2021 regional elections in Catalonia: new trends in political participation by A. V. Baranov

“…Political participation in Catalonia is of interest from the perspective of changes in the identity and party orientations of voters, transformations of the Spanish and Catalan party systems. …”
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Constructing alternative futures of Poland: (de)legitimizing conflict, populist stance and liberal politics in leadership and campaign discourse by Piotr Cap

“…The second part analyzes the more moderate and cooperation oriented discourse strategies implemented by three opposition parties in the lead-up to the October 2023 elections, in which the party lost power. …”
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Signaling sustainability in online fashion consumption: The role of credibility induced by certification labels by Barbara Behre, Verolien Cauberghe

“…Moreover, product price did not moderate credibility perceptions of third-party certified fashion, regardless of the provided sustainability information. …”
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A secure routing scheme for underwater acoustic networks by Xiujuan Du, Chunyan Peng, Keqin Li

“…First, considering the difficulty of setting a trusted third party in underwater acoustic networks, a short signature algorithm without any online trusted third party is proposed and is used in the procedure of route setup for authentication between source and destination node pair. …”
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The Biopolitics of Ethnonationalism: Fertility in Defense of the Welfare State by Victor Lund Shammas, Tony Sandset

“…The Progress Party emphasised ethnonational exclusion, engaging in racial denigration with the aim to ensure the reproduction of ‘ethnic Norwegians’. …”
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The political economy of reshoring: Evidence from the semiconductor industry. by Richard Clark, Sarah Kreps, Adi Rao

“…We field two pre-registered survey experiments to representative samples of the American public, finding that US citizens support reshoring in most cases, irrespective of political party. Only the prospect of severe price increases and reshoring from geographically proximate allies moderate these responses. …”
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Punishment or mercy? Tripartite game between the State, offenders, and victims in China’s environmental crime governance by Xinrui Zhang, Jiashu Zhang

“…This study explores the strategies of the State, offenders, and victims in China’s environmental crime governance and develops a three-party evolutionary game model to analyze these interactions. …”
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Attribution of Responsibility, Risk Perception, and Perceived Corporate Social Responsibility in Predicting Policy Support for Climate Change Mitigation: Evidence From South Korea by Bumsub Jin

“…A recent nationwide survey reported that South Koreans perceive large corporations as the party that should be the most responsible for tackling climate change. …”
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Great Powers and Gatekeepers in the Western Balkans: Serbia’s Strategic Hedging by Nikolaos Tzifakis, Eleni Vasdoka

“…The article assesses that Serbia’s strategy has been successful, as it has been perceived as credible and has involved only relatively moderate costs for the great powers. Still, the tenability of Serbia’s hedging in the long term is doubtful in a structural setting marked by the increased fierceness of the competition between the great powers. …”
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External Factors’ Influence on Course of the April 25, 1974 Revolution in Portugal by D. N. Ermolovich

“…Initially, the U.S. response was restrained, but their attitude changed after members of the Communist Party joined the government. The U.S. adopted a policy of exerting political and economic pressure on the Portuguese leadership to exclude communists from the government, supporting all opposition left-wing parties, and exploiting divisions within left-wing forces. …”
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A systems thinking approach for examining the turning points in the Finnish public sport policy by Kati Lehtonen, Petri Uusikylä, Harri Jalonen, Sari Lappalainen

“…The other three are moderate in their nature, smoothly affecting the direction of the policy process. …”
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A evolução do petismo (2002-2008) by David Samuels

“…But, since 2002, the PT became more moderate and far less concerned with ideology and with the principles the party laid out in its early years and the article investigates the impact of the moderation of the PT's leadership on the "petistas". …”
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A Study on the Evolution Game of Multi-Subject Knowledge Sharing Behavior in Open Innovation Ecosystems by Gupeng Zhang, Hua Zou, Shuo Yang, Qiang Hou

“…It is found that a moderately balanced benefit allocation can stimulate two-way knowledge sharing, while an over- or under-allocation ratio will inhibit the synergy efficiency of the system; a moderate difference in the knowledge stock can promote knowledge complementarity, but an over-concentration will lead to the monopoly and closure of the system; and the government subsidy needs to accurately match the cost of the openness of the enterprises with the potential benefits to the society, so as to avoid the incentive from being unused. …”
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LOS PELIGROS DE LA GAUCHESCA: EL GAUCHO RESTAURADOR, OPINIÓN PÚBLICA Y ROSISMO by Lucía

“…This paper inquires into the ways in which a gauchesco journalist/poet took part in the public sphere: Luis Pérez got censored in 1834 as a result of inner conflicts in the same political party he had endorsed, the federalismo. The popular nature of his audience and his own popular ways had become an obstacle when the federalismo, after the Revolución de los Restauradores, took a more moderate and conciliatory stance. …”
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Measuring coordination between land ecological security and high-quality economic development: a case of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region by Xiaoyong Zhong, Xiaoyong Zhong, Dongyan Guo, Yandong Tang, Yafei Chuai

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Synergistic Evolution in the Digital Transformation of the Whole Rural E-Commerce Industry Chain: A Game Analysis Using Prospect Theory by Yanling Wang, Junqian Xu

“…To achieve this, this paper combines prospect theory and evolutionary game theory, introduces the value function and decision weight of prospect theory, and constructs a two-party game model between platform enterprises and participating enterprises. …”
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From Online Markets to Green Fields: Unpacking the Impact of Farmers’ E-Commerce Participation on Green Production Technology Adoption by Zhaoyu Li, Kewei Gao, Guanghua Qiao

“…The empirical results yield four main findings: (1) E-commerce participation significantly promotes the adoption of green production technologies, with an estimated 29.52% increase in adoption. (2) Participation has a strong positive effect on water-saving irrigation and pest control technologies at the 5% significance level, a moderate effect on straw incorporation at the 10% level, and no statistically significant impact on plastic film recycling or organic fertilizer use. (3) Compared to third-party sales, the direct e-commerce model more effectively promotes green technology adoption, with an increase of 21.64% at the 5% significance level. (4) Green cognition serves as a mediator in the relationship between e-commerce and green adoption behavior. …”
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A Hybrid Approach to Cloud Data Security Using ChaCha20 and ECDH for Secure Encryption and Key Exchange by Rebwar Khalid Muhammed, Zryan Najat Rashid, Shaida Jumaah Saydah

“…However, this convenience introduces significant security risks due to the reliance on third-party services, raising concerns about data confidentiality and integrity. …”
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Can government R&D expenditure promote innovation? New evidence from 37 OECD countries by Yemin Ding, Fengchun Yin, Lee Chin, Kun Zhou, Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Yaning Li

“…Lastly, heterogeneity analysis affirms that government efficiency, democracy, ruling party ideology, political stability, and economic freedom moderate the link between government R&D expenditure and national innovation capacity. …”
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Matching expectations: how issue congruence drives satisfaction with democracy by Aurelia Zucaro

“…The study also introduces an original salience index which combines party-level issue emphasis with citizens’ media exposure to examine whether issue salience moderates this relationship. …”
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