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Changes in Alcohol Retail Laws and Foot Traffic at Liquor Stores

open access: yesApplied 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of founding elections in shaping the Romanian party system. Electoral clarity versus the failure of party in government (1990-2014)

open access: yesSfera Politicii, 2015
25 years after the first competitive elections, the Romanian party system still exhibits high levels of discontinuity between electoral competitions and governmental functioning.
Alexandra Iancu
doaj  

Citizen Engagement for Social and Technological Innovation in Sustainable Energy Systems

open access: yesAdvanced 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emerging pluralist politics in Mozambique: the Frelimo-Renamo party system [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In 1992, the Mozambican civil war was brought to a close, marking the beginning of a 'pacted' and fundamentally successful process of democratic change.
Carbone, Giovanni M.
core  

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

open access: yesAdvanced 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The new repetitive tendencies. A contextual analysis of the 2012 local elections

open access: yesSfera Politicii, 2012
The author considers that 2012 local elections in Romania marked the beginnings of a new party system and political system. 2012 was the year of popular movements and street protests, asking for political change. For the first time in post-communism, the
Dan Pavel
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Measuring group switching in the European Parliament: Methodology, data and trends (1979-2009) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Party group switching in the European Parliament (ep), where parliamentarians individually or collectively switch from one party group to the other, is a well-known contributor to the volatility of the ep party system.
Evans, Ana Maria, Vink, Maarten Peter
core   +1 more source

Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Church, optimism, Orthodox pastoral care, positive psychology, worship.

open access: yesStudia Humanitatis, 2017
The article deals with the national characteristics of democratic reforms in the Republic of Bulgaria. The main stages of the transformation processes in the Bulgarian political space are identified.
Zhukovska Alisa Oleksandrivna
doaj  

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