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Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how municipal legislators frame climate mitigation and how these framings shift responsibility, narrow the perceived scope of municipal authority, and reduce the urgency or feasibility of local action. We analyzed 31 interviews with city councilors serving on Permanent Environmental Committees across municipalities in ...
Tainá Yumi Patriani
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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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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The interest in putting a price on carbon emissions is increasing in pace with the urgency of climate change. In this article we compare the adoption of one such policy instrument, carbon taxation, in the cases of Sweden and Mexico. We use a theoretical framework that focuses on economic and environmental factors influencing the policy process
Jakob Skovgaard +3 more
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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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Towards the 2017 French election: Socialist and Republican nominees from the selection to the presidential election [PDF]
, 2017 In France, primaries have become an important part of French party system. Recently, the process, used by different parties, has been opened also to sympathisers.
De Luca, Marino
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European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The atrocities committed during the Nazi era still affect Germany's image in the world and Germans' feelings about their country's past. Herein, we investigate how historical propaganda images glorifying Adolf Hitler influence these feelings. Prior scholars have raised concerns that such materials might communicate distorted images of the past
Lara Ditrich +3 more
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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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Winning the Media Campaign: How the Press Reported the 2008 Presidential General Election [PDF]
, 2008 Examines the tone, amount, and type of coverage the presidential candidates received from forty-eight news outlets between the conventions and the final debate.
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Vice presidential candidates in the American presidential elections: strategies for selection and effects [PDF]
, 2015 American vice presidential candidates are chosen for several reasons. Some of these rationales are easy to be recognized, while others belong to the cockles of the heart of the presidential candidates.
Morini, Marco
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European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Affective polarisation, a growing hostility toward political outgroups, is a phenomenon rooted in social identity. Social identity threat—the expectation of experiencing some form of denigration based on a self‐relevant group identity—is thought to be a major driver of affective polarisation.
Brandon McMurtrie +4 more
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