Unexpected Dual Function of Plant YUCCA Enzymes Links Chlorophyll Catabolism to Auxin Homeostasis. [PDF]
Angew Chem Int Ed EnglYUCCA enzymes are well known to catalyze the main step of auxin biosynthesis in plants. Here, a hitherto undescribed dual function was discovered, revealing that some YUCCAs also act in chlorophyll degradation. In vitro feedback regulation furthermore suggests a link between chlorophyll degradation and hormone homeostasis and a physiological role of ...
Rütschlin S +6 more
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A Right-Wing Populist Turn in the Conservative Party of Canada? Continuities and Ruptures Under the Leadership of Pierre Poilievre (2022-2025). [PDF]
Can Rev SociolABSTRACT Since his election as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) in 2022, Pierre Poilievre has been associated with populism in media and political discourse, with implicit and explicit comparisons to Donald Trump. This article investigates the validity of such assessments by applying “complex” theories of populism, which conceptualize ...
Peker E, Laxer E, Vivès R.
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Must Realists Be Pessimists About Democracy? Responding to Epistemic and Oligarchic Challenges [PDF]
, 2021 In this paper we show how a realistic normative democratic theory can work within the constraints set by the most pessimistic empirical results about voting behaviour and elite capture of the policy process.
Arlen, Gordon, Rossi, Enzo
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Social discord as the foundation of republicanism in Machiavelli’s thought [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2014 The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of social discord, based on the analysis of early chapters of Niccolo Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy.
Matić Ivan
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Democracy, Pluralization and Voice [PDF]
, 2009 This article explores different theoretical and political dimensions of voice in democratic theory. Drawing on recent developments in political theory, ranging from James Bohman?s work on the movement from demos to demoi in transnational politics, to ...
Norval, AJ
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Stawanie się motłochem: Wielogatunkowe dobra wspólne poza nowoczesnością
Praktyka Teoretyczna, 2020 Artykuł stanowi propozycję filozofii podmiotu politycznego, która uwzględniałaby osiągnięcia dwóch (zwykle niewchodzących ze sobą w dialog) tradycji badawczych.
Łukasz Moll, Michał Pospiszyl
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Sulla and popular assemblies in 88 B.C. [PDF]
Античный мир и археология, 2023 The paper examines the relationship between the consul Lucius Cornelius Sulla and the Roman plebs in 88 B.C. The first part of the paper considers the role of the popular assemblies in the political struggle around the bills of the plebeian ...
Korolenkov, Anton Viktorovich +1 more
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ARISTOCRACY AND POPULAR ENGAGEMENT IN REPUBLICAN ROMAN POLITICS
Heródoto, 2016 One of the recurrent themes in contemporary historiography on political and social organization of roman state resides on the participation or not of the population in decisions made in the different assemblies of roman citizens.
Jonathan Cruz Moreira
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Les dénominations du peuple chez les commentateurs de Tacite à la Renaissance
Pallas, 2023 A 1608 edition of the Annals of Tacitus, featuring commentaries by Justus Lipsius, as well as by 21 commentators who preceded him, serves here as the basis for a preliminary inquiry into how Tacitus’ various denominations of the people were viewed in the
Isabelle Cogitore
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Net, Plasma, Plebs. Margins of the Global City
Scienza & Politica, 2015 This essay aim at reading the spatial paradigm, dominant today, based on the flows, the net, the networking, as element of a complex discourse designed to offer epistemological legitimation to the economic-spatial restructuring effects generated by ...
Matteo Vegetti
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