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Reaching the Summit or a Plateau? The EU–New Zealand Relationship in the Indo‐Pacific

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines New Zealand's perceptions of the European Union's Indo‐Pacific Strategy through interviews with government officials and foreign policy influencers. Despite viewing the EU positively as a like‐minded partner committed to the rule‐based international order, New Zealand respondents demonstrated limited understanding of the ...
Matthew Castle   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The public agglomeration effect: Urban–rural divisions in government efficiency and political preferences

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Why and when do cities vote for the left? The emergence of the urban–rural divide in the United States in the 1930s is inconsistent with canonical theories of cleavages. This paper introduces an explanation: agglomeration effects. The provision of government services is more efficient in urban environments because of nonrivalries, economies of
Theo Serlin
wiley   +1 more source

Public Opinion and the ‘Presidentialization’ of Semi-Presidential Systems: Explaining Support for a Stronger and More Confrontational Presidency

open access: yesGovernment and Opposition
In a semi-presidential system, which is the most common regime type in Europe, a separately elected president shares executive powers with the government.
Vesa Koskimaa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The declarations of independents: Open‐ended survey responses and the nature of non‐identification

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While many Americans identify as politically “independent,” conventional wisdom suggests most are covert partisans, especially “leaners.” However, we argue that independents exhibit distinct attitudes toward political parties. Analyzing American National Election Studies open‐ended responses from 1984 to 2020, we employ structural topic models
Maxwell B. Allamong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Long‐run confidence: Estimating uncertainty when using long‐run multipliers

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Researchers are often interested in the long‐run relationship (LRR) between variables where the dependent variable has dynamic properties. Though determining the long‐run multiplier (LRM) for an independent variable is straightforward, correctly estimating the significance of the LRM is often difficult, especially when time series are short ...
Mark David Nieman, David A. M. Peterson
wiley   +1 more source

Constitutional Models of Semi-Presidential Systems of Government in Russia and Poland

open access: yesAnali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva, 2006
The establishment of new political systems in Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of communist regimes implied a decision on a new system of government instead of the earlier proclaimed assembly system.
Davor Boban
doaj  

The constitutional rationalization of the separation of powers: The case of Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2019
The main goal of this paper is to analyze the modalities of the separation of powers in the constitutional state. The starting point is that "pure" forms of separation of powers no longer exist even in traditional constitutional states, whereas in the so-
Pejić Irena
doaj  

La guerre civile (mondiale ?) et le dialogue Schmitt-Benjamin

open access: yesAstérion, 2015
In his criticism of Weimar liberal democracy, Carl Schmitt mainly shows his opposition to pluralism. The State sovereignty that he wants to maintain takes on the form of intensified presidentialism and he thus intends to save the substance of the German ...
Ninon Grangé
doaj   +1 more source

Captured participatory institutions: Theory and evidence from Venezuela's Consejos Comunales

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Can participatory institutions (PIs) facilitate development when captured by the government? We propose an original theoretical framework to investigate how changing incumbent priorities can shape the developmental and political effects of captured PIs.
Jared Abbott, Jose Morales‐Arilla
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative Research of Semi-Presidential Systems in Central and Eastern Europe: the Problems of Conceptual Stretching, Selection Bias, Typologisation and Denomination

open access: yesAnali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva, 2006
The author deals with the theoretical and methodological problems of comparative research of semi-presidential systems in Central and Eastern Europe. The first part of the article outlines three strands of interpretation that refute Duverger’s concept of
Mirjana Kaspović
doaj  

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