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The peril of parliamentarism? : executive–legislative relations and the transition to democracy from electoral authoritarian rule [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Why do some electoral authoritarian regimes survive for decades while others become democracies? This article explores the impact of constitutional structures on democratic transitions from electoral authoritarianism.
HIGASHIJIMA, Masaaki, KASUYA, Yuko
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Examining the correspondence between political ideology and gun policy attitudes among Black and White people in the United States

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The present research examined whether political ideology corresponded with gun attitudes among people disproportionately experiencing gun violence—Black people in the United States. Across four studies (N = 25,847) we found that race (Black vs.
Joy E. Losee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Continuity in Finland as Sauli Niinistö is re-elected as President [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
On 28 January, Sauli Niinistö was re-elected as Finland's President in the first round of voting. Tapio Raunio explains that with voters clearly approving of Niinistö's track record in office, the other mainstream candidates found it extremely difficult ...
Raunio, Tapio
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Legislating Uncertainty: Election Policies and the Amplification of Misinformation

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can state election policies affect the spread of misinformation? This paper studies the role played by ballot processing policies, which determine when ballots can be examined and organized, in the online spread of political misinformation. We present evidence from the 2020 U.S.
Morgan Wack   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regulatory Context and Bureaucratic Policy Making: Illustrations From Payment System Regulation in Brazil

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how bureaucratic strategies for structuring the policy environment shape regulatory outcomes, focusing on the extent to which agencies achieve their original policy preferences. Drawing on resource dependence theory and bureaucratic politics, we conceptualize the policy environment in two dimensions: internal ...
João Pedro Haddad   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
wiley   +1 more source

Rights, respect, and the duty to obey the law

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Shruta Swarup
wiley   +1 more source

Pandemic Geographies of Home: Domestic Thresholding in Response to COVID‐19

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract With the home at the forefront of political and public health responses to COVID‐19, the thresholds between domestic space and the world beyond acquired a new significance in people's everyday lives. This paper introduces the concept of ‘thresholding’ to explore the ways in which internal and external thresholds are understood and ...
Alison Blunt   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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