Elizabeth Wong, Karpal Singh and Hudud : can Pakatan survive differences? by Goh, Nur Firdaus Firoz

“…Since its success at the 8 March 2008 general election, Malaysia's opposition Pakatan Rakyat has seen challenges that often test the coaliton's fundamental differences. …”
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Pakistan's coming crisis by Malik, A, Tudor, M

“…Pakistan's 2024 elections delivered a shocking surprise. Imran Khan's PTI won the largest number of seats amid heavy state repression. …”

Misdated popes: a mistake in the chronology of seventh-century bishops of Rome by Jankowiak, M

“…The letter sent by Kyros of Alexandria to Sergios of Constantinople in 638 appears to contain a chronological contradiction: it implies that Sergios was aware before his death of the election of Severinus as the new bishop of Rome two months earlier. …”

Policy uncertainty and household savings by Giavazzi, F, McMahon, M

“…We find that household saving increases significantly following the increase in political uncertainty observed in the run-up to the 1998 German general election. We also find evidence of a labor supply response by workers who can use the margin offered by part-time employment. …”

Low-rank approximations of nonseparable panel models by Fernández-Val, I, Freeman, H, Weidner, M

“…Numerical examples and an empirical application to the effect of election day registration on voter turnout in the US illustrate the properties and usefulness of our methods. …”

Lessons from a retrospective look at India’s upstream sector by Elango, P

“…In May 2014, a general election in India resulted a single party holding a parliamentary majority for the first time in 25 years. …”

Of crises, constitutionalism and irresponsible advisers by McLean, I, Peterson, S

“…Permanent private secretaries to the monarch are not elected, nor are they chosen on civil service criteria. …”

Political Extremism in the 1920s and 1930s: Do German Lessons Generalize? by De Bromhead, A, Eichengreen, B, O'Rourke, K

“…We examine the impact of the Great Depression on the share of votes for right-wing extremists in elections in the 1920s and 1930s. We confirm the existence of a link between political extremism and economic hard times as captured by growth or contraction of the economy. …”

Right Wing Political Extremism in the Great Depression. by Bromhead, A, Eichengreen, B, O'Rourke, K

“…We examine the impact of the Great Depression on the share of votes for right-wing anti-system parties in elections in the 1920s and 1930s. We confirm the existence of a link between political extremism and economic hard times as captured by growth or contraction of the economy. …”

Political discourse in Malaysian blogs / Zanariah Jano, Siti Rohana Omar dan Norun Najjah Ahmat by Jano, Zanariah, Omar, Siti Rohana, Ahmat, Norun Najjah

“…This paper analyzes blogs quantitatively in terms of freedom of expression, propaganda and compares blog content to analogous samples of content from mainstream newspapers in Malaysia in the midst of 2008 election. The study has revealed that blogging has developed new arena for political discussion, given voice to more criticism of policies, and weakened state control over political discourse.…”
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Let parliament be one of reconciliation by Abd Razak, Dzulkifli

“…Although many used to have cynical views about it —it was often a case of sour grapes—this may not be so after the recent general election. Most were stunned by the "tsunamilike" sociopolitical impact which numbed almost everyone, not unlike that of the Aceh tragedy of 2004. …”
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6.852J / 18.437J Distributed Algorithms, Fall 2001 by Lynch, Nancy A. (Nancy Ann), 1948-

“…Process synchronization, allocation of computational resources, distributed consensus, distributed graph algorithms, election of a leader in a network, distributed termination, deadlock detection, concurrency control, communication, and clock synchronization. …”
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Cacophonous geographies : the symbolic and material landscapes of race by Brand, Anna Livia

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Going from the talk to doing the walk: extending Malaysian public sector transparency by Abu Bakar, Nur Barizah, Mohamad, Muslim Har Sani

“…The most recent Malaysian general election held in 2007 saw an unprecedented result which denied the ruling coalition, the National Front (BN) a two-thirds majority which it had enjoyed for the last 50 years. …”
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The direct electoral connection in the European Union by Wilson, T

“…This thesis thus examines what impacts the linkage between citizens and their elected representatives in the direct channel of representation. …”

Legacy of Datuk Seri Mohd. Shafie Apdal (DSSA) in Semporna’s Parliament in GE-14 by Nordin Sakke, Md Saffie Abd. Rahim, Ramli Dollah, Amrullah Maraining, Wan Shawaluddin Wan Hassan, Fadilah Sarbi

“…To understand this issue, the election results starting from GE-9 were analyzed along with an analysis of the content of on-line media reports. …”
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The labour movement in Clydeside politics, 1914-1922 by McLean, I, McLean, Iain

“…<p>The history of the Labour movement in the Clyde valley between the outbreak of the First World War and the General Election of 1922 has always attracted great interest. …”

The Reliability of Electronic Voting Machines in Georgia by Stewart III, Charles H.

“…Following the 2000 presidential election, the state of Georgia instituted the most comprehensive overhaul of voting technology in the country. …”
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Study Shows Ballot Design and Voter Preparation Could Have Eliminated Sarasota Florida Voting Errors by Selker, Ted

“…Election results showed extremely inconsistent voting rates for two high profile races in the Florida counties of Sarasota, Charlotte, and Sumter on November 7, 2006. …”
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Youth and the "Jokowi effect" : strike while the iron is hot? by Chen, Jonathan, Syailendra, Emirza Adi

“…Is his appeal among youth representative of a desire for change beyond the man that can last until the 2014 elections? This commentary is the first in a series on Indonesia Election Watch (No 1).…”
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