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Breakdown by disengagement: Tunisia’s transition from representative democracy

Political Research Exchange, 2023
On 25 July 2021, Tunisian president Kais Saied suspended parliament, lifted the immunity of its members, and dismissed the prime minister and the government.
Kevin Koehler
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UiO‐66 metal–organic frameworks in biomedicine: From structural tunability to bioimaging, photodiagnostics, and photodynamic cancer therapy

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
UiO‐66(Zr) metal–organic frameworks are chemically stable, biocompatible, and highly tunable nanomaterials. Their modular structure enables controlled drug delivery, multimodal bioimaging, and light‐activated photodynamic therapy, supporting integrated diagnostic and therapeutic (theranostic) applications in cancer and biomedical research.
Veronika Huntošová, Grigorii Rakhalskii, Miroslav Almáši   +2 more
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STUDENT MOVEMENT AND THE CASE FOR RANDOMLY SELECTED LEGISLATURES

Političke Perspektive
The student movement in Serbia employs a repertoire of political actions that transcend conventional political participation in electoral democracies, including reliance on direct and deliberative decision-making, active resistance to recognizable ...
Miloš Kovačević, Ivana Kovačević
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Authoritarian Liberalism in Contemporary Europe: methodological approaches and conceptual models

Politics in Central Europe, 2019
The author conducts a comparative analysis of authoritarian liberalism’s concepts in contemporary political theory. The paper deals with the main directions of interpretation of authoritarian liberalism in the framework of methodological approaches and ...
Popov Maxim
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Mauro Dorato, Science and Representative Democracy: Experts and Citizens, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, 200pp., £85.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781350277724. [PDF]

Manuscrito
Mauro Dorato's "Science and Representative Democracy" argues for the essential link between science and democracy. He posits both as problem-solving systems, advocating for representative democracy to integrate scientific knowledge into policy and ...
BRUNO BORGE
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Small RNA pathways in mammalian oocytes

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Three distinct small RNA pathways operate in mammalian oocytes: RNAi interference (RNAi), the microRNA (miRNA) pathway, and the PIWI‐associated RNA (piRNA) pathway. These pathways use small RNAs to guide sequence‐specific repression and contribute to oocyte biology by targeting genes and mobile elements or appear insignificant since different ...
Petr Svoboda, Josef Pasulka
wiley   +1 more source

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY IN FEDERAL CITY

RUDN Journal of Public Administration, 2016
The article analyzes the quantitative representation of citizens in the representative bodies of state power and local self-government in cities of federal significance.
Nina N Musinova
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From energy provision to protein synthesis: Tunnelling nanotubes as mediators of intercellular metabolic cooperation in cancer

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
The cytoskeleton‐mediated transport of mitochondria via tunnelling nanotubes restores respiration, increases ATP production, rescues cells from apoptosis, activates the AKT/mTOR signalling pathway, promotes cell migration and invasiveness, contributes to cancer progression and treatment resistance.
Stanislava Martínková, Jan Trnka
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Endogenous Lobbying [PDF]

In this paper we present a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with endogenous lobbying. We find that lobbying induces policy compromise and always affects equilibrium policy outcomes.
Antonio Merlo, Leonardo Felli
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Populism and Technocracy: Pillars of Postwar Representative Democracy in Europe

Perspective Politice
The established representative democracy in Europe is facing growing challenges. In a rapidly evolving landscape that resolves some crises while encountering new ones, two movements – populism and technocracy – are emerging as alternatives to the ...
Rareș-Bogdan ROȘULESCU
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