HISTORICISING PARTY INTERNAL DEMOCRACY AND THE CHALLENGE OF DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION IN NIGERIA’S FOURTH REPUBLIC, 1999-2023 by ADESOTE SAMSON ADESOLA, AKANDE SUNDAY ADEKUNLE

“… The main thrust of this paper is to historicise party internal democracy and the challenge of democratic consolidation in the Nigeria’s Fourth Republic between 1999 and 2023. …”
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The German Social Democratic Party Between Idealistic Pro-Europeanism And Domestic Ideological Priorities In The Post-Reunification Germany by Uğur Tekiner

“…The main thrust of this article is to examine the evolution of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands – SPD)’s Europhile position since German reunification from a broader ideological perspective. …”
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Means of discourse manipulations in political party programs in Spain by I. V. Smirnova

“…The main characteristic of oppositional programs is the criticism of the power, vice versa, the dominant party's programs confirm the correctness of their policy. …”
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The party and political landscape of Germany after the European Parliament elections by Vladislav B. Belov

“…The author analyzes the election programs of the main parties and the voting results. In his opinion, they reflected the main processes taking place in the German party-political landscape over the past few years, including the ongoing fragmentation and change of electoral preferences. …”
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What constitutes a new party? The lack of a standard operationalization and the way forward by Gideon Rahat

“…This article reviews the approaches to party newness and identifies their main features. …”
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One year of Donald Tusk’s government: what has changed in Poland? by Oleg Yu. Mikhalev

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The role of political parties in multi-level environmental governance in the European Union and Germany by A. D. Lisenkova

“…For practical illustration, the climate policy guidelines of Germany’s main national parties (the Christian Democratic Union of Germany and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the Alternative for Germany, the Free Democratic Party of Germany, the Left and the Alliance 90 / The Greens) and their European affiliations (the European People’s Party, the Party of the European Socialists, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, the European Green Party and the Party of European Left) were compared with an emphasis on the new targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. …”
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Newspaper “Rech” in the July Crisis of 1914 by B. S. Kotov

“…"Rech", founded in 1906 by the Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets), was on the eve of the First World War one of the most important liberal organs of the Russian press. …”
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The Last Word Political posters: communicators or decorations? by Lynette Fourie

“…Posters are generally more effective in raising awareness than actually persuading voters to vote for a specific party. Political posters contribute mainly to image building, the reinforcement of party support, and the visibility of the party, which could ultimately lead to a bandwagon effect (Trent & Friedenberg, 1995:269-271; Maarek, 1995:105). …”
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La famille Bhutto ou les « martyrs de la démocratie » au Pakistan by Lionel Baixas

“…The main reason is their unfitness or reluctance to institutionalize their party, the Pakistan people’s Party, which they relinquished so as strenghten their personal rule due to their obsession with the civil and military bureaucracy.…”
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« Enlever les casquettes politiques ». Rhétorique gestionnaire et euphémisation du politique chez les élus locaux du Front des forces socialistes algérien by Layla Baamara

“…While the FFS deputies are opposed to the political action of the government and the parliamentary majority, local elected officials of the FFS cooperate with members of partisan organizations of this majority, mainly the National Liberation Front (RND) and the National Democratic Congregation (RND), which are the traditional targets of the party. …”
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The iconography of persuasion by Shepherd Mpofu, Trust Matsilele, Tawanda Nyawasha

“…This election, for the first time since the rebranding of the main opposition, the Democratic Alliance, saw that party losing its momentum, culminating in the eventual resignation of the party’s first black leader, Mmusi Maimane. …”
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CORPORATISM IN WESTERN EUROPE: CURRENT STATE AND PROSPECTS FOR EVOLUTION by Р. Ja. Feldman

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The U.S.-Turkey ‘Model Partnership’: Testing the Limits (2009–2010) by A. I. Aliyeva

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Between giants and windmills: Lulismo in the presidential elections of 2018 by Mércia Alves, Joyce Miranda Leão Martins

“…Lulismo, as a broad phenomenon of adhesion to the political figure of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is also based on the approval of the image of “man of the people,” which was mobilized in the 2002 elections and continuously evoked against the Brazilian Social Democratic Party. In this article, we analyze the electoral propaganda strategies of the Workers’ Party at a time when its major leader was imprisoned and its main opponents were others: the “dragons” of anti-petismo. …”
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Jacobin, projet intellectuel et politique. Entretien avec Mathieu Bonzom by Alice Béja, Mathieu Bonzom

“…He also discusses how the magazine positions itself with regards to the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America.…”
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Elections 2008 au Ghana : esquisse de géographie électorale, entre permanences et recompositions by Isabelle Greig

“…Two trends shape the electoral geography that arises from the votes: the upholding of the ethno-regional bastions of the two dominant parties, and the swing of four regions to the opposition party, which shows complex developments on a local scale mainly due to socio-economic factors.…”
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NEGATION, INCLUDING, GRADUAL OBLIVION: STATE STRATEGIES ON SOVIET HERITAGE IN GEORGIA, ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN by A. A. Tokarev

“…The article postulates clear differences between the study of postcolonialism and the post-Soviet space, and therefore the author presents his own operationalization of the "imperial heritage" study.The countries of the South Caucasus are compared based on the following criteria: a number of ethnic Russians as the main constituent of the Soviet people living in the country; a status of the Russian language; national symbols (statutes, architecture, Soviet state symbols, the hierarchy of military ranks), and political practices (functioning of the party systems, type of sovereignty, degree of freedom of speech and political competition).StudyingAzerbaijan,ArmeniaandGeorgiadifferently coming out of theUSSRand using the disintegration of theUSSRto construct their national narratives in accordance with their own ideas about the ways of development, the author finds a repetition of the Soviet system elements.Each of the states demonstrates a unique combination of “post-Soviet Soviet” phenomena. …”
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SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE KURDES IN SYRIA: ORIGINS, FORMS AND INTERNATIONAL PROSPECTS by M. Dyurre

“…The power vacuum in the north of Syria was able to fill the center-left party “Democratic Union”. This political force is in contact with the official Syrian authorities and, at the same time, receives US support. …”
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Le peuple est-il soluble dans la constitution ? Leçons tunisiennes by Jean-Philippe Bras

“…Also, the day after their election, members of the Constituent Assembly were faced with virulent debates on the scope and duration of the mandate entrusted to them by the voting people, who expressed their fear of having the revolution confiscated by poll winners (mainly members of the Islamic party Ennahda), who had not been, far from it, major players in the revolutionary moment. …”
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