Evidence‐Informed Policymaking

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses a critical issue in evidence‐informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It discusses the concept of “blocked learning,” where individual‐level learning fails to scale up to organizational and policy levels, thus impeding ...
Thenia Vagionaki
wiley   +1 more source

Winning Legitimacy and Dodging Blame: How Government Communication Shapes Media Sentiments and Responsibility Attribution in Consensus Democracies

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do governments' discursive credit‐claiming and blame‐deflection strategies shape perceived policy legitimacy in times of crisis? Despite the importance of legitimacy in conflictual times, systematic analyses of officeholders' credit‐claiming and blame‐deflection strategies and their effect on perceived legitimacy are still rare.
Céline Honegger
wiley   +1 more source

Elections in Latvia: status quo for minorities remains? [PDF]

Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 2010
This article comments on the results of the recent parliamentary elections in Latvia and related implications for ethnic minorities. The authors examine in detail the pre-election programs, follow the developments before and after the elections, and come
Tatyana Bogushevitch, Aleksejs Dimitrovs
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Policy Networks and Policy Entrepreneurship in the EU: Explaining Structural Policy Change in Pharmaceutical Innovation Incentives and Health Technology Assessment

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy process research has excelled in explaining structural policy change within national settings, but extensions and applications to the EU level have long proven challenging for scholars. Given that the EU is currently experiencing its longest period of Treaty stability since the 1980s—having evolved into a sui generis political system ...
Vassilis Karokis‐Mavrikos
wiley   +1 more source