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Backsliding among indicators of democratic stability relevant to public health: Risks in OECD nations

open access: yesWorld Medical &Health Policy, Volume 15, Issue 4, Page 455-475, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Oppression and inequality, as critical social and structural determinants of health, are key threats to public health. Democratic stability provides institutional measures to mitigate oppression and inequality. We investigate trends in democratic backsliding in the Organization for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) nations, overall,
Charley E. Willison   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Portugal: Political Developments and Data in 2022

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 409-426, December 2023., 2023
Abstract In this article, the main events of political life in Portugal are discussed. It includes a report on general elections in 2022, the formation of a new Socialist absolute majority government led by Prime Minister Antonio Costa, and major parliamentary decisions and debates.
JOSÉ M. MAGONE
wiley   +1 more source

Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Political Research, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 1078-1100, November 2023., 2023
Abstract What makes some challenger parties succeed and others fail? Existing research on party‐level factors finds that it is essential for parties to close a representational gap. However, this condition cannot be sufficient. For each successful challenger, there are many others proclaiming a similar message but going unheard.
JAN FABIAN DOLLBAUM, JAN MATTI DOLLBAUM
wiley   +1 more source

Connectivity between countries established by landbirds and raptors migrating along the African–Eurasian flyway

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 1, February 2023., 2023
Abstract The conservation of long‐distance migratory birds requires coordination between the multiple countries connected by the movements of these species. The recent expansion of tracking studies is shedding new light on these movements, but much of this information is fragmented and inaccessible to conservation practitioners and policy makers.
João L. Guilherme   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Portugal: Political Developments and Data in 2021

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, Volume 61, Issue 1, Page 374-384, December 2022., 2022
Abstract In 2021, Portuguese politics was strongly affected by the Covid‐19 pandemic. In this constraining context, the Portuguese population went twice to the polls in presidential and local elections. Moreover, the Portuguese government was the holder of the presidency of the Council of the European Union.
JOSÉ M. MAGONE
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of democracy, governance and government policies on the COVID‐19 pandemic mortality

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 231-247, Spring 2022., 2022
Abstract The paper analyses the determinants of mortality during the Corona pandemic. In a first step, possible causes are subjected to a global comparison.The focus is on political, institutional, economic, demographic and health policy factors. It is shown that, contrary to the assumption, democratic countries have a higher Covid‐19 mortality.
Uwe Wagschal
wiley   +1 more source

Under pressure. Economic constraints, electoral politics and labour market reforms in Southern Europe in the decade of the Great Recession

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Political Research, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 509-538, August 2021., 2021
Abstract Even when subject to comparable exogenous constraints during the Eurozone crisis and in its immediate aftermath, governments in Southern Europe have pursued distinct labour market reform agendas. What room for manoeuvre did governments of crisis‐struck peripheral countries really have in shaping their labour market reform strategies, and how ...
FABIO BULFONE, ARIANNA TASSINARI
wiley   +1 more source

The transition debate in Brazilian history: The bourgeois paradigm and its critique

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, Volume 21, Issue 2, Page 263-284, April 2021., 2021
Abstract The origins of capitalism in Brazil have been traditionally overlooked by the literature on its developmental trajectory, either considered as an outcome of colonial exploitation or described through a broad notion of ‘bourgeois revolution’.
Pedro Salgado
wiley   +1 more source

Educational hazards? The politics of disaster risk education in Rio de Janeiro

open access: yesDisasters, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 86-106, January 2021., 2021
Disaster education outcomes are highly dependent on the political context of that education. Based on a rich, in‐depth case study of the creation of community monitors in a landslide and flood‐prone city in southeast Brazil, this paper demonstrates how developmental and political environments add much additional nuance to existing theories of ...
Robert Coates
wiley   +1 more source

La gestion démocratique des écoles: de l´autogouvernement à l’émergence d’une post-démocratie gestionnaire? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
O autor assinala três elementos básicos que têm sido historicamente associados à gestão democrática das escolas: eleição, colegialidade, participação na decisão.
ADRIÃO T.   +31 more
core   +2 more sources

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