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Autocratic Legalism through Anti-Corruption Strategies and Agencies: A Case Study of Nigeria [PDF]

open access: yes
One of the hallmarks of the transition to constitutional democracy in Nigeria is the consolidation of an overarching anti-corruption strategy. After several years of successive military rule, Nigeria transited to a democratic dispensation in 1999. On the
Adeyemo, Deborah D, Assim, Usang
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From Dictionaries to Deep Learning: A Systematic Mapping Review of the Natural Language Processing Tasks Used to Analyze Sustainability Reports

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims at shedding light on the vast landscape of natural language processing (NLP) tasks used when analyzing sustainability reports or sustainability within integrated annual reports. A systematic literature review is carried out, identifying 160 studies of relevance.
Hannes Cordes
wiley   +1 more source

Water Governance Under International Pressure: Policy Narratives, Food Security, Scarcity, and the Politics of Survival in Iran

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Water governance is increasingly influenced by a paradox at the nexus of environmental scarcity and food security. Escalating water scarcity crises coincide with geopolitical disruptions that have exposed the fragility of global food supply chains, prompting states to expand domestic food production at the expense of water conservation ...
Alireza Raisi
wiley   +1 more source

Autocratic Legalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Buried within the general phenomenon of democratic decline is a set of cases in which charismatic new leaders are elected by democratic publics and then use their electoral mandates to dismantle by law the constitutional systems they inherited.
Scheppele, Kim L.
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Environmental Statecraft, Fragmented Authoritarianism, and Technocratic Governance: The Structure and Agency of China's Local Environmental Politics

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Local environmental politics in China is often said to be dominated by state‐controlled modes of multi‐level governance. However, top‐down governance is embedded within and transformed by local politics, adding complexity to governance practices and environmental outcomes.
Minsi Liu, Kevin Lo
wiley   +1 more source

When Social Change Feels Threatening: Multiple Pathways to Reactionary Politicized Identification and Collective Action

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Efforts to recognize gender diversity have become sites of political conflict, mobilizing progressive support and reactionary resistance. Understanding this resistance requires identifying which grievances arise during social change and explaining how they correlate with reactionary politicized identities and collective action.
Julia C. Becker, Danny Osborne
wiley   +1 more source

The menu of autocratic innovation

open access: yes, 2020
This article develops the menu of autocratic innovation to account for a perceived transformation in the nature of autocratic rule. Drawing from an original list of 20 techniques intended to cultivate the pretence of accountability without permitting the
Morgenbesser, Lee
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Electroclinical phenotypes—genetic characterization of developmental and epileptic encephalopathies in a cohort study

open access: yesEpileptic Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are characterized by refractory seizures and frequently recurring epileptic activity with neurodevelopmental delay or regression that usually begin in early life. We aimed to define the relationship between electroclinical features and etiology, as well as the genotype–phenotype ...
Burcu Yaman   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
wiley   +1 more source

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