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The declarations of independents: Open‐ended survey responses and the nature of non‐identification
American 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
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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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Growth, Centrism and Semi-Presidentialism: Forecasting the Portuguese General Elections [PDF]
Electoral behaviour in recently established democracies has been more frequently treated from the point of view of its unpredictability, volatility and personalistic elements than that of its "fundamentals".
Pedro C. Magalhães +1 more
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Long‐run confidence: Estimating uncertainty when using long‐run multipliers
American 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
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Anali 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
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President and parliament: Influence on the stability of the state
Politologija, 1997 In this article Talat-Kelpša attempts to depict a motley picture concerning the impact that the interinstitutional relations of the president and the parliament derive in the process of establishing a politically stable state and applies an attractive ...
Laimonas Talat-Kelpša
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Understanding Semi-Presidentialism in political science: A review of the latest debate
, 2020 In the article, a critical review of the most recent debate on semi-presidentialism in political science is presented. The author focuses on five controversial problems: the interpretation of semi-presidentialism as a unique system that differs from ...
Zaznaev O.
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Captured participatory institutions: Theory and evidence from Venezuela's Consejos Comunales
American 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
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The Electoral Geography of the 2016 Presidential Election in Portugal
Sfera Politicii, 2016 Portugal elected a new president in January, this year. While the campaign was rather atypical, with a majority of independent candidates and a low involvement of the parties, we employ here an analysis of the election’s electoral geography, in order to ...
Giorgian-Ionuţ GUŢOIU, Sabin PANDELEA
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The Constitutional Court of Romania against the direction of the constitutional moment of 1991
Journal of Legal Studies, 2017 The year 1991, the year when the current Romanian fundamental law came in to force, designed a constitutional moment built on profound political and societal emotions.
Roghină Răzvan Cosmin
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