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European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract Divergent thinking (DT) is an important constituent of creativity that captures aspects of fluency and originality. The literature lacks multivariate studies that report relationships between DT and its aspects with relevant covariates, such as cognitive abilities, personality traits (e.g. openness), and insight. In two multivariate studies (N
S. Weiss +6 more
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Semi-presidentialism in Kyrgyzstan [PDF]
Political Studies, 2016 Fumagalli describes political and constitutional developments in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, a country which has experienced significant political instability and constitutional change. Kyrgyzstan is currently a rare democracy in a region that has otherwise been inhospitable to political liberalization.
Elgie, Robert, McMenamin, Iain
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The Convergence of Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in France: Analysis of Systemic Tendencies from the Perspective of Sixty Years of the Fifth Republic [PDF]
Polish Political Science Yearbook, 2019 The paper deals with specific links between presidential and parliamentary elections in contemporary France. The main goal is to demonstrate that the timing of the two types of political events is a significant factor preserving the configuration of a ...
Łukasz Jakubiak
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Nordisk Østforum, 2016 Ukraine has repeatedly shifted between the two sub-types of semi-presidentialism, i.e. between premier-presidentialism and president-parliamentarism. The aim of this article is to discuss to what extent theoretical arguments against premier-presidential ...
Thomas Sedelius
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Baltic Journal of Political Science, 2013 Restoring their statehood in the early 1990s, Estonia and Latvia established parliamentary republics, while Lithuania opted for semi-presidentialism.
Zenonas Norkus
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Semi-presidentialism and Democratic Performance
Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2008 AbstractThere is a long-standing and widespread consensus that semi-presidentialism is bad for democratic performance. This article examines whether there is empirical evidence to support the arguments against semi-presidentialism. Examining countries that are incompletely consolidated and yet are not autocratic, we identify the relationship between ...
Elgie, Robert, McMenamin, Iain
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The systems of government of Senegal and Ivory Coast
Politeja, 2016 The paper deals with the contemporary systems of government in two Sub‑Saharan African states which belonged to the French colonial empire – Senegal and Ivory Coast.
Łukasz Jakubiak
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Mixed values and societal constraints: why the request for a "strong hand" will not lead to authoritarianism in Ukraine [PDF]
Соціологія, 2020 Given the global rise of illiberalism and Ukraine’s own post-revolutionary turbulence, what are the risks that the war-torn society descends to authoritarianism? In contrast to numerous alerts, I argue that none of the modern forms of authoritarianism is
Yuriy Matsiyevsky
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Retrospectives and perspectives on the choice of system of government in the history of Ukrainian statehood [PDF]
Annales Scientia Politica, 2023 The study focuses on the issues of retrospectives and perspectives of the choice of system of government in the history of Ukrainian statehood from the beginning of the 20th century until today.
Vitaliy S. Lytvyn
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The Czech Democratic Regime after 2012: A Transition to Semi-Presidentialism?
Sociologický Časopis, 2016 Until 2012 the Czech Republic was almost unambiguously classified as a parliamentary regime. However, in 2012, the previous scholarly consensus concerning the classification of the Czech Republic dissolved, and 'post-Duvergerian' scholars now regard the ...
Miloš Brunclík, Michal Kubát
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