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Conditions Pertinent for Overcoming Gender Inequality in Political Leadership: A Comparative Analysis of Angela Merkel and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This qualitative study of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany implements a most different systems design (MDSD) as the basis for its comparative analysis.
Escalera Gonzalez, Maria Raquel J.
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Political power and renewable energy futures: A critical review

open access: yes, 2017
Inspired by the energy democracy movement, this conceptual review critically explores relationships between concentrated or distributed renewable energy and political power. Advocates assert that because the renewable energy transition is fundamentally a
Matthew J. Burke, J. Stephens
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Integrating techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives on national energy transitions: A meta-theoretical framework

open access: yes, 2018
Economic development, technological innovation, and policy change are especially prominent factors shaping energy transitions. Therefore explaining energy transitions requires combining insights from disciplines investigating these factors.
A. Cherp   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ni agua municipal ni agua nacional: la configuración del servicio de agua potable en la ciudad de Puebla 1939-1999.

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2009
The imposition of a Nation on individual actors is not mechanically granted due to the fact that they do not relate to it separately, but through configurations which generate a process of interchanging, by which the Nation is eventually built with ...
Enrique Guillermo Muñoz
doaj   +1 more source

It's parties that choose electoral systems (or Duverger's Law upside down) [PDF]

open access: yes
This article presents, discusses and tests the hypothesis that it is the number of parties what can explain the choice of electoral systems, rather than the other way round. Already existing political parties tend to choose electoral systems that, rather
Josep M. Colomer
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Application of existing knowledge: the only way to meet the MDG sanitation target in developing countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The MDG sanitation target is, at current progress, unlikely to be met. The most important reasons for this are (1) that at local level, and in some countries at national level, engineers and planners simply do not know what sanitation systems are ...
Mara, D.D.
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POTs: Protective Optimization Technologies

open access: yes, 2020
Algorithmic fairness aims to address the economic, moral, social, and political impact that digital systems have on populations through solutions that can be applied by service providers. Fairness frameworks do so, in part, by mapping these problems to a
Ah Muhammad   +56 more
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The regional political processes: theoretical aspects of the study

open access: yesСовременная наука и инновации
In the presented article, theoretical and methodological approaches to the definition of "regional political processes" are analyzed at the level of theoretical understanding, the diversity and dynamism of the functioning of regional political processes ...
T. A. Shchebzukhova   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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