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Proximity, candidates, and presidential power: how directly elected presidents shape the legislative party system [PDF]
, 2014 The impact of presidential coattails on the legislative party system is a highly intuitive idea. The coattails effect is believed to depend on the number of presidential candidates and the size of the presidential prize. This article proposes a different
Bucur, Cristina +3 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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The semi-presidential system of Cape Verde: the relationship between the executive and the legislative powers = O sistema semi-presidencialista caboverdiano: a relação entre os poderes executivo e legislativo [PDF]
, 2009 e article analyses the relationship established between the executive and legislative powers in the Cape Verdean government system where researchers seek to understand it, taking into account their theoretical and constitutional setting practice.
A. Schreyer +6 more
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A long and winding road: a brief history of the idea of a ‘government of national unity’ in Timor-Leste and its current implications [PDF]
, 2016 In this Discussion Paper, I consider first the academic debate on the establishment of democracy and the role of political competition and cooperation as a background to the current Timorese government formula. This is followed by a brief historical tour
Rui Graca Feijo
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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The constitutional rationalization of the separation of powers: The case of Serbia [PDF]
Zbornik 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
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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Government and OppositionIn 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
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La guerre civile (mondiale ?) et le dialogue Schmitt-Benjamin
Astérion, 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
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