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Elections, Independence, Democracy: The 2012 Timorese Electoral Cycle in Context
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2012 Timor-Leste rose to independence following a path that included three electoral processes organized under the auspices of the UN and has thus got elections imprinted on its own genetic code. After independence, the responsibility for electoral processes –
Rui Graça Feijó
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Endogenous Election Timings and Political Business Cycles in Japan [PDF]
This paper constructs a theoretical model of political business cycles in a Parliamentary system and tests predictions and hypotheses of a theoretical model against the post-war Japanese data.
Takatoshi Ito
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Red Rural, Blue Rural; Rural Does Not Always Equal Republican [PDF]
, 2015 In this fact sheet, authors Dante Scala and Kenneth Johnson examine voting data for nearly 9,000 rural residents to identify how voting patterns differ across rural areas comparing farm and recreational counties to those elsewhere in rural America.
Johnson, Kenneth M., Scala, Dante J.
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European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that European Union (EU) peacebuilding scholarship can benefit from organizational research on the socio‐spatial dynamics of policy implementation. It introduces a strategic‐relational heuristic to address two key gaps: the marginalization of grassroots agency in spatial analyses and the separation of strategy from ...
Giada Lagana, Sioned Pearce
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İstanbul Hukuk MecmuasıAccording to Turkish law, public servants must resign if they wish to run for election. However, no clear regulation states that vice-presidents and ministers, who are candidates in forthcoming parliamentary, presidential, or local elections, must resign
Volkan Aslan
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The European Parliament elections in Romania will highlight the deep divisions within the country’s political system [PDF]
, 2014 The European Parliament elections in Romania will be held alongside a constitutional referendum, and ahead of Presidential elections in November. Clara Volintiru writes that while the elections will serve as a ‘dress rehearsal’ for the Presidential ...
Volintiru, Clara
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European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past decade, the concept of “instrument constituency” has been proposed as a way in which to bridge studies on policy networks and policy instruments. This concept focuses on policy networks composed of diverse actors who are brought together by the shared goal of promoting a specific instrument.
Noémie Morize
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Presidential Succession and Democratic Transitions [PDF]
Why might presidential succession in partly- and non-democratic regimes render the probability of democratic transition more likely? Many presidential regimes in developing world are highly personalist and their stability depends on the strength of their
Alexander Baturo
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A synthesis of the role of media reports and elections in Nigerian democracy [PDF]
, 2011 This paper examines the interplay between the media and the elections in Nigeria, and discusses some of the relevant communication models that could assist the media in effectively reporting future elections in the country.
Hudson, Robert Charles +1 more
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European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What is the role of policy entrepreneurs in promoting the design of public administrative reform? We present a conceptual framework for assessing the influence of policy entrepreneurs on public administrative reform. We start by proposing a typology of the various policy entrepreneurs active in the administrative reform arena.
Nissim Cohen
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