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THEORETICAL-LEGAL FOUNDATIONS OF FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATEHOOD OF THE PEOPLES OF RUSSIA IN V-XVII CENTURIES

open access: yesНаучный вестник МГТУ ГА, 2016
This paper reviews the history and evolution of the legal framework, as well as describes the legal steps and legal facts, which are directly related to and served as the basis for the formation of structure and development of statehood of the peoples of
V. N. Shelomentsev
doaj  

Naming and Shaming to Protect Civilians During Peacekeeping: Lessons from South Sudan

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract What can the United Nations do to strengthen the protection of civilians when it fails? When missions struggle to protect civilians, high‐level naming and shaming of non‐responsive units within the operation can occur to reorient the operation. Shaming helps rehabilitate the operation and achieve the protection of civilians.
Gary Uzonyi
wiley   +1 more source

The Political U: New Evidence on the Economic Costs of Hybrid Regimes

open access: yesEconomics &Politics, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 747-769, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Recent research establishes a positive causal effect from democracy to income, although this evidence relies mostly on binary regime classifications. We extend the identification framework of Acemoglu et al. (2019) to a classification that distinguishes democracies, autocracies, and hybrid regimes for about 170 countries over 1960–2024.
Nauro F. Campos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnic Groups' Access to State Power and Group Size

open access: yesEconomics &Politics, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 790-803, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Ethnic‐based political inequality is widespread, yet its underlying drivers remain poorly understood. This paper shows that an ethnic group's relative size is a key correlate of its access to central executive power. Using data on 575 groups across 181 countries from 1946 to 2021, and restricting attention to non‐dominant groups, I document a ...
Hector Galindo‐Silva
wiley   +1 more source

Antitrust and corporate taxation

open access: yesBusiness and Politics
Although citizens value competitive markets and support small businesses, we observe substantial variation in market concentration. Why do politicians abstain from taking action to reduce concentration? We propose an often overlooked political benefit to
Jonghoon Lee, Amy Pond
doaj   +1 more source

Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 7, Page 4425-4453, November 2026.
Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
wiley   +1 more source

Writing in the time of autocracy

open access: yes
The government subjected the writer and artist Mushtaq Ahmed (1967–2021) to nine-month-long slow death in police custody. By this, the regime wanted to send a forewarning message to all other writers who might have contemplated exposing its human rights ...
Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
core  

Polity II, political structures and regime change, 1800-1986 ICPSR 9263

open access: yes, 1989
Analysis of regimes' structural characteristics, institutional changes, and the directionality of changes on underlying dimensions of democracy, autocracy, and power concentrations Nine groups of variables are included in the Polity II data set: spatial ...
Gurr, T.R., University of Colorado * Boulder, USA (primary investigator)
core   +1 more source

‘Radical discipleship’: The public theology of archbishop David Mukuva Gitari towards democratisation of Kenya

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
This article examines the remarkable prophetic witness of Archbishop David Mukuva Gitari, who played a pivotal role in Kenya’s struggle for democratic governance during the 1980s and 1990s.
Stephen A. Kapinde
doaj   +1 more source

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