We examine turnout in 324 democratic national lower house elections held in 91 countries,
between 1972 and 1995. We rely on Freedom House ratings of political rights to determine …

This article ascertains the impact of local candidates on vote choice in the 2000 Canadian
election. The authors show that 44 per cent of Canadian voters formed a preference for a local …

The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of certain institutional variables on
electoral participation. The study covers a total of 151 elections held in 61 “democratic” …

The nuclear lamina (NL) is a structural component of the nuclear envelope and makes
extensive contacts with integral nuclear membrane proteins and chromatin. These interactions …

This paper first examines the frequency of direct presidential elections among the 170
countries of the world with a working, directly elected parliament. We find that there is a directly …

Site-specific recombinases are potent tools to regulate gene expression. In particular, the Cre
(cyclization recombination) and FLP (flipase) enzymes are widely used to either activate or …

This paper establishes the methodological foundations for a systematic analysis of the direct
impact of the media on the vote. We propose to combine two different approaches: the ‘…

The eukaryotic nucleus controls most cellular processes. It is isolated from the cytoplasm by
the nuclear envelope, which plays a prominent role in the structural organization of the cell, …

The inner nuclear membrane proteins emerin and LEMD2 have both overlapping and separate
functions in regulation of nuclear organization, gene expression and cell differentiation. …

… José-María Maesa and Agnieszka Dobrzynska extracted and analysed the data and wrote
the manuscript. Elena Baños-Álvarez and Juan-Antonio Blasco-Amaro prepared the protocol …