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Negotiating Centralization: How Local Networks Reshaped Scotland's National Care Service Reform

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Centralizing reforms frequently diverge from their original designs, yet the processes through which this divergence occurs remain insufficiently understood. This article examines Scotland's National Care Service reform (2021–2025), a major recentralization that underwent significant modification following sustained engagement from local ...
Awais Mashkoor
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Coalition Opportunity Structures and Advocacy Coordination in Consensus and Majoritarian Democracies

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Research on advocacy coalitions suggests that belief homophily—the tendency of actors to coordinate based on shared policy beliefs—drives coalition formation. However, coalition opportunity structures, which are shaped by institutional contexts, may influence the extent to which belief homophily matters.
Keiichi Satoh, Antti Gronow, Tuomas Ylä‐Anttila, Ana Delicado, Luisa Schmidt, Pradip Swarnakar, Paul M. Wagner, Sun‐Jin Yun   +7 more
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Son los partidos los que eligen los sistemas electorales (o las leyes de Duverger cabeza abajo)

Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 2013
Este artículo presenta, discute y contrasta la hipótesis de que es el número de partidoslo que puede explicar la elección de los sistemas electorales, más que al revés.
Josep M. Colomer
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The Unexpected Actor? Civil‐Military Relations and Regulatory Agency Control in Brazil

Governance, Volume 39, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Democratic backsliding around the world has sparked debate about its impact on public administration and governance. This article explores a growing yet less visible phenomenon threatening democracy. It examines the influence exerted by authoritarian populists over autonomous regulatory agencies through militarized patronage, that is, the ...
Bruno Queiroz Cunha, Felix G. Lopez, M. Kerem Coban   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sistemas electorales parlamentarios y modelos de representación política: efecto de los distritos electorales, la fórmula electoral y el tamaño del congreso [PDF]

Revista de Derecho Electoral, 2015
El trabajo analiza los sistemas electorales contemporáneos de América Latina para las elecciones parlamentarias desde una perspectiva comparada. Se analizan los elementos constitutivos del sistema electoral (fórmula electoral, magnitud promedio de las ...
José Enrique Molina Vega
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Video Assistant Referee(ndums): A Populist Weapon or Effective Tool to Stop Autocrats in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America?

Latin American Policy, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT In recent years, video assistant referee systems have been increasingly used to correct unfair decisions in sports. Similarly, I argue that constitutional referendums play a corrective role in hybrid or competitive authoritarian regimes, where the electoral referee is biased and the government enjoys unfair advantages.
Muhammet Derviş Mete
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Elecciones generales de 1996 : estudio de los efectos de diversos sistemas electorales

Revista de las Cortes Generales, 1998
SUMARIO: 1.- Introducción. 2.- Resultados de la Aplicación de Diversos Sistemas Electorales.
Carlos Vidal Prado
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Lead, link, or leverage? An integrative framework to assess different government roles in collaborative governance processes across political systems

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 971-993, November 2025.
Abstract Collaborative governance is an emerging phenomenon through which governments nowadays are seeking to address today's societal challenges. Oftentimes, this requires governments to assume different roles and responsibilities. To unpack this multidimensionality, this study establishes an integrative framework distinguishing between a leading ...
Erin Sullivan, Bert Fraussen, Caelesta Braun   +2 more
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Putinism and Markets: How (and Why) Do They Fit Together?

The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 4, Page 628-645, October 2025.
Abstract In Russia, positive attitudes toward a free market economy and competition are firmly associated with the “Western” intellectual imports the country experienced in the 1990s. Anti‐Western intellectuals and politicians typically embrace an anti‐market stance calling for an economy with greater level of governmental interventions.
Alexander Libman
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AFYA Crossroads: Balancing Public Expectations With Fiscal Responsibility in Kuwait's Health Insurance for Retirees

World Medical &Health Policy, Volume 17, Issue 3, Page 491-495, September 2025.
ABSTRACT The AFYA health insurance scheme, introduced in 2014, aimed to supplement state healthcare services for retirees through private coverage. Initially celebrated as a progressive reform to alleviate pressure on public healthcare services, AFYA expanded to include widows and housewives, reaching nearly 200,000 beneficiaries by 2024. Consequently,
Abdullah Alibrahim, Yuree Noh, Hala Sawas   +2 more
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