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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
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Edelweiss Applied Science and TechnologyIn the community of Casaorcco, Ayacucho, customary law remains the primary mechanism for conflict resolution, coexisting with state law within a framework of legal pluralism. This study examines its role in the administration of justice, its theoretical foundations, and its impact on social cohesion and communal autonomy.
Juan Ramos López +2 more
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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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 +1 more
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HeritageIntegrating renewable energy into heritage buildings poses technical, aesthetic, and regulatory challenges, especially in Andean cities with a rich historical legacy, such as Cuenca, Ecuador.
Paul Yuquilima-Heras +1 more
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Conservation effectiveness of seven biosphere reserves in the Western Amazon
Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.As deforestation continues to threaten the Amazon, assessing the effectiveness of area‐based conservation strategies is critical for achieving global biodiversity targets. Using matching methods, we evaluated deforestation avoidance in seven biosphere reserves in the Western Amazon and found that most have reduced forest loss, particularly in buffer ...
Amaia Gonzaga Roa +6 more
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Competition law in the Andean Community of Nations - can. Analysis and proposals
, 2022 This paper briefly explains the Andean Community of Nations antitrust law, its development, background, exercise, procedure and relevance facing the current regulations.
Miranda Londoño, Alfonso
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Foro, Revista de Derecho, 2017 La importación paralela de medicinas dentro de una comunidad es una operación comercial que se desarrolla en el límite del Derecho a la competencia y el Derecho de propiedad intelectual.
RA Stefan Kirchner
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Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
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, 2012 10.25540/XMQF-72Z0American Society of International LawInternational Organisations Bulletin: UNAIDS6 ...
Diego Germán Mejía-Lemos
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