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Party System Changes and Challenges to Democracy [PDF]

This open access book focuses on the nexus between “party system stability” and “democratic consolidation”, using Slovenia as a case study. Its findings are presented from a comparative perspective to illustrate the commonalities and differences found in research on Central European post-socialist countries and former Yugoslav countries.
openaire   +4 more sources

Quantifying Consumer Tradeoffs Across Firm‐Level Strategic Positioning Dimensions: Evidence from US Craft Beer Consumers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Strategic positioning becomes increasingly important as markets mature, particularly in consumer‐facing industries that offer similar products, experiential cues, and values‐based messages. This study offers a conceptual model to examine the strategic positioning factors that motivate consumers to visit one local business over another before ...
Aaron J. Staples, Trey Malone, J. Robert Sirrine   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Sfera 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
doaj  

Shattering the Duopoly: The 2025 Portuguese Elections and the Rise of the Radical Right

Más Poder Local
The 2025 Portuguese legislative elections consolidated a fundamental change in the country’s party system. Triggered by a high-profile political scandal, the election returned the center-right AD to government.
David Pimenta, Pedro C. Magalhães
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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
wiley   +1 more source

Volatilty and electoral competitivity in Latin America: an exploratory study of six party systems

Revista Colección, 2017
To what extent electoral volatility and party system competitiveness may be related? This paper seeks to answer this question by studying six Latin American party systems (Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela). Considering Presidential and
Facundo Cruz
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Workplace Harassment and Consideration of Leaving Surgical Practice: A Nationwide Survey by the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
In this nationwide survey of 1967 members of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery, 66% reported experiencing workplace harassment, and 56% of those affected had considered leaving surgical practice. These findings highlight the need for sustained, society‐wide efforts to prevent harassment and foster respectful and psychologically safe ...
Keisuke Kurimoto, Tsutomu Fujii, Yoshihiro Shirai, Atsuro Fujinaga, Masayuki Fukumoto, Sonoko Ishida, Koya Hida, Chie Tanaka, Tsunekazu Mizushima, Sachiyo Nomura, Ken Shirabe   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sampling Strategy: An Overlooked Factor Affecting Artificial Intelligence Prediction Accuracy of Peptides’ Physicochemical Properties

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
This study reveals that sampling strategy (i.e., sampling size and approach) is a foundational prerequisite for building accurate and generalizable AI models in peptide discovery. Reaching a threshold of 7.5% of the total tetrapeptide sequence space was essential to ensure reliable predictions.
Meiru Yan, Ankeer Abuduhebaier, Haojin Zhou, Jiaqi Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Driving Laboratory Optimizes the Lower Critical Solution Temperature of Thermoresponsive Polymers

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
A low‐cost, self‐driving laboratory is developed to democratize autonomous materials discovery. Using this "frugal twin" hardware architecture with Bayesian optimization, the platform rapidly converges to target lower critical solution temperature (LCST) values while self‐correcting from off‐target experiments, demonstrating an accessible route to data‐
Guoyue Xu, Renzheng Zhang, Tengfei Luo
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of the federal elections on the transformation of the Canadian Party System In 1990-2020 years

RUDN Journal of World History
The study presents the evolution of the Canadian party system in the period from 1993 to 2021. The author believes that the results of the general elections in Canada, from 1993 to 2021, had the most direct impact on the transformation of the party ...
Andrey N. Komarov
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