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Serbia’s latest election is entirely unnecessary [PDF]
, 2016 On 17 January, Serbia’s Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vučić, called for early elections to be held in April, despite the country’s next election not being due until 2018. Florian Bieber assesses why new elections have been called.
Bieber, Florian
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable debt bond is an emerging instrument aiming at providing companies and governments with extra resources for financing social and environmental policies and attempting to make progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Regional governments in Spain have issued sustainable bonds in recent years to finance different spending ...
Alberto Turnes +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho +2 more
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Central Bank Digital Currencies, Financial Inclusion, and Privacy: A Normative Perspective
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are a digital form of a nation's money, issued by its central bank. As opposed to other forms of digital money, such as electronic bank balances or cryptocurrencies, they are centrally managed legal tender.
Andrew Allison, Alexander William Salter
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Sociologie Românească, 2011 The paper analyzes the dynamics of electoral participation and its predictors in Romania, using both official data on turnout and post-electoral surveys’ data.
Marius I. Tătar
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Formation of Distance‐Based Orientation: Political Identity through Relational Positioning in Israel
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Distance‐based orientation describes how pejorative labels may serve as anchor points for political identity. Existing research on political labeling has largely emphasized stigmatization, overlooking how labels may acquire durability and orienting capacity without losing pejorative force. Drawing on publicly circulating discourse, we trace positioning
Tammar Friedman, Asaf Saadon
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article reports on a qualitative study of the way instructors and students understand and respond to traumatizing events in a Sri Lankan university. It shows how the attitudes and practices in the society at large are carried over to classrooms even though local institutions do not have a programmatic trauma‐informed pedagogy.
Suresh Canagarajah +1 more
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Field experiment estimate of electoral fraud in Russian parliamentary elections. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2013 Enikolopov R +4 more
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A Country That Never Sleeps? A Web Scrapping Analysis of the 24‐h Economy Policy in Ghana
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In light of revitalizing Ghana's economic landscape through sustainable job creation underpinned by 24‐h operations across all key sectors, the National Democratic Congress proposed the ‘24‐h economy’ policy proposal. This study employs the web‐scraping technique through text mining and python codes to analyse 1820 comments from Facebook, X ...
Pius Gamette +3 more
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Sfera Politicii, 2017 Local elections might be perceived as gender neutral when it comes to women’s descriptive representation in the Parliament. However, according to quantitative and qualitative data from the 2016 elections, I argue that local elections play a role in the ...
OANA BĂLUȚĂ
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