Parties for Rent? Ambition, Ideology, and Party Switching in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies [PDF]
American Journal of Political Science, 2005 Party switching by legislators has been common in many countries, including the Philippines, Italy, Nepal, Ecuador, Russia, and Japan. While frequently dismissed as simply an indicator of a weak parties, switching provides a unique window on party systems.
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Quantum Computers and Quantum Coherence
, 1999 If the states of spins in solids can be created, manipulated, and measured at the single-quantum level, an entirely new form of information processing, quantum computing, will be possible.
Abramson +58 more
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Stick or switch? Consumer switching in 14 retail markets across Europe. ESRI Research Bulletin 2019/12 [PDF]
, 2019 Consumer advocates and regulators encourage the public to search for better deals in markets for services like telecoms, energy and insurance, arguing that there are opportunities to save money and get better service by switching.
Cullinan, John +2 more
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Modeling of the parties' vote share distributions
, 2018 Competition between varying ideas, people and institutions fuels the dynamics of socio-economic systems. Numerous analyses of the empirical data extracted from different financial markets have established a consistent set of stylized facts describing ...
Kononovicius, A.
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Linear game non-contextuality and Bell inequalities—a graph-theoretic approach
New Journal of Physics, 2016 We study the classical and quantum values of a class of one- and two-party unique games, that generalizes the well-known XOR games to the case of non-binary outcomes.
M Rosicka +6 more
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Korelasi Pemilu Serentak dengan Multi Partai Sederhana Sebagai Penguatan Sistem Presidensial
Jurnal Konstitusi, 2016 Constitutional Court Decision No. 14/PUU-XI/2013 mandated national elections simultaneously between elections executive (President and Vice-President) and legislative (House of Representatives, Provincial and District/City).
Hayat Hayat
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A Charge-Equalization Circuit with an Intermediate Resonant Energy Tank
Energies, 2020 In this paper, we propose a novel charge-equalization circuit for series-connected batteries. The circuit is composed of an intermediate resonant energy tank, formed by an inductor and a capacitor, and selection switches connected to each battery.
Yao-Ching Hsieh +2 more
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Nigerian Electoral Black Market: Where Do Party Switchers Go and Why Does It Matter?
Africa SpectrumWith most existing research on party switching concentrating on the drivers of defection and the electoral performance of defectors, this research sheds light on the events that occurred after MPs switched parties but before voters sanctioned them in the
Victor Agboga
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A data-driven network approach for characterization of political parties’ ideology dynamics
Applied Network Science, 2019 Political ideology is a major social phenomena that plays a crucial role in the formation and dynamics of ideologically-aligned social groups. This alignment gives rise to some of the most powerful social structures in modern democracies, the political ...
Josemar Faustino +3 more
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How open is open enough?: Melding proprietary and open source platform strategies [PDF]
, 2003 Computer platforms provide an integrated architecture of hardware and software standards as a basis for developing complementary assets. The most successful platforms were owned by proprietary sponsors that controlled platform evolution and appropriated ...
West, Joel
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