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The second theme identifies the various age-related constraints that prevent older adults from playing. The useful, pragmatic qualities, rather than the fun, hedonic aspects of games are emphasized. The first theme refers to digital games framed as a way for older adults to improve certain skills. However, the current discourse on games and ageing can largely be categorized into two themes.

Older adults are a large, currently still largely untapped market for innovative game research and development. Th.įull Text Available Digital games have become an important part of the technoscape, not only for youngsters, but for players of all ages. Even then, homeowners are found to vote more often than tenants. This question is tackled using coarsened exact matching (CEM) on data for 19 countries, allowing us to better control for endogeneity. The empirical question is whether this effect is causal or rather due to selection into different housing tenures. Integrating housing tenure in Instrumental Motivation Theory predicts a tenure gap in electoral participation, as homeowners would be more motivated to vote compared with tenants. The tenure gap in electoral participation: Instrumental motivation or selection bias? Comparing homeowners and tenants across four housing regimesĪndré, S.C.H. With the purpose of assessing this governance model in action, three important recent rulings by Brazil’s Electoral Justice System are analysed here: verticalization of the coalitions, reduction in the number of councillors, and party loyalty. It is argued herein that Brazil’s Electoral Justice System, motivated by the institutional design, has ended up becoming one of the main actors of the country’s recent democratic consolidation, being decisive not only with regard to rule adjudication and application, but also to rulemaking. This article examines the electoral governance institutional model adopted in Brazil and its consequences for political/ electoral competition. It compares party manifestors of 25 OECD countries from 1946 onward, analyzing how education developed in election campaigns over time…įull Text Available Electoral governance has increasingly more frequently been the object of study of the comparative politics literature. This article explains this observation by the idea of a world culture and the global institutionalization of education. Political Parties and the Institutionalization of Education: A Comparative Analysis of Party ManifestosĮducation has been featured prominently in recent election campaigns in different countries.

The dynamics of Ukraine regional homogeneity on the material of 1991­2015 electoral statistics is analyzed. Calculation of appropriate indexes for Ukrainian electoral space (return of 1991­2015 elections and 100 other national cases. Possible directions of study with the use of this index according to individual political subjects and the whole political space (state, region, electoral district are defined. It is proposed the formulae for evaluation of regional homogeneity quantitative method which has been based on statistics analysis instrument, especially, variation coefficient. Quantitative measurement of government regional homogeneity has direct connection with risk of separatism, civil conflicts, or legitimacy crisis on deviant territories. It is argued, that such regional homogeneity is a characteristic of electoral space and can be quantified. «Regional homogeneity» and « electoral space» categories are conceptualized. Regional homogeneity of electoral space: comparative analysis (on the material of 100 national casesįull Text Available In the article the author examines dependence on electoral behavior from territorial belonging. These words, cited from Claudio Guillén’s prologue to the first edition of his classic work, Introduction to comparative literature (in Entre lo uno y lo diverso, 1985-2005 aptly convey some of the tenets of the vision of Between, the newly-launched journal of the Italian Association for the Study of Theory and the Comparative History of Literature. Its dissemination throughout the world remains changeable and surprising. Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)įull Text Available Today, despite the storms and tides, comparative literature continues along its path.