Introduction Partnerships can vary in size, the nature of the parties involved, and the scope of their work. But at their core, partnerships share some fundamental elements. In the philanthropic world, partnerships are usually voluntary and bring together parties with mutual goals and some level of shared responsibility. Some foundations have partnered with other private philanthropies as well ...

Minimum asset and liability insurance requirements must often be met in order for parties to participate in potentially harmful activities. Such financial responsibility requirements may improve parties’ decisions whether to engage in harmful activities and, if so, their efforts to reduce risk. However, the requirements may undesirably prevent some parties with low assets from engaging in activ...

Future quantum information networks will consist of quantum and classical agents, who have the ability to communicate in a variety of ways with trusted and untrusted parties and securely delegate computational tasks to untrusted large-scale quantum computing servers. Multipartite quantum entanglement is a fundamental resource for such a network and, hence, it is imperative to study the possibil...

Building on attribution and interdependence theories, two experiments tested the hypothesis that close friends of victims (third parties) are less forgiving than the victims themselves (first parties). In Experiment 1, individuals imagined a scenario in which either their romantic partner or the romantic partner of a close friend committed the identical relationship offense. Third parties were ...

The evolution of studies of political parties of constitution: The first and second periods show that the evolution of parties indicates that researchers' attitude to political pheno-mena also coincide with the evolution of political realities has been transformed, and the consideration of ideologies in the analysis of the parties have replaced with religious perspectives and anti-authoritarian...

This paper reports an explorative analysis on the development of legitimacy across 20 European democracies. I contend that processes representing democratic performance are conducive to changes in legitimacy. A conceptual and empirical discussion is presented to establish this relationship. Democratic performance appears to change due to less trust in parties as representatives and variations i...

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