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Varieties of semi-presidentialism and their impact on nascent democracies [PDF]
, 2007 Semi-presidentialism is the situation where the constitution identifies both a directly elected president and a prime minister responsible to the legislature. There are now some 58 countries in the world with a semi-presidential constitution.
Elgie, Robert
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sedimentary charcoal elongation is increasingly being used in paleoecology to distinguish herbaceous from woody fuel in past fires. However, the relationship between charcoal morphotypes and plant types has never been formally tested in tropical environments, despite its potential to improve understanding of fire regimes and deforestation, and
Fiona Cornet +12 more
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Politologija, 1999 This article evaluates the performance of semi-presidential arrangements in two newly-democratic Central and Eastern European countries, Lithuania and Poland, and addresses the question whether stable democratic performance of the regime can be attained ...
Vykintas Pugačiauskas
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Revista Neiba, 2020 O presente artigo tem por objetivo refletir acerca dos mecanismos de legitimação das novas formas de dominação autoritária na região que emergiram nos anos 60 e 70.
Gastón Ernesto Passi Livacic +1 more
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Measuring Partial Membership in Categories: Alternative Tools [PDF]
, 2014 Governmen
Elkins, Zachary
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Women remain significantly underrepresented in political leadership worldwide. This study examines how different combinations of government accountability mechanisms enhance women's political representation (WPR) as a pathway to leadership in 30 OECD countries.
Samira Nazar, Seyed Ashkan Zarghami
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the use of multitemporal vegetation cover analysis as a tool to assess the ecological effectiveness of judicial decisions that recognize the rights of nature, using Colombia's 2016 T‐622 decision on the Atrato River as a case study.
Juan Camilo Ríos‐Orjuela +4 more
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.In the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. election, the boundary between activism and extremism blurred, with election officials reporting violent threats and false accusations of election fraud. From a symbolic interactionist perspective, these attacks provide a unique lens for examining the consequences of being falsely labeled a criminal.
Steven Windisch
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Teoria PolitykiThe presidentialization of political parties is part of a broader phenomenon called the presidentialization of politics.
Łukasz Jakubiak
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Process and text: teaching students to review the literature [PDF]
, 2006 Examiners of dissertations regularly have to endure “literature reviews” that consist of extended lists of mini-summaries of books. Indeed, quite often “dissertations” amount to little more than a list of book-summaries masquerading as an argument. While
McMenamin, Iain
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