Venezuela: Political Confrontation and the World Community by Z. W. Iwanowski, D. M. Rozental

“…The miscalculations of the incumbent president were used in election campaigns in other Latin American countries and became one of the reasons for the defeat of left candidates, the subsequent ‘right drift’ leading to the isolation of the republic. …”
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Prospective cohort study of the evaluation of patient benefit from the redevelopment of a complete national forensic mental health service: the Dundrum Forensic Redevelopment Evalu... by Harry G Kennedy, Mary Davoren, Ken O’Reilly, Damian Mohan

“…They offer care and treatment to mentally disordered offenders who pose a high risk of serious violence to others. It is therefore incumbent on these services to systematically evaluate the outcomes of the care and treatment they deliver to ensure patient benefit in multiple domains. …”
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Lithuanian exile press during five decades of soviet ban by Silvija Vėlavičienė

“…While others, particularly the organization "Santara-Šviesa" (an active participant of which was the incumbent President of the Republic of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus), promoted the slogan "Face to Lithuania." …”
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Informing immigrant voters: Chinese-language media in New Zealand election campaigns, 2008–2020 by Kate McMillan, Fiona Barker, Caleb Hoyle

“…We find a strong relationship between incumbency and the amount of coverage received by leaders and other candidates of major political parties, although the incumbency benefit is stronger for the centre-right than for the centre-left. …”
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Balancing the books or winning votes: unveiling the power of fiscal strategies in local elections and the fate of prudent mayors by Krzysztof Kluza, Hanna Kociemska, Wojciech Rafał

“…The theory suggests that there are some incentives for incumbents to manipulate fiscal policy at the local level. …”
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Populism in the political culture of Turkey: The foreign policy dimension by P. V. Shlykov

“…Populist rhetoric helped Erdoğan to justify his almost two-decades-long incumbency and evade direct responsibility for economic hardships of the 2010s. …”
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Legislative Effectiveness: The legislative performance of house representatives of the 16th Philippine Congress by Joanna Marie Baroman

“…However, the lack of empirical inquiry on the legislative effectiveness of the members of the House of Representatives in the Philippines subjected constituents to rely on 'self-legislative' reporting among incumbents seeking re-election. This study aims to determine the legislative effectiveness of the House members of the 16th Congress using their primary authored bills. …”
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Contradictions of a mathematics didactic system in the realization of a traditional study model by Regina Novikienė, Liuda Šiaučiukėnienė

“…A student is only a listener trying to perceive what is said by a lecturer, whereas abilities are trained through intensive activities of a person itself and higher cognition goals may be achieved by allowing for expression; between the objectives and the exis­ting assessment system stimulating to reproduce knowledge, but not to demonstrate abilities and comprehension; between the experience of a learner and abstract conceptions perception of which is difficult for a mass student, thus he is not able to absorb them; between the incumbency of a lec­turer and his possibility to realize it. …”
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Political determinants of centre-state transfers: An empirical analysis across Indian states by Deepti Kohli

“…The regression estimations include various political controls such as, electoral competition between political parties, voter participation rate, government’s ideological leaning, centre-state partisan affiliation, government incumbency and a control for political lobbying. The findings of this study reveal a significant influence of various political forces on different categories of intergovernmental transfers in India. …”
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Team Assembly Mechanisms and the Knowledge Produced in the Mexico’s National Institute of Geriatrics: A Network Analysis and Agent-Based Modeling Approach by Carmen García-Peña, Luis Miguel Gutiérrez-Robledo, Augusto Cabrera-Becerril, David Fajardo-Ortiz

“…The three experiments kept similar values to the collaborating dynamics of INGER in terms of average team size and probabilities of choosing incumbents and external collaborators. The only difference among these experiments was the value of homophily defined as the trend to collaborate with research studies from the same field (14% corresponding to the 46% and 79%). …”
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