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Ethics in Politics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The topic ‘ethics in politics’ might cover a multitude of sins. Here it will be restricted to the ethics of politicians in representative liberal democracies. The ethics of public servants will be left aside, as will be the ethics of politicians in other
Tapper, Alan
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Overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims. Task 1: Check-Worthiness

open access: yes, 2018
We present an overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims, with focus on Task 1: Check-Worthiness.
Atanasova, Pepa   +8 more
core   +2 more sources

Circularity, Sustainability, and the Quality of Coffee Sold via Vending Machines: What Do Italian Consumers Prefer?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vending is an important sector in the daily lives of many people, and coffee is the most frequently consumed product in the European market. Like many other sectors, vending is responding to the challenge of sustainable development by taking various actions, such as offering increasingly ecologically sound coffee while maintaining/improving ...
Alberto Bertossi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political Systems and the Perspective on Nursing Education during the Spanish Transition (from the Franco Regime to Democracy). A Contribution based on Nursing History

open access: yesAquichan, 2010
DOI: 10.5294/aqui.2010.10.3.1 The aim of this study is to describe the changes in nursing education during the process prior to and after the establishment of democracy in Spain.
José Siles   +3 more
doaj  

Mediocracy, Third Version [PDF]

open access: yes
We study the recruitment of individuals in the political sector. We propose an equilibrium model of political recruitment by two political parties competing in an election.
Andrea Mattozzi, Antonio Merlo
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Entrenched time delays versus accelerating opinion dynamics: are advanced democracies inherently unstable?

open access: yes, 2017
Modern societies face the challenge that the time scale of opinion formation is continuously accelerating in contrast to the time scale of political decision making.
Gros, Claudius
core   +1 more source

How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Party system institutionalization and the quality of democracy in eastern Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Almost two decades have passed since the Third Wave of democratization brought an avalanche of new, relatively unstable democracies into being in Eastern Europe.
Casal B\ue9rtoa, Fernando
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

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