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Partisan Cities: How State‐Local Political Alignment Shapes Credit Risk and Information Processing in the Municipal Bond Market

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies how partisan alignment between city leaders and state governors shapes information processing and bond pricing in the municipal bond market. Using a novel data set on 1,045 U.S. cities from 2005 to 2019, we show that cities with the same political affiliation as the state governor face 9 basis points lower borrowing costs ...
RAMONA DAGOSTINO, ANYA NAKHMURINA
wiley   +1 more source

Ku Klux Klan activism in the 1960s is linked to the South’s swing to the Republican Party

, 2014
After the midterm elections, the Democratic Party is now very nearly unrepresented in the Southern states of the U.S., the culmination of a political realignment that began in the 1960s.
McVeigh, Rory
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Internal party democracy in Turkey: theory, prospect and problems [PDF]

, 2019
This thesis aims to analyse the theory of internal party democracy (IPD) and mainly tries to show hypothetical connection between broad political problems of Turkey and party-level ones.
Güçlü, Ali Murat
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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
wiley   +1 more source

Celebrations of Republic Day in Gaziantep at the Single Party Period 1938-1945

Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2015
One of the important symbolic values of the establishment of social unity and shaping the perception of this unity are festivals. The phenomenon of festival which emerges in National and religious structure has been very important for the Turkish ...
Erhan ALPASLAN
doaj   +1 more source

Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Securing Democracy: Online Political Advertising Regulations and Practices in the EU and its Member States

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Starting with the Facebook‐Cambridge Analytica scandal and its link to Brexit and the 2016 US elections, the nexus among online political advertising, micro‐targeting, and data‐driven electoral campaigning has revealed its disruptive potential for democracies.
Enea Fiore, Antonella Seddone, Daniela R. Piccio   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mitigating Disinformation with Civic Constitutionalism: The Case Study of Taiwan

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid growing concerns over information integrity, disinformation has evolved into a broader and more complex phenomenon now recognized as Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI), posing significant threats to democratic governance.
Wen‐Chen Chang, Yu‐teng Lin
wiley   +1 more source

Nouer la liesse au massacre

European Journal of Turkish Studies
This first section examines the enduring presence of the genocide in the public sphere of the 1930s. It challenges the widespread notion that the crime was relegated to silence following the founding of the Republic and only reemerged in public debate ...
Zeynep Ertuğrul, Emmanuel Szurek
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Turkey’s Islamist AK Party Wins Third Term of Single-Party Rule: Time to Create a Liberal Secular State [PDF]

, 2011
The mildly Islamist Justice and Development party (AKP) of Recep Tayyip Erdogan won its third absolute victory in parliamentary elections, enabling it to press ahead, should it wish, on a host of issues including reviving the moribund EU accession ...
Chislett, William
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