In practice, this system means that a political party could win a healthy share of votes on a national level but not win a proportional share of the seats. Smaller political parties in the U.K. have long argued that the first-past-the-post electoral system has thus helped to cement ...
even though there's a limit to how much influence the commander in chief has over such a complex system. Indeed, the economy's performance is often tied to boom-and-bust cycles that don't have much to do with who's occupying the White House. ...
Ampeater Music is a website devoted to bridging the gap between unsigned (or just plain underexposed) artists and music lovers everywhere. Every day we feature a different artist on what we call The Ampeater Review. Each fea
Often there are words for the same thing, one is Anglo-Saxon and one from the French – like “buy” which is Anglo-Saxon and “purchase” which is from the French. The French word often has more prestige. I: Anglo-Saxon? P: That’s the word for Old English. The Norman Conquest i...
However, there is no literature analysing the determinants of electricity consumption in the residential sector in situations as exceptional as pandemic-induced lockdowns. Thus, the contribution of this work is threefold. First, it contributes to filling the gap in the literature by analysing the ...
However, it is important to acknowledge that a good deal of work applying OR to community development had already been done prior to that. In the United States (US), OR practitioners had been working with community groups since the late 1960s (e.g., Ackoff, 1970) and in the UK since ...
To be clear, I believe that a country’s government and its people are two separate things. Traveling to a country doesn’t mean I’m supporting their government oragree with the politics of the country. If that is the case, I probably shouldn’t ever travel to the US, UK and many ...
This paper cannot detail why the research target bank provided us with data because this information is related to the bank’s trade secrets. However, in principle, environmental change needs to occur; along these lines, the development of the FinTech industry is significantly changing financial cu...
land grabbing narratives, most often interrelated and overlapping, that pose ethical considerations. The second objective is to reveal how well a set of variables can predict the “Resistance to sell” the land to foreigners even when an attractive price is offered. As ethics is a social ...
The paper is structured as follows: First, we briefly introduce the institutional context in pasture management in Kyrgyzstan and provide an illustrative bargaining situation (Section 2). In the following we present Knight's and Oliver Williamson's positions on the role of power and efficiency in ...