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Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Central states have often relied on local elites to implement policies in peripheral areas. These strategies may allow otherwise weak states to impose their directives, but they can also be inefficient, particularly when a single elite commands total control over local politics (monopolist capture).
Anna F. Callis, Christopher L. Carter
wiley   +1 more source

Integrational Justice: South America’s Experience

Евразийская интеграция: экономика, право, политика, 2019
Integration justice is the result of supranational courts work in the framework of states’ regional economic unions. The resolution of disputes between states, supranational institutions and economic entities in the framework of the common market of ...
Georgy V. Alekseev, Artur A. Gapeev
doaj  

The institutional paradox of a substantivist conception of the economy in public policy: Insights from public procurement for solidarity economy in Ecuador

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecuador's 2008 Constitution advanced an ambitious substantive economic vision through Buen Vivir (Good Living), recognizing a plural economy which encompasses private, public and solidarity economy (SE) sectors. This paper aims to analyze public procurement programs in Ecuador, one of the flagship Buen Vivir policies for SE promotion.
Maria‐José Ruiz‐Rivera, Andreia Lemaître   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microbial Activity Response to Solar Radiation across Contrasting Environmental Conditions in Salar de Huasco, Northern Chilean Altiplano [PDF]

, 2016
Indexación: Web of Science; Scopus.In high altitude environments, extreme levels of solar radiation and important differences of ionic concentrations over narrow spatial scales may modulate microbial activity.
Dorador, C, Hengst, MB, Hernandez, KL, Jeffrey, WH, Menschel, EJ, Molina, V, Olsen, LM, Remonsellez, F, Yannicelli, B   +8 more
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The First Archaeomagnetic Age at Tiwanaku and Implications for Dating Andean Metallurgical Furnaces

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents the first archaeomagnetic dating at Tiwanaku (Andean Altiplano). We compared the geomagnetic field values recorded by a metallurgical furnace against an updated SHAWQ2k‐SH global model and a regional intensity curve, both of which include, for the first time, high‐quality intensity data from the Southern Hemisphere. Results
Judit del Río, Pablo Cruz, Miriam Gómez‐Paccard, Alicia Palencia‐Ortas, Marina Puente‐Borque, F. Javier Pavón‐Carrasco, Erik Marsh   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wari Lithic Technology on the Northern Coast of the Andes: Geochemical, 2D Geometric Morphometric, and Technological Analyses of Obsidian Bifaces From San José de Moro

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines Wari obsidian production in a cache of 39 bifaces found at the Late Moche site of San José de Moro (Jequetepeque Valley, North Coast of Peru, 700–850 ad). Portable X‐ray fluorescence, geometric morphometric, and technological analyses were used to investigate raw material provenance and bifacial production.
Antonio Pérez‐Balarezo, Luis Jaime Castillo, Jalh Dulanto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trade Blocks and the Gravity Model: Evidence from Latin American Countries [PDF]

We apply the gravity model to examine the effects of the Andean Community and Mercosur on both intra-regional and intra-industrial trade in the period 1980-1997.
Carlos Carrillo, Carmen A. Li
core  

The soil fungal community of native woodland in Andean Patagonian forest: A case study considering experimental forest management and seasonal effects

, 2020
Forest management can alter soil fungal communities which are important in the regulation of biogeochemical cycles and other ecosystem services. The current challenge of sustainable management is that management be carried out while preserving the ...
A. Carron, L. Garibaldi, Sebastián Márquez, S. Fontenla   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Environmental justice in education for climate action: Case studies from Perú and Uganda

Children &Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper draws on participatory research with secondary school learners in Perú and Uganda that shows how environmental and social (in) justices are interwoven and embedded in young people's experiences of the natural world. These experiences contrast with learners' accounts of environmental education in secondary schooling, in which the ...
Rachel Wilder, Expedito Nuwategeka, Carlos Monge, Alithu Bazan Talavera   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Territorios hidrosociales en las geografías altoandinas del Norte de Chile: modernización y conflictos en la región de Tarapacá.

IdeAs, 2020
Using the perspective of the Political Ecology this paper analyses, for different historical periods, the processes of discursive and material production of the hydrosocial territories in the High Andean zone of the Tarapacá region, located in the center
Manuel Méndez, Hugo Romero
doaj   +1 more source