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From:Demokratizatsiya (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This article charts the last decade of Georgian politics (2003-2013) through theories of semiauthoritarianism and democratization. It first dissects Saakashvili's system of dominant-power politics, which...
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From:Ahfad Journal (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe strengthening of local governance is very important to enhance citizen's participation and guarantee more and better responses to people's needs at the local level. Governance hierarchy in Sudan is structured as a...
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From:Healthcare Financial Management (Vol. 66, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIn the wake of the election, lawmakers continue to grapple with challenges--such as the fiscal cliff--that so far have stubbornly eluded bipartisan solutions. They are reaching across the aisle and renewing efforts to...
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From:Middle East Policy (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe large-scale killing of civilians during Israel's three-week assault on the Gaza Strip in 2008-09 received widespread condemnation from human-rights advocates and international legal scholars the world over. In both...
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From:Design WeekJames Dyson's Ingenious Britain report for the Conservative Party has thrown the spotlight firmly on the role of design in future Government policy thinking. Laura Snoad sounds out senior figures from the industry for...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 24, Issue 33) Peer-ReviewedLabour support for specialist staff: 'One of the best ways we can improve care for all patients with long-term conditions is by supporting and investing in specialist nurses. 'This is why we are calling for every...
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From:Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 40, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedExisting accounts of the Madiun incident or revolt of September 1948 suggest that it was a mainly domestic incident, with little direct link to international communism, whether through instructions or the international...
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From:Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues (Issue 16) Peer-ReviewedIn the second decade of the twentieth century, Yiddish reading circles for Jewish women began springing up in various cities of North America. Some of them were sponsored by the local public library, while others were...
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From:Journal of Third World Studies (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION Recently Turkish political agenda is occupied by the debates on the possibility and/or necessity of holding early general elections. The last general elections were held in November 2002, which legally...
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From:International Journal (Vol. 64, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedClimate change arose on the international agenda in the late 1980s. It was a period of international "greening" and Canada joined the climate change bandwagon. Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was even lauded...
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From:Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge (Vol. 6, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWomen in Germany played a role in the rise and fall of the Nazis. Many historians have written about the various roles of women before and during the Third Reich. However, there are many different categories that...
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From:Capital & Class (Issue 92) Peer-ReviewedThis article contests prevailing academic conceptions of the modernisation of parliamentary Left parties. According to these accounts, 'modernisation' is viewed either as a pragmatic adaptation to international...
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From:Design WeekThe Labour Party has produced a manifesto without Tony Blair on its cover and the Conservatives have created an unbranded, DIY-style black and white book. The Liberal Democrats offer a budget, newspaper-style manifesto....
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From:World Policy Journal (Vol. 23, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCan the Democratic Party use its newfound influence in Congress to align the United States with the international consensus on everything from land mines to global warming to nuclear proliferation by upholding and...
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From:Contemporary Southeast Asia (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 2005, party elections were held for the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) and Gerakan Raykat Malaysia (Gerakan, or Malaysian People's Movement), the two main Chinese-based political parties in the ruling Barisan...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 30, Issue 3)THE SOURCE: "Theory of Partisan Relativity" by Alan Ehrenhalt, in Governing, March 2006. THE FEROCIOUS PARTISANSHIP in Washington has not stopped at the Capitol Beltway. It has swept state legislatures across the...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 16, Issue 20)Branding is one of the key weapons in the three main parties' arsenal, as Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats jostle for position prior to the 7 June General Election. The established party logos --...
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From:International Journal of Comparative Sociology (Vol. 45, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedThis article traces the factors that led to the adoption of the Charter of the French Language in Quebec in 1977 and the Latvian Language Law in 1999. Concerns for the French language in Quebec in the 1960s and 1970s,...
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From:Social Policy (Vol. 28, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe proposal to shift towards non-partisan elections has been deemed unsuitable by majority of political scientists. Such an occurrence will diminish citizens' access to information on candidates for government...
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From:Journal of Current Chinese Affairs (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: The political strategies used to attract Taiwanese Millennials is a puzzling topic. This article analyses the strategies the two main political parties have implemented in recent years to do so. In the...