Abstract: The authors have found a gap in studies regarding the relation between cohabitation and mixed electoral system in Lithuania and Palestine. Elgie & McMenamin (2011) has argued that cohabitation is less likely to occur when there are few or many parties in electoral system; against this statement, we argue that cohabitation is more likely to occur when electoral fractionalization is high. In the present study, by comparative method among three samples of mixed legislative elections, Lithuanian 1992, Lithuanian 1996 and Palestinian 2006, we find evidence about relation between electoral fractionalization and polarization toward big parties. That relation may explain the likelihood of cohabitations’ electoral conditions.

• Publication Date: 12-Apr-2015
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-058-3-92
• Views: 0
• Downloads: 0

Abstract: This paper examines the connection between structural equation modeling and Balanced Scorecard in a Swiss non-profit organization. Using financial and nonfinancial data taken directly from the establishment, the paper puts forward a rational construction and analysis of Balanced Scorecard by choosing the right indicators for the right strategic perspectives. This choice is made by implementing a series of Partial Least Squares in the proposed model. In addition, the method determines the cause-and-effect chain defined by Kaplan and Norton as: the measures of organizational learning and growth will impact the measures of internal business processes which in turn will affect the measures of the customer perspective which, finally, will shape the financial measures. It will be observed that the Kaplan and Norton model of Balanced Scorecard is different from the findings in this paper, a case somehow too general to cope with today’s complex market environment. Subsequent to this, the study

• Publication Date: 12-Apr-2015
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-058-3-93
• Views: 0
• Downloads: 0