We study incumbency advantage and the electoral returns to pork and patronage over ten legislative periods from 1948 to 1992 for two political parties — the Christian Democrats (DC) and the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) — in Italy's lower house of representatives, the Chamber of Deputies. Adapting a regression discontinuity design to Italy's open-list system of proportional representation, we s...

T a r g e t i n g t h e M a r k e t f o r first noticed a problem when they were S t o l e n G o o d s : P u t t i n g a plagued with an unusually high number of N e e d l e i n t o t h e H a y s t a c k "trailer theft" calls for service. During the first eight months of 1996, more than 37 trailJudge's Commentary ers were stolen and only three trailers were Officers and agencies wishing to enga...

Mentions of politicians in news articles can reflect politician interactions on their daily activities. In this work, we present a mathematical model to represent such interactions as a graph, and we use it to predict the political affiliation for a list of deputies of the Republic of Ireland. Our results show that there is a relation between political affiliations and mentions in news reports.

1. In accordance with Rule 10.2.c. of the Rules of Procedure for the meetings of the Ministers' Deputies, the Danish Delegation wishes to make the following reservation: "Paragraph 72 of the appendix is not acceptable to Denmark to the extent that it allows for body searches being carried out by persons other than a medical doctor. And in the opinion of Danish Authorities, an intimate examinati...

The article analyzes the compositions of Kuibyshev and Ulyanovsk regional Councils Workers Deputies post-war period IIIV convocations using prosopographic method. analysis composition was carried out on six grounds (age, educational, party, gender, national a sign distinguishing deputies councils by social status). attempts to show dynamics improving educational level convocations. On example R...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the views of specialists in occupational medicine about business ethics in occupational medicine. METHOD A qualitative study with face to face focus groups and successive reviews of the draft consensus was undertaken of all accredited specialists in occupational medicine who were members of the south Wales and west of England group of the Society of Occupational Medic...

BACKGROUND Health care systems should assign quality improvement as their main mission. Clinical governance (CG) is a key strategy to improve quality of health care services. The Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) has promoted CG as a framework for safeguarding quality and safety in all hospitals since 2009. The purpose of this study was to explore perceived facilitators a...

On March 2021, Turkey’s President announced a new Human Rights Action Plan (HRAP), supported by the Council of Europe, to reform judiciary system and strengthen democratic participation. Although rights claims Kurds Alevis have been prominent, HRAP mentions neither name. Instead, it includes articles about improving religious minorities fighting discrimination hate, advance pluralism, revising ...