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Empirical legitimacy as core of comparative democracy research 经验合法性是比较民主研究的核心

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2024-01-05 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1176508

Gert Pickel, Susanne Pickel

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Lobbying the executives: differences in lobbying patterns between elected politicians, partisan advisors and public servants 游说行政人员：民选政治家、党派顾问和公务员游说模式的差异

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2024-01-04 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1291890

Christopher A. Cooper, Maxime Boucher

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Editorial: Metropolitan governance: models, policies and political processes 社论：大都市治理：模式、政策和政治进程

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1322633

Mariona Tomàs, Robert Pyka

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The impact of the Health Silk Road on Global South countries: insights from Brazilian health agents 健康丝绸之路对全球南部国家的影响：巴西卫生机构的见解

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1250017

Anabela Rodrigues Santiago, Carlos Rodrigues

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“Now we start to make it like home”: reunited refugee families negotiating integration and belonging "现在我们开始让这里像家一样"：重新团聚的难民家庭就融入和归属问题进行谈判

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1287035

Leyla Kerlaff

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Advantages and pitfalls of machine translation for party research: the translation of party manifestos of European parties using DeepL 用于政党研究的机器翻译的优势和缺陷：使用 DeepL 翻译欧洲各政党的政党宣言

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2023-11-22 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1268320

Johanna Ida Plenter

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Editorial: The future of democracy 社论：民主的未来

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2023-11-17 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1331615

Lauri Rapeli, Maija Jäske, Annika Lindholm

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Management of crisis or crisis of management? The Thai government's “policy as discourse” handling of the COVID-19 pandemic 危机管理还是管理危机？泰国政府以 "政策即话语 "的方式处理 COVID-19 大流行病

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2023-11-16 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1251439

Rangsan Sukhampha, Alexandra Kaasch

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Editorial: Global perspectives on activism during COVID-19 社论：COVID-19 期间积极行动的全球视角

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2023-11-14 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1275662

Sharon Coen

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Editorial: Party leader selection in Europe: concepts, processes and outcomes 社论：欧洲的政党领袖遴选：概念、过程和结果

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1279488

N. Aylott, Niklas Bolin

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