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Changes in Alcohol Retail Laws and Foot Traffic at Liquor Stores

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how expanding alcohol availability at grocery and convenience stores affects consumer traffic in liquor stores by leveraging recent changes in state‐level alcohol distribution laws in a difference‐in‐difference quasi‐experimental design.
Nathan Palardy, Marco Costanigro, Joshua Berning, Jude Bayham   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Citizen Engagement for Social and Technological Innovation in Sustainable Energy Systems

Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
This study underscores the potential of citizen participation in the energy transition by providing insights to foster citizen‐driven innovation. An analysis of energy communities, one of the most dynamic innovations in the energy sector, reveals that these models can be citizen‐led initiatives regarding their operational and organizational structure ...
Ana Belén Cristóbal, Cristina Sanz‐Cuadrado, Kiane Alves e Silva, Luis Narvarte   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Government regulatory policies for digital transformation in small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises: an evolutionary game analysis

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
In recent years, digital transformation (DT) has become an inevitable choice for manufacturing enterprises to achieve sustainable development. As a large number of enterprise groups, small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMMEs) play an ...
Jianhua Zhu, Julien S. Baker, Zhiting Song, Xiao-Guang Yue, Wenqi Li   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Once you recognize that coalition government is a European norm, and is likely to endure in the UK, further changes in British party politics (such as electoral pacts) look quite feasible [PDF]

, 2010
The Conservative and Liberal Democrat government has already overturned decades of the conventional wisdom about UK governance, suggesting instead that coalitions will work stably in Britain, as they do in much of Europe.
Bouçek, Francoise
core  

Probabilistic Modeling for Prediction Errors to Enhance Balancing Market Participation of Photovoltaic Systems: Error Threshold Estimation, Multisite Aggregation, and Overloading Effects

Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
This study proposes a method to increase the value of solar power in balancing markets by managing prediction errors. The approach models prediction uncertainties and quantifies reserve requirements based on a probabilistic model. This enables the more reliable participation of photovoltaic plants in balancing markets across multiple sites, especially ...
Jindan Cui, Xue Fang, Takashi Oozeki, Yuzuru Ueda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governance crisis: the challenge chinese governments facing in the new era

Portes: Revista mexicana de estudios sobre la Cuenca del Pacífico, 2015
Communist Party of China (CPC) has completed the conscious transformation from a revolutionary party to the ruling party. It is inevitable for such a big country like China to make some small mistakes in the process of the reform. However, these small
Shi-jun Wang
doaj  

Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen, Leon Englberger, Jens Rommel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Circularity, Sustainability, and the Quality of Coffee Sold via Vending Machines: What Do Italian Consumers Prefer?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vending is an important sector in the daily lives of many people, and coffee is the most frequently consumed product in the European market. Like many other sectors, vending is responding to the challenge of sustainable development by taking various actions, such as offering increasingly ecologically sound coffee while maintaining/improving ...
Alberto Bertossi, Stefania Troiano, Francesco Marangon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why has Europe become the concentration area of multi-party states: A novel explanatory model of multifactorial mechanism

Heliyon
The existence of a multi-party system is one of the most important criterion for assessing the degree of democratization of a state. In contemporary democratic republics, the multi-party system has become a formalistic representation. However, in Europe,
Caikun Cheng, Caisheng Cheng, Haoshen Che   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Democracy and government performance: holding incumbents accountable in English local governments [PDF]

, 2013
notes: Representative democracy, public management, elections, performance management, political control, incumbents, local governmentpublication-status: Acceptedtypes: ArticleThe link between government performance and support for incumbents is a key ...
Boyne, G, James, O, John, P, Petrovsky, N   +3 more
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