La greffe et l’empreinte : chiisme et communisme dans le monde arabe by Nicolas Dot-Pouillard

“…In the aftermath of the 1979 Iranian revolution, the dynamic is reversed : the anti-imperialist and eschatological narrative coming from Teheran fascinates the Marxist lefts, and encourages conversions to political Islam. The third sequence opens in the nineties, with the end of the Cold War : since then, Arab communists have displayed a political use of Shiism, that is not religious. …”
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Parliamentary Elections in Bulgaria. «Deja vu»? by Kandel, P.E.

“…This election, despite some changes in the party structure of the National Assembly, actually testified to the deep disappointment of the disillusioned Bulgarian voters in the entire political spectre. …”
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Is China’s transition trapped and what should the West do about it? by Pei, M

“…</p> <p>Secondly, the brief argues that the imperative to preserve the political monopoly of a one-party system overrides the desire for a fully marketized economy; and determines the strategy of economic reform. …”

Sticky and slippery destinations for academic mobility : the case of Singapore by Chou, Meng-Hsuan

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Black-hundreds and old believers: frustrated alliance by Andrey Ivanov

“…In an attempt to bring Old Believers to their side, the right-wingers initially gained some ground but could not achieve the wide-sweeping of Old Ritual followers into the ranks of right-wing parties and unions. Drawing on publications in Old Ritual printed media, it is shown that right-wingers overestimated the conservatism of Russian Old Believers, most of whom did not sympathise with the “Ancient Regime” and hoped for its renovation, preferring opposition political forces to right-wing parties. …”
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HISTORICAL MEMORY AND OFFICIAL HOLIDAYS IN BULGARIA UNDER SOCIALISM by Petko St. Petkov

“…Particular attention is paid to substantiating the claim that the Third March was imposed as a national holiday by communist rule in the early 1990s. …”
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Mapping Chinese cross-border finance: actors, networks and institutional development by Töpfer, L

“…The first paper develops a politically sensitive framework of global financial networks, which conceptualises how bargaining dynamics within China’s party-state shape competitive hierarchies in Chinese capital markets. …”

Keprihatinan masyarakat Melayu-Islam di Malaysia selepas pilihan raya umum ke-12 tahun 2008 by Nor, M.R.M., Ngadiran, S.N.A., Yusoff, B.

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Malaysia's changed electoral landscape by Weiss, Meredith L.

“…While this forced consolidation allows the government to proceed, the array of political parties is deinstitutionalising, leaving a far less predictable electoral future.…”
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Support for democracy in Egypt: Survey data, 2011-2016 by Whitefield, S, Hassan, M, Kendall, E

“…Second, differences between supporters of different parties were minimal. A third feature of public opinion, however, illustrated clearly the nature of the country’s current democratic cross-roads because in 2011 there were strong levels of support for a ‘guardian army’ among supporters of all parties. …”

An Introduction to the Challenges of Decision-making in Governing Institutions in Iran (The State, as a Case Study) by Hamid Reza Rahmanizade Dehkordi

“…The research method in this article is descriptive-analytical and gathering data is based on documents, finally, statistical samples have been used to examine the process of several important political decisions. The specific finding of this article is that political decision-making is a multifaceted and complex phenomenon whose transparency, verification, and justification are closely related to the question of accountability and finally democratic mechanisms, and the existence of strong civil forces and political parties.…”
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The emotional voter: the impact of electoral campaigns and emotions on electoral behaviour in Britain by Kiss, C

“…Second, it is shown that emotions do influence political behavior as expected. Third, it is established that the effect of the campaign on turnout intentions is partly channeled through emotions. …”

Diesseits und jenseits. Slowenische Kunst nach den politischen Umbrüchen 1945 und 1991. Eine Reflexion by Jožef Muhovič

“…In the second part of the paper, the author attempts to follow the footsteps of the third Slovenian (retro)avant-garde and describe its forms, ideological concepts, and influences in the time before the second political turn. …”
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Moving toward a common goal via cross-sector collaboration: lessons learned from SARS to COVID-19 in Singapore by Kim, Soojin, Goh, Yuki, Kang, Brandon Jun Hong

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Improving institutional platforms for evidence-informed decision-making: getting beyond technical solutions by Jeffrey Mecaskey, Ben Verboom, Marco Liverani, Rhona Mijumbi-Deve, Nasreen S. Jessani

“…The involvement of third-party supranational organizations, however, poses challenges in terms of legitimacy and accountability.…”
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Malaysia's 13th general election: Sabah-Barisan Nasional fixed-deposit state? by Zaini Othman, Eko Prayitno Joko, Ramli Dollah, Amrullah Maraining, Kim, Jong Eop

“…Not only the dominant parties Barisan Nasional (BN) were shocked by the loss of significant numbers of seats but for the first time in the history of Malaysia politics, vis-à-vis, electoral affairs, they were denied a two-thirds majority in the Parliament. …”
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The dialogues of the Cyropaedia by Gera, D, Gera, Deborah Levine

Empowerment of urban agriculture community program’s participants in the Klang Valley, Malaysia by Nazuri, Nur Shuhamin

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Mehmet Köse (Ed.), Türk Diasporasının Siyasal Katılım Gündemi 2023 Seçimleri ve Diaspora (Political Participation Agenda of the Turkish Diaspora 2023 Elections and Diaspora); GAV P... by Osman Can Akdeniz

“…Moreover, in the parliamentary elections, 3 parliamentary seats were transferred to different parties with the addition of overseas votes. In light of this information, voting and political participation abroad is a very important issue both in academic studies and in politics itself. …”
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El asociacionismo rumano en Aragón (1990-2011) by Jorge Garris Mozota

“…Finally, regarding politics, there have been Romanian political parties in Aragón since 2008. …”
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