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Carbonate sedimentology: An evolved discipline
The Depositional Record, Volume 12, Issue 1, February 2026.Abstract Although admired and examined since antiquity, carbonate sediment and rock research really began with Charles Darwin who, during a discovery phase, studied, documented and interpreted their nature in the mid‐19th century. The modern discipline, however, really began after World War II and evolved in two distinct phases.
Noel P. James, Peir K. Pufahl
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Presidentialism, parliamentarism and semi-presidentialism: bringing parties back in [PDF]
, 2011 Elgie, Robert
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Environmental Policy and Governance, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 149-164, February 2026.ABSTRACT As new regulations emerge to address deforestation and unsustainable land use, their interaction with existing national frameworks remains uncertain. This study examines the (in)coherence between the European Union Regulation on deforestation‐free products (EUDR) and domestic deforestation and land use regulations in Brazil, Cameroon and Gabon.
R. F. Ziegert +5 more
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Types and indices of democratic regimes [PDF]
Today democracy is seen as the only legitimate form of government almost all over the world. That it can be institutionalized differently leads to the question which kind of democracy might be better or worse.
Fuchs, Dieter
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The Duration of Caretaker Periods and the Formation of Parliamentary Governments
Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT In this article, I focus on an understudied aspect of the cabinet formation process in parliamentary democracies: the caretaker periods associated with it. Building on the existing literature on government formation, I discuss conceptualization and measurement of caretaker periods, defined as periods during which a government is no longer or ...
Francesco Bromo
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Semi‐Presidentialism and Comparative Institutional Engineering
, 1999 AbstractThe focus of this chapter is the academic debate on the choice of semi‐presidentialism as an appropriate constitutional arrangement. However, it does not aim to demonstrate that semi‐presidentialism is either a better or worse form of government than presidentialism or parliamentarism, and it has not been written with the intention of ...
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Semi-presidentialism: What have we learned? [PDF]
, 2015 This presentation gives an overview of semi-presidential studies since the early 1990s. It identifies three areas in which the study of semi-presidentialism has advanced, but also identifies challenges for the future study of semi-presidentialism.
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Macroeconomic Spillovers of Weather Shocks Across U.S. States
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Volume 88, Issue 1, Page 141-156, February 2026.ABSTRACT We estimate the short‐run effects of weather‐related disasters on local economic activity and cross‐border spillovers that operate through economic linkages between U.S. states. To this end, we use emergency declarations triggered by natural disasters and estimate their effects using a monthly global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model for U.S.
Emanuele Bacchiocchi +2 more
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Aggregate and sector-specific exchange rate indexes for the Portuguese economy [PDF]
Economic theory and empirical evidence suggest that fluctuation in exchange rates may have strong reallocation effects. Accession to the Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992, and then to the European Monetary Union em 1999, implied a drastic change in the ...
Fernando Alexandre +3 more
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Constitutional Framework and Fragile Democracies: Choosing between Parliamentarianism, Presidentialism and Semipresidentialism [PDF]
, 2000 Freeman, Mark
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