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Divided executives and democratisation [PDF]
, 2006 This article examines the effect of a divided executive on democratisation in mixed systems where presidents are directly elected and prime ministers are responsible to the legislature.
Elgie, Robert, McMenamin, Iain
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co‐mediated, for example, within and through place‐specific waterscapes and their socio‐technical infrastructures.
Moritz Kasper +2 more
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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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FEMINISTS VERSUS MONUMENTS? From Protests to Anti‐monuments in Mexico City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of heritage spaces and monuments in the Historic Centre of Mexico City during ongoing feminist mobilizations. Feminists have claimed that the Mexican government is more concerned about protecting monuments and urban heritage than acting to prevent gender‐based violence and femicide.
Fernando Gutiérrez
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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
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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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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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The president in Lithuanian political system: Search for position and power
Politologija, 1998 Appeal of the Government to the Constitutional Court dated December 17, 1997, was aimed at judging whether the ruling of Seimas „On the Agenda of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania" dated December 10, 1997, went in no counteraction to the ...
Alvidas Lukošaitis
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Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
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