The Mexican Ruling Party: Stability and Authority

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Legislative Policy-Making Authority, Party System Size, and Party System Aggregation

How does the size of the legislative prize, particularly the internal organization of legislatures, shape the legislative party system? While existing studies focus upon the electoral system and the regime type, we argue that the nationalization and fragmentation of the national legislative party system are related to the size of the legislative prize itself: that is, how the legislature’s inte...

Ruling out and ruling in neural codes.

The subject of neural coding has generated much debate. A key issue is whether the nervous system uses coarse or fine coding. Each has different strengths and weaknesses and, therefore, different implications for how the brain computes. For example, the strength of coarse coding is that it is robust to fluctuations in spike arrival times; downstream neurons do not have to keep track of the deta...

The Role of the Dominant Party of the Republic of Kazakhstan and China's Ruling Party in a Country's Modernization: Similarities and Differences

The purpose of this work is to identify the positive and negative aspects of parties’ participation in the country’s modernization, which in turn, will help a country to determine the necessary steps to improve the social-economic development. The article considers a question of the role of the dominating party of Kazakhstan and ruling party of China in the country’s modernization. Using a comp...

Non-Ruling Parties in a Multi-Party Authoritarian Regime: Case of Russia under Putin

Recent research on the role of quasi-democratic institutions in non-democratic regimes finds differential effects of legislatures on economic performance and regime stability across subtypes of non-democracy. This empirically observed variation has however remained a “black box” lacking a micro-theoretical foundation. This paper helps bridge this gap by proposing a theory of two types of non-ru...