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Toward Comprehensive Climate Action: Assessing Mitigation Approaches Across Canadian Municipalities

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Local governments are widely regarded as key leaders in the global response to climate change. Understanding if and how municipalities commit to climate mitigation is crucial for assessing their contribution to global emission‐reduction goals and identifying barriers to effective climate transitions.
Aryana Soliz   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Afghanistan: Presidential and Parliamentary Elections [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Presidential elections in Afghanistan were held on October 9, 2004, with heavy turnout and minimal violence. Karzai was declared the winner on November 3, 2004 with about 55% of the vote.
Katzman, Kenneth
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Addressing Barriers to Fair Community Participation in Mangrove Carbon Credit Projects: Insights From Thailand

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Thailand has announced ambitious plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including a programme that allows private companies to earn carbon credits from protecting and restoring mangroves. In 2023, the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) began enrolling local communities and private firms in this scheme.
Danny Marks, Kittima Leeruttanawisut
wiley   +1 more source

Gloss to the Decision of the Supreme Court of 29 October 2019 (I NSW 103/19)

open access: yesStudia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2019
Judicial control over the correct course of parliamentary elections is an important element of the broadly understood electoral procedure in a democratic state ruled by law.
Wojciech Mojski
doaj   +1 more source

“We Are Willing to Change, If…”: Potential Impacts of Citizens' Assemblies on the Willingness to Change for Sustainability in Rural East German Municipalities

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In light of the democratic and social‐ecological crises, deliberative minipublics such as citizens' assemblies are increasingly implemented and discussed by scholars as a means for sound decision‐making and to enhance public support for sustainability transformations.
Lea Findeis, Nicolas Jager
wiley   +1 more source

Growth, Centrism and Semi-Presidentialism: Forecasting the Portuguese General Elections [PDF]

open access: yes
Electoral behaviour in recently established democracies has been more frequently treated from the point of view of its unpredictability, volatility and personalistic elements than that of its "fundamentals".
Pedro C. Magalhães   +1 more
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Everything Changed, Yet Hunting Rights Did Not: Formulation of Wildlife Property Rights in Postsocialist Slovenia

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study uses the policy regime framework to examine how background conditions, institutions, and actor configurations shaped hunting rights within the forest–wildlife policy domain during Slovenia's postsocialist transformation. Drawing on media analysis, in‐depth interviews with policymakers, and legislative documents, it conducts a ...
Milan Šinko, Brina Malnar
wiley   +1 more source

Winners and Losers of Early Elections: On the Welfare Implications of Political Blockades and Early Elections [PDF]

open access: yes
We develop a dynamic model of political competition. Each party has a policymotivated ideological wing and an office-motivated opportunistic wing. A blockade arises if inner-party conflict stops policy implementation.
Felix Bierbrauer, Lydia Mechtenberg
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Left Wanting and Left Unheard: A Dual Grievance Model of Populism Across Six European Countries

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study tests a dual grievance model of populism by examining whether relative deprivation and external political inefficacy are linked to two core dimensions of populist beliefs (people sovereignty and anti‐elitism) via aversive political emotions (anger, sadness and fear) and institutional distrust across six European countries (N = 5487).
Anna Cortijos‐Bernabeu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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