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Abstract Metropolises are rapidly becoming spaces of stark inequalities. While much literature has emphasized the metropolitan scale as a driver of agglomeration economies, recent scholarship highlights either the ungovernable nature of large metropolises or the weak redistributive capacity of their governments as key causes of increasingly unequal ...
Lucía Cerrada Morato +2 more
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ABSTRACT A long‐standing topic of concern in the literature on governmental auditing is whether the aims of Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) or other central audit institutions should include detecting fraudulent use of public money. The balance of opinion has been against this proposition, largely for reasons of infeasibility.
Michael Barzelay, Sérgio N. Seabra
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Historical Perspectives on Deglobalization's Drivers, Outcomes, and Managerial Responses
Abstract The deglobalization process experienced in the early 2020s is not without precedent. This Special Issue leverages business history as a lens to generate new insights and to uncover previously hidden complexities and nuances. Studying previous periods of deglobalization and their varying drivers, outcomes, and responses, the papers in this ...
Andrew Smith +3 more
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Possibilities for Social Equity Budgeting: Critical Insights From Bentham?
ABSTRACT Considering prior ways of seeing and practical mobilisations of Social Equity Budgeting (SEB), we suggest that prior conceptualisation, research and practice can be advanced by reflecting on insights from the philosophical and political literature on equity and justice.
Laurence Ferry +2 more
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Abstract The war in Ukraine and Israel's successful operations have demonstrated the apparent shift in military operations, strategic defence spending, and innovations. Drawing parallels to the industrial revolution and how it slowly transferred military procurement, training, and deployment, the current study also highlights the AI revolution and the ...
Ehsan Jozaghi
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Canned Foods: Evolution, Benefits, and Health Implications of Modern Packaging
This graphical abstract presents a concise visual overview of canned food technology, highlighting its historical evolution, key benefits, and associated health risks. It integrates timelines, icons, and summary points to clearly communicate advancements in preservation, consumer advantages, and potential safety concerns in a single schematic ...
Shaswati Rout +3 more
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Transatlantic Austen: Slavery and the British Navy in Persuasion
ABSTRACT This essay argues that Jane Austen's Persuasion critiques the British Navy's problematic history of involvement in Atlantic slavery following the passage of the 1807 Slave Trade Act. Drawing on new historical evidence, the essay suggests that Captain Frederick Wentworth, Persuasion's male hero, can be understood as implicated in the Atlantic ...
Donghee Om
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Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal
Abstract This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.
Richard Vinen
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Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
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Brazil's Public Administration and the Challenge of New Democracies: Promoting Social Inclusion
ABSTRACT Brazil's public administration (PA) has sought to strengthen democratic governance through an emphasis on social inclusion. Since democratization in 1988, reforms have aimed to address entrenched inequalities along with decentralization and professionalism spurring innovations in social inclusion.
Evan M. Berman +7 more
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