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Shrubs benefit from being functionally more conservative and distinct from neighbour trees

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Multi‐strata forests can enhance ecosystem functioning, with interactions between overstorey trees and understorey shrubs playing a pivotal role. However, how the structure and composition of neighbouring trees, together with shrub traits, influence shrub growth remains
Sai Peng, Chen Chen, Helge Bruelheide, Pablo Castro Sánchez‐Bermejo, Anpeng Cheng, Xianglu Deng, Sylvia Haider, Shan Li, Yi Li, Ting Tang, Yujie Xue, Haoru Yan, Bo Yang, Bernhard Schmid, Keping Ma, Xiaojuan Liu   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Presidentialization of Political Parties Due to Presidentialized Systems of Government: Theoretical  nsights with Reference to the Fifth French Republic

Teoria Polityki
The presidentialization of political parties is part of a broader phenomenon called the presidentialization of politics.
Łukasz Jakubiak
doaj   +1 more source

Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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Elections in Cape Verde, 1991-2016: Testing the second-order election model in a consolidated semi-presidential African democracy

Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 2019
In this article, we analyse patterns of turnout and electoral choices of Cape Verde’s citizens in different types of elections, looking at all legislative, presidential and local elections held between 1991 and 2016, and testing four hypotheses derived ...
José Santana Pereira, Susana Rogeiro Nina, Danielton Delgado   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE TERRITORIALIZATION OF ANGOLA'S REAL ESTATE FRONTIER: How Private‐led Housing Developments are Reshaping the Outskirts of Luanda

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Africa is recognized as the final frontier for urbanization and capitalism. Following a long wave of massive loans to promote state‐led developments, small private foreign and local developers are transforming the urban landscape on the outskirts of Luanda, forging partnerships with Angola's national and local governments and developing an ...
Higor Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

Shifting Power-Centres of Semi-Presidentialism: Exploring Executive Coordination in Lithuania [PDF]

, 2017
Despite more than two decades of research on semi-presidential regimes, we still know very little about the actual coordination between the president and the prime minister.
Sedelius, Thomas,, Sedelius, Thomas, Raunio, Tapio,, Raunio, Tapio, Thomas Sedelius, Tapio Raunio   +5 more
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EVICT, NEGLECT, OR INVEST? Community Power and the Politics of Urban Informality Governance in Jakarta

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do some informal neighborhoods receive public investment while others are neglected or evicted? This article addresses the inconsistent governmental responses to informal settlements in Jakarta, Indonesia, during the democratic period. State actions range from violent evictions to tolerance and community‐led improvements.
Kadek Wara Urwasi
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The Parliamentary Genesis of the French Semi-Presidentialism against the Background of the Process of Presidentialisation of the Fifth Republic

Politeja, 2018
The paper deals with the dynamics of the transformation of the semi‑presidential system of government established under the constitution of the Fifth Republic of France.
Łukasz Jakubiak
doaj   +1 more source

VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
wiley   +1 more source

PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN AUTOCRACIES: Conflicting Logics, Unintended Consequences and Contentious Participation in Angola's Orçamento Participativo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Participatory institutions are no longer confined to liberal democracies as autocrats around the world experiment with ‘authoritarian participation’. This also applies to the most successful democratic innovation of recent decades: participatory budgeting (PB).
DANIEL TJARKS
wiley   +1 more source