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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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The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rising numbers of refugees, prolonged displacement and reduced funding have led to challenges in terms of how to address their healthcare needs, with different approaches taken, ranging from parallel mechanisms to arrangements that are integrated (to different extents) within the national health system. Increasingly, global frameworks call for
Maria Paola Bertone +13 more
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Holding out on restructuring negotiations: A legal analysis over Finnish and Swedish legislation
International Insolvency Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how Finnish and Swedish restructuring laws create opportunities for creditors to hold out on restructuring negotiations. Using Anthony Casey's new bargaining theory and the traditional creditors' bargain model as analytical frames, the study argues that holdouts arise when ex ante rights – particularly security interests,
Anssi Kärki
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Law and Justice are likely to come out ahead in the European Parliament elections in Poland [PDF]
, 2014 May’s European Parliament elections in Poland will come toward the end of the current parliamentary cycle, with the country due to hold national elections in 2015.
Szczerbiak, Aleks
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Brexit and Its Impact on EU Financial Markets
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of Brexit on volatility spillovers across the EU countries. We introduce a Brexit intensity measure that assigns an intensity score reflective of the financial markets' reaction to the events that occurred as Brexit negotiations began to unfold.
Marwan Izzeldin +3 more
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Alternative Electoral Systems and the 2005 Ethiopian Parliamentary Election
African Studies Quarterly, 2009 What if an alternative set of electoral rules had been used to govern elections when an authoritarian regime introduces its first real competitive elections?
John Ishiyama
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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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Induced abortion in the world: 3. In search of a minimum common ground
International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.Abstract The rising worldwide trend toward legalization of termination of pregnancy has been accompanied by increased polarization around abortion. Two opposite broad coalitions emerged from this confrontation, generally known as the “pro‐life” and “pro‐choice” movements. The basic issue for pro‐life advocates is that the protection of “innocent, human
Giuseppe Benagiano +4 more
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Parliamentary Voting Procedures: Agenda Control, Manipulation, and Uncertainty [PDF]
, 2015 We study computational problems for two popular parliamentary voting procedures: the amendment procedure and the successive procedure. While finding successful manipulations or agenda controls is tractable for both procedures, our real-world experimental
Bredereck, Robert +3 more
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