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Youth policies and youth participation: from beneficiaries to actors [PDF]
, 2015 Recent research shows that young people tend to be scarcely involved in political matters, thus remaining invisible. There are indeed forms of youth activism, but they tend to involve different ways of participation.
Bertozzi, Rita
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Waiting for a Release: The Expectation in Virtual Gaming Communities
Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 534-560, March 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines how virtual gaming communities influence and maintain player expectations before, during, and after a game's release. A mixed‐methods study was conducted, comprising a netnography followed by an experiment. First, a netnographic study was conducted over 12 months, tracking communities to understand player behavior and ...
Lucas Lopes Ferreira de Souza +4 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 366-385, March 2026.Abstract Recent scholarship has examined the informal activities of elites. While existing theories suggest that informality is a realm where the state guarantees unhindered access to land and property rights and, subsequently, citizenship entitlements for elites, they have yet to explain how affluent residents of informal colonies obtain citizenship ...
Vivek Mishra
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Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime [PDF]
, 2014 We use experiments in high schools in two neighborhoods in the metropolitan area of Palermo, Italy to experimentally demonstrate that the historical informal institution of organized crime can undermine current institutions, even in religiously and ...
Meier, Stephan +2 more
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract Following the lead of labour movements, this article frames slums as labour geographies whose evictions constitute the devaluation of labour in spatial terms. This devaluation occurs in two modes: in the first, through the rendering of workers as “encroachers” or “the urban poor” in policy documents and public discourse, thereby unmooring ...
Priti Narayan
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Four Dimensions of Presidential Leadership: Rethinking Nelson Mandela's Presidency
Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article applies a four‐dimensional analytical framework to re‐evaluate Nelson Mandela's presidency (1994–1999). The framework distinguishes tensions and synergies across four key domains of leadership: executive and symbolic, party and state, international and domestic, and formal versus informal.
Anthony Butler
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La Guardia di Finanza e le attività di prevenzione e repressione delle organizzazioni criminali / La Guardia di Finanza et ses activités de prévention et de répression des organisations criminelles / The Guardia di Finanza and the prevention of and fight against organized crime [PDF]
Rivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza, 2010 The article describes the structure of Italian Guardia di Finanza and its tasks. In particular, this police force fights against economic and organized crime through specific investigation methods which are described in the text.Then, the author examines
Sirico Umberto
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«Voi siete la schifezza di Napoli». La nascita del movimento anticamorra in Campania
Laboratoire Italien, 2019 In Campania, unlike Sicily, there has never been a tradition of social opposition to the mafia phenomena. The anti-Camorra movement (1980-1983), in fact, emerged as an answer to the wave of violence of the first Camorra “war” (1978-1983) for the control ...
Marcello Ravveduto
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A faded passion? Estes Kefauver and the senate subcommittee on antitrust and monopoly [PDF]
, 2007 In this paper I examine the U.S. Senate subcommittee on antitrust and monopoly (1957-1963), chaired by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver. I assess the persistence into the postwar years of the antimonopoly critique of bigness that had animated the ...
Scroop, D.
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract Situated in the manufacturing and construction industries of Durban, South Africa, this paper presents an ethnographic investigation into non‐unionised labour activism emergent from so‐called “organised crime” linked to the patronage politics of the African National Congress. In doing so, this paper traces a twin process of post‐colonial class
Nicholas Abrams
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