This article investigates the dynamics that gender quota reforms create within and between government and opposition parties in electoral authoritarian dominant-party states. A dominant-party state regularly holds relatively competitive elections, but the political playing field is skewed in favor of the government party. We investigate the circumstances under which gender quotas’ goal of furth...

This article investigates the effect of the intensity of political competition on the tax choices by local governments. More precisely, we study whether local governments determine their tax rates more in a Leviathan way, exploiting a low political competition to vote high tax rates, or in a partisan way, fiscal choices by leftwing governments being significantly in contrast with those by right...

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It may be that the landscape of stroke care is changing, as more attention being drawn to benefits intravenous (IV) tenecteplase for acute reperfusion therapy, particularly given ease administration and affordability highlighted by COVID-19 pandemic. The latest ANA Investigates podcast asks Professor Bruce Campbell important questions about body evidence surrounding tenecteplase, including whet...

this article is an attempt to study two historical junctures in the history of iran: from the qajar era to the mashrooteh movement; and from the pahlavi era to the islamic revolution. the two junctures have been studied from different perspectives; however, this article concentrates only on how political legitimacy emerged and diminished in the the above-mentioned revolutions. the basic questio...

Article history: Received 14 November 2014 Received in revised form 20 May 2015 Accepted 21 May 2015 Available online 29 May 2015 This paper investigates the relationship between political instability and labour market institutions. We develop a theoretical model in which political instability creates incentives for a government to introduce labour market regulation in the economy. The distorti...