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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract After the Second World War, family allowances became a cornerstone of social spending in western Europe. Whilst religion is often highlighted as a driver of this policy, the role of political Catholicism remains contested, particularly in southern Europe.
Guillem Verd‐Llabrés
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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
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Spanish stock returns, growth, and inflation, 1900–2020
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper studies equity returns in the Madrid Stock Exchange and their connections with the macroeconomy from the emergence of a stock market around 1900 to its ‘big bang’ at the turn of the twenty‐first century. Using high‐quality data from primary sources and the methodology of the modern IBEX35 (published since 1987), we constructed an ...
Stefano Battilossi +2 more
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Executive Power and Political Corruption in Central Asian Turkic States: A Comparative Analysis
Journal of Central Asian StudiesThis study examines the link between political corruption and unchecked executive power in the Turkic states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in Central Asia.
Batuhan Sarp Tumer +1 more
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Pravoslaví jako součást veřejné prezentace romanovské monarchie za Mikuláše II.
Studia Historica Brunensia, 2017 The article is focused on the role of the orthodoxy in the public presentation of the Russian monarchy under the Nicholas II (1894–1917). Author analyzes two public events connected closely with the orthodoxy, in which Nicholas II played a key role.
Zbyněk Vydra
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper offers a novel, productive approach to political ethics in the European Parliament (EP), assuming some of its members (MEPs) are elected undemocratically in member states severely affected by democratic backsliding. It explores the normative foundations of how other MEPs should deal with undemocratically elected MEPs here and now ...
Attila Mráz
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Corruption: Democracy, Autocracy, and Political Stability [PDF]
The recent empirical literature on corruption has identified a long list of variables that correlate significantly with corruption but only five were distinguished by Leamer’s Extreme Bounds Analysis as robust to various samples, measures of corruption ...
Hans J. Czap, Kanybek Nur-tegin
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We Don't Need No Noumena? Freedom Through Rational Self-Cultivation in Kant [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper I argue that we find in Kant a more plausible alternative to his transcendental conception of freedom. In the Metaphysics of Morals in particular, we find a naturalistic conception of freedom premised upon a ...
Chapman, Louise R.
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The EU as a Security Provider: Changing Foreign Policy Roles Amongst Nordic EU Member States
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article addresses the Nordic European Union (EU) member states' changing national role conceptions prompted by concerns about a weakening international rules‐based order, a flagging transatlantic commitment and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Anna Michalski +2 more
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A Review on the Texts of Historical Sociology of Iran [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2017 Many texts on the Iranian identities with an emphasis on the correlation between dictatorial structure and the mood characteristics of the Iranian society argue that despotisms through the history of this country have caused the governance of egocentric ...
Javad Nazari Moghaddam
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