Although parties’ preferences for office and policy goals have been featured by many rational choice models of party behavior a majority coalition theories, the literature still lacks measure comprehensive analysis how vary among parties across countries. This study aims to fill this gap presenting results an original expert survey protocol, which finds that pursue both simultaneously as is sou...

Let’s talk about accountability and legitimate expectations for the success of new systems to improve schools. Alignment, the linchpin of standardsbased accountability systems, refers to the relationship, that is, the lining up, of goals, standards, curriculum, capacity, and outcome measures. For accountability to work, standards should guide instruction, and information about performance shoul...

Employment or Leadership: None declared. Consultant or Advisory Role: None declared. Stock Ownership: In accordance with the Bayh–Dole Act of 1980 and Mayo Foundation policy, the authors disclose that V.A. Lennon, as inventor, stands to receive royalties for commercial assays to detect aquaporin-4– specific autoantibodies. The intellectual property is licensed to a commercial entity for the dev...

analyzing the process of land use and cover changes during long periods of time and predicting the future changes is highly important and useful for the land use managers. in this study, the land use maps in the ardabil plain in north-west part of iran for four periods (1989, 1998, 2009 and 2013) are extracted and analyzed through remote sensing technique, using the land-sat satellite images. t...

the application of equiframe in the analysis of sexual and reproductive health policies by ivanova et al to a new thematic area, their selection of only some of the core concepts of human rights in health service provision and the addition of new vulnerable groups relevant to the purpose of their analysis, are all very welcome developments. we also applaud their application of equiframe to poli...