[PDF] Top 20 Is the Good Polity Attainable? Measuring the Quality of Democracy

... There is a rather difficult balance to strike here in this respect. On the one hand, this raises a problem for QoD measurements that do not take public opinion indicators on ...It is not surprising ... See full document

... connection is even more vital in democratizing settings and new democracies, like the Southern European countries of Portugal, Spain, and ...experience of authoritarianism there will be a ... See full document

... The Polity index remains quite insensitive to finer variations as ...Like the previous indexes, it captures the major regime transitions of the ...At the same time it ... See full document

... as the biggest money maker, small-scale farmers and rural populations are still the poorest people in the ...agriculture is potentially as damaging to ecosystems and human health, as it ... See full document

... A good example of an improvement that is not possible to understand through the questionnaire is as ...who is on a wheelchair at the moment of the first ... See full document

... and Quality of Life (QoL) have been receiving attention since many of the social ills have been reduced in the Western ...Happiness is considered one of the ... See full document

... Results. Quality of life is "the most widely recognised and the most frequently used framework for analysing the welfare development of a society" [2, ..."It ... See full document

... archipelago of the Azores is formed by nine small and disperse islands of volcanic origin, located off the coast of the Iberian Peninsula, in the North Atlantic ... See full document

... Value is co-created by multiple actors, always including the beneficiary - Originally formulated as ‘The customer is always the co-producer”(Vargo and Lusch, 2004), the idea ... See full document

... forms of organisation, but upon more voluntary affiliations built upon the idea of mutual ...respect of his critique of the instutionalised nature of ...(1973/2002), ... See full document

... Maslyuchenko. The attainable spaces and its analogues, ...type of the attainable spaces. We introduce the class of discreetly saturated spaces which contains all ... See full document

... Identity is a prime condition for a particular discipline to be recognized as ...presupposes the possession of a common language which, duly translated, makes possible the interlocution with ... See full document

... to the listed fungal species, since not all fungal/species with toxigenic potential, and common in indoor environments from Portugal, are listed (Aspergillus sections Nigri, Aspergilli and Nidulantes were also ... See full document

... Portuguese political institutions. the main political institutions of Portuguese democracy are presented, both in terms of how they were devised in the 1976 Constitution and ho[r] ... See full document

... and the EU has triggered the main democratic changes in the country, allowing it to consolidate its democracy and get closer to ...in the country and they have achieved very positive ... See full document

... recapitulate the reasons given in opposition to ...that the size of the losses that CoCos can absorb will be too small or will expose investors in CoCos, who are assumed primarily to be fixed ... See full document

... to the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, people understand abstract concepts depend- ing on the activation of more concrete concepts, but not vice ...versa. The present research aims to investigate ... See full document

... Lyttelton, the English jazz musician, was once asked where he thought jazz was ...feel the same about being asked about the questions of tomorrow in the moral and political ...Perhaps ... See full document

... Although the title of this book is What is Architectural History? , the responses found within the text suggest that several differently formulated questions had been posed in ... See full document

... - Measuring the respiration rate of fresh products is essential to design correct of packaging ...rates of consumption of O 2 and production of CO 2 , usually are ... See full document