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Elections as beauty contests: do the rules matter? [PDF]

, 2011
Leaders have become the human face of election campaigns. This has lead to the suggestion that many voters now vote for the party leader they like best rather than the party they prefer.
Curtice, John, Hunjan, S.
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What Choices Do Democracies Have in Globalizing Economies? Technochratic Policy Making and Democratization [PDF]

, 2000
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
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Parliamentary Questions in Belgium: Testing for Party Discipline

The Journal of Legislative Studies, 2011
This contribution seeks to explain the numbers of written questions in the Belgian House of Representatives (1995–2007). Important variations over time, party and coalition formula have been observed and ‘classic’ explanations – such as the size of the parliamentary party group, the linguistic group or the majority vs.
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Vers une représentation politique fidèle des quartiers défavorisés ?

Brussels Studies, 2010
This article examines where Brussels parliamentary members live, looking at the evolution of this phenomenon over the past 20 years. The central question focuses on whether different neighbourhoods within the Brussels Capital Region also experienced a ...
Filip de Maesschalck
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The European Union act 2011: a failed statute [PDF]

, 2012
If there was one area in which the two coalition parties needed to produce a workable agreement as a matter of priority after the May 2010 election, it was the European Union.
Murkens, Jo Eric Khushal
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Elections in Croatia, Northern Macedonia, Bulgaria and Serbia

Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН
There have been a few noteworthy electoral events in the countries of South-Eastern Europe in 2024: Croatia and Bulgaria held parliamentary and European elections, Northern Macedonia faced presidential and parliamentary elections, Serbia called re ...
Pavel E. Kandel
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Parliamentary Libraries, Institutes and Offices: The Sources of Parliamentary Information [PDF]

, 2004
World Bank Institute Working Paper Series on Contemporary Issues in Parliamentary, Washington ...
Miller, Robert, Pelizzo, Riccardo, Stapenhurst, Rick   +2 more
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Modes of Political Representation: Toward a New Typology [PDF]

, 2005
The mandate-independence controversy still features prominently in studies of political representation even though the problems with its theoretical foundation and empirical operationalization have long been recognized.
Andeweg, Rudy B., Thomassen, Jacques J.A.   +1 more
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Staff Matters: The Effect of Political Group Staff on MP Activity in the Netherlands

Politics and Governance
The small but growing literature on parliamentary staff is largely composed of qualitative descriptive studies of staff roles and activities. A key assumption that underlies all of these studies is that “staff matters” for parliamentary activity, but ...
Simon Otjes, Gijs Jan Brandsma
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Parliamentary questions to the House of Commons Commission: Accountability and parliamentary administration

Parliamentary Affairs
Abstract Parliamentary administration is integral to supporting the work of elected politicians. How is it held to account? This article focuses on parliamentary questions—one means of scrutinizing parliamentary administration. The article uses a qualitative analysis of written and oral questions MPs have asked the House of Commons ...
Francesca Melhuish, Ben Yong
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