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Beyond Democratic Backsliding: Bureaucracy, Elite Dynamics and Administrative Change in Authoritarian Transitions

open access: yesGovernance, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how political and administrative elites shape regime transformations under authoritarian rule, proposing an elite‐centered analytical perspective that complements prevailing accounts of “democratic backsliding.” We show how embedding political–administrative relations within a broader elite‐theoretical framework clarifies ...
Kutsal Yesilkagit, Johan Christensen
wiley   +1 more source

Respecting Linear Orders for Supermajority Rules

open access: yes, 2023
We consider linear orders of finite alternatives constructed by aggregating individual preferences. Specifically, we focus on linear orders that respect modified collective preference relations derived from supermajority rules, where modifications are introduced through two procedures if cycles occur.
openaire   +2 more sources

Strategic Advocacy for Higher Education Research: Insights From US Agricultural Experiment Station Funding

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 251-265, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Amidst dwindling state funding and the legislative withdrawal from public university research support, a heightened political process shapes the allocation of scarce tax dollars. This article explores how advocacy within the political process influences funding support for higher education from state legislatures.
Gregory M. Perry   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sovereign Debt Restructuring: A Model-Law Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The existing contractual framework for sovereign debt restructuring is sorely inadequate. Whether or not their fault, nations sometimes take on debt burdens that become unsustainable.
Jansson, Magnus, Venkitaraman, Arun
core   +1 more source

Greek Debt: The Endgame Scenarios [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Perhaps Greece -- a country with a debt to GDP already approaching 150 percent and set to move even higher -- avoids a debt restructuring. Perhaps not.
Buchheit, Lee C., Gulati, Mitu
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Voting in Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Shipping Industry [PDF]

open access: yes
We examine the choice of voting rules by legal cartels with enforcement capabilities in the presence of uncertainty about demand and costs. We show that cartels face a trade-off between the commitment advantages of more stringent majority requirements ...
Cesar Martinelli, Richard Sicotte
core  

Japan – U.S. Relations under the Abe Doctrine: Shifting Policy in East Asia Regional Stability

open access: yesJournal of International Studies, 2017
Reelection of Shinzo Abe as Prime Minister provides a favorable climate for both Donald Trump’s first presidential visit to Japan and an improvement of Chinese-Japanese-U.S. bilateral relations.
Hendra Manurung
doaj  

A Comparison of Criminal Jury Decision Rules in Democratic Countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper furnishes jury system information about the twenty-eight democracies (excluding the United States) that have been consistently democratic since at least the early 1990s and have a population of five million people or more (with allowance for ...
Leib, Ethan J.
core   +1 more source

Supreme Court as Superweapon: A Response to Epps & Sitaraman [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Is the Supreme Court\u27s legitimacy in crisis? Daniel Epps and Ganesh Sitaraman argue that it is. In their Feature, How to Save the Supreme Court, they suggest legally radical reforms to restore a politically moderate Court.
Sachs, Stephen E.
core   +1 more source

Majorization in some symplectic weak supermajorizations

open access: yesLinear Algebra and its Applications
8 pages, The old version had some typos that are corrected in the new version. The typos were in Eq.(1.14) and Eq.(1.23). Also, proof of Corollary 1.5 is added in the new version. Accepted in Linear Algebra and its Applications.
Shaowu Huang, Hemant K. Mishra
openaire   +3 more sources

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