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A Vindication of Responsible Parties [PDF]

open access: yes
Electoral platform convergence is perceived unfavorably by both the popular press and many academic scholars. This paper provides a formal account of these perceived negative effects.
Dan Bernhardt   +2 more
core  

The Evolution of Chieftaincy Power in Ghana’s Political Governance: From Historical Legacy to Contemporary Role

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Political Science
The presented research provides an up-to-date view of the institution of traditional authority - the power of chiefs, in modern Ghana. Despite the fact that their political influence has changed over the course of history, Chiefs in Ghana are still ...
Nikolaj A. Medushevsky
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Coordination Mechanisms and Transaction Costs Promoting Sustainability Performance in Agri‐Food Supply Chains: Evidence From Ecuador

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
wiley   +1 more source

Tripartite Entanglement in Noninertial Frame

open access: yes, 2010
The tripartite entanglement is examined when one of the three parties moves with a uniform acceleration with respect to other parties. As Unruh effect indicates, the tripartite entanglement exhibits a decreasing behavior with increasing the acceleration.
A. Cayley   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

3. The Emergence of Socialist Parties, 1848-1914

open access: yes, 1958
The emergence of socialist parties frequently is treated by Marxians and non-Marxians alike, as an inevitable development. From this viewpoint, the Industrial Revolution completed the breakdown of an essentially land-based social structure, economy, and ...
Bloom, Robert L.   +6 more
core  

Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political Parties and Network Formation [PDF]

open access: yes
We argue that anticorruption laws may provide an efficiency rationale for why political parties should meddle in the distribution of political nominations and government contracts.
Panu Poutvaara, Topi Miettinen
core  

Electing a parliament [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
We present a model where a society elects a parliament by voting for candidates belonging to two parties. The electoral rule determines the seats distribution between the two parties.
De Sinopoli, Francesco   +2 more
core   +1 more source

A dual modelling of evolving political opinion networks

open access: yes, 2012
We present the result of a dual modeling of opinion network. The model complements the agent-based opinion models by attaching to the social agent (voters) network a political opinion (party) network having its own intrinsic mechanisms of evolution ...
D. Stauffer   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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