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Patterns of electoral competition for the Chamber of Deputies in Brazil (1994-2002)

América Latina Hoy, 2013
The current article presents an analysis of the patterns of electoral competition to the Chamber of Deputies in Brazil. Electoral rules have a significant impact on political competition and on the configuration and workings of the political system in ...
Maria D’ALVA KINZO, José Paulo MARTINS, Ivan BORIN   +2 more
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Comparing nuclear power trajectories in Germany and the UK: from ‘regimes' to ‘democracies’ in sociotechnical transitions and Discontinuities [PDF]

, 2015
This paper focuses on arguably the single most striking contrast in contemporary major energy politics in Europe (and even the developed world as a whole): the starkly differing civil nuclear policies of Germany and the UK. Germany is seeking entirely to
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Did the Indian Green Revolution Change the Farm Size–Productivity Relationship?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between farm size and productivity during India's Green Revolution, a period of rapid technological transformation. Using a unique panel of over 5000 Indian farm households that spans the Green Revolution (1971–1999), we show that the classic (linear) inverse farm size–productivity relationship gradually evolved ...
Rabail Chandio, Leah E. M. Bevis
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Digital public sphere: weaknesses and challenges

Comunicação e Sociedade, 2013
Despite the conceptual difficulties and complex configuration, the concept of public sphere has dominated much of the recent literature in areas such as political sciences, cultural studies, communication sciences and sociology of new media...
Helena Sousa, Manuel Pinto, Elsa Costa e Silva   +2 more
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EVOLUTIONARY STABLE PROPERTIES OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN INDONESIA [PDF]

, 2004
The major idea is to use memetics as an analytical tool on viewing how the existing political parties towards General Election 2004 creating formation of their presidential candidacy, ideology behind it, the change of political atmosphere it will bring ...
Khanafiah, Mr Deni, Sartika, Mr Tiktik, Situngkir, Mr Hokky   +2 more
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes, Amanda M. Countryman, Dustin L. Pendell   +2 more
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The political economy of job protection and income redistribution [PDF]

, 2004
This paper presents a model allowing to analyze voting, welfare institutions and economic performance. We consider a political economy framework with three classes of agents: entrepreneurs, employed workers and unemployed workers.
Amable, Bruno, Gatti, Donatella
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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The UN and the America-Iraq conflit - the diplomatic negotiations in the sovereignty reaffirmation in contempory international law

Prisma Jurídico, 2003
The work developed under this theme focus its main questioning on the conceptual configuration of the State sovereignty, facing the conflicts broken out in America-Iraq war, counterpointing the negotiation environment conducted by the UN, based on the ...
Carlos Eduardo de Abreu Boucault
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Synergies in Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation: Decomposing the Interaction Between Nature Parks and Agri‐Environment Schemes

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang, Christian Ritzel, Antonia Kaiser, Gabriele Mack   +3 more
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