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Politicians’ Motivation, Political Culture, and Electoral Competition [PDF]
We study electoral competition among politicians who are heterogeneous both in competence and in how much they care about (what they perceive as) the public interest relative to the private rents from being in office. We show that politicians’ incentives
Klaas J. Beniers, Robert Dur
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Data‐Driven Materials Science for Energy‐Sustainable Applications
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Data‐driven approaches powered by artificial intelligence are transforming materials discovery for energy sustainability. This review examines how auto‐generated high‐quality materials databases and domain‐specific language models accelerate research in photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, batteries and magnetic materials. Applications involve extraction of
Jacqueline M. Cole
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The Commitment of Senior Civil Servants to Democratic Freedoms and Equality
Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2012 In modern democracies, senior civil servants have outgrown their classic role of mere implementers of orders given by politicians. Both senior civil servants and politicians serve the same democratic state, and both are heirs to the democratic evolution.
Miro HACEK
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The Power of the Camera-Presenting Politicians. A study in the rhetoric of camera techniques
Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2019 The aim of this paper is to contribute to a critical phenomenological and rhetorical discussion of how politicians appear to the general public in today’s visual digital media.
Henrik Juel
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Chinese Funding: A Curse to Africa
African Journal of Political ScienceThe role of China in the liberation of Africa from colonial rule cannot be down played as I laid a foundation to Africa today. Most African countries were aided by China militarily and ideologically in the fight against Western colonial rule.
Chido T Chipfakacha
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Direct nanoscratching with a 500 nm diamond lapping film creates groove‐guided liquid‐crystal alignment interfaces on PCB‐compatible Cu‐patterned RF substrates within minutes, eliminating polymer coating and high‐temperature baking. The coating‐free process enables optical/molecular alignment validation and voltage‐programmable 28 GHz reflection‐phase ...
Junseok Ma +5 more
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Explaining institutional change : why elected politicians implement direct democracy [PDF]
, 2010 Why did representative politicians introduce direct democratic reforms, thus binding their own hands? This paper presents a formal model in which (1) voters are uncertain about their representative’s preferences; (2) direct and representative ...
Hugh-Jones, David
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag +3 more
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Deliberative Political Leaders: The Role of Policy Input in Political Leadership
Politics and Governance, 2016 This article provides a fresh perspective on political leadership by demonstrating that government ministers take a deliberative approach to decision making.
Jennifer Lees-Marshment
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Moonlighting politicians: A survey and research agenda [PDF]
Elected representatives in many countries are legally allowed to carry out (un)paid jobs in addition to their political mandate, often referred to as moonlighting.
Geys, Benny, Mause, Karsten
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