L'influence des partis politiques sur le fonctionnement des systèmes politiques a été largement soulignée. Mais on a moins insisté sur l'influence inverse : celle des systèmes politiques sur les partis. C'est ainsi que dans les systèmes présidentiels ou semi-présidentiels, les partis politiques sont profondément influencés par le rôle central de l'élection du président au suffrage universel direct ou indirect et par un processus de personnalisation du pouvoir. Il est donc important de mettre l'accent plus précisément sur les relations entre le président et son parti avant et après les élections. Pour mesurer l'autonomie laissée au parti présidentiel à partir d'une approche comparative, 42 partis dans 25 pays dotés d'un système présidentiel ou semi-présidentiel ont été choisis, ce qui permet de souligner les différences des caractéristiques de partis entre les systèmes démocratiques et les systèmes autoritaires.

She felt her own mate throw her away in front of the whole pack. What she never knew: the moon can't be rejected without her permission. Eight years ago, Wren Vale stood in the rain and heard the words that severed her bond and silenced her wolf forever. Since then the rot has been eating her alive, one silver thread at a time. She has fourteen months left, a shop full of medicine that can't save her, and exactly zero illusions about love. Then a moon-blind alpha carries a dying girl through her door — and tells her the thing that unravels everything. Her broken bond never actually broke. And the sickness killing her kind isn't a sickness at all. It's a harvest. Someone has been engineering rejections for sixty years, farming the grief they leave behind. The next blood moon rises in forty days. And Wren's severed thread doesn't lead where she was told it did — it leads straight to the one alpha the world swears was born without a mate of his own. To stop the thing devouring the packless, Wren and Bram will have to walk into the heart of the harvest together — and confront a truth more dangerous than any curse: a bond only breaks if you agree to let it go. And Wren never agreed to anything. If you crave the ache of a rejected mate, the pull of a fated bond, and a wounded heroine who stops waiting to be saved and starts burning it all down, step into the world of the Rejected Moon. Inside this steamy standalone paranormal werewolf romance: • A rejected-mate bond that refuses to die — and the fated pull neither can outrun A fierce, dry-witted healer heroine with real agency and a countdown on her life A protective, quietly devastating alpha who leads a pack of the ones nobody else wanted Found family, slow-burn tension, and a curse rooted in stolen grief A complete happily-ever-after — no cliffhanger, no cheating, one book, one full love story

Ha ancora senso, oggi, il dibattito classico sul libero arbitrio, frutto più di preoccupazioni teologiche che non di dilemmi morali? Perché i filosofi, e sovente persino gli scienziati, considerano il cervello un rozzo substrato materiale, che senza l'apporto dell'homunculus non sembra rivestire alcun ruolo ai fini della scelta e della libera decisione? È ancora possibile sostenere la tesi della consapevolezza dell'agire volontario, se esistono prove di processi determinanti inconsci in aree corticali? "Coscienza" e "volontà" sono stati tra di loro inscindibili? Sono alcuni dei quesiti al centro di questo studio, che si propone di offrire un contributo al dibattito attuale su intenzioni, decisioni e azioni, facendo emergere il ruolo dei meccanismi corticali coinvolti nell'atto volontario e consapevole, con particolare riferimento ai risultati delle recenti ricerche neuroscientifiche, che hanno rivitalizzato la discussione sul tema avviata negli anni Ottanta dagli esperimenti pionieristici di Benjamin Libet.