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Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth

Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 535-560, March 2025.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study the relationship between organized crime, corruption, and economic growth on a data set from Italian regions for the period 1996–2013. Our working hypothesis is that organized crime can embezzle part of the public expenditure aimed at productive uses by threatening and bribing public officers. To assess the consequences
Tamara Fioroni, Andrea Mario Lavezzi, Giovanni Trovato   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Between Enlightenment and Obscurantism

Quaderni di Sociologia
The State of Israel could not have been founded without the legacy of the European Enlightenment. Its founding ideology, i.e., European-born Zionism, acquired its political and social savoir-faire through the pursuit of modernization.
Alon Helled
doaj   +1 more source

Od demokracji do autorytaryzmu populistycznego

Politeja
FROM DEMOCRACY TO POPULIST AUTHORITARIANISM: THE TUNISIAN CASE UNDER KAÏS SAÏED Tunisia is one of the few Arab countries that underwent a genuine democratic transition following the Arab Spring.
Ewa Szczepankiewicz-Rudzka
doaj   +1 more source

Five Epistemic Arguments for Workplace Democracy Over Workplace Republicanism

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in the debate between workplace democracy and workplace republicanism by examining their relative capacities to protect workers' epistemic agency and epistemic capacities, an angle that remains underexplored in the workplace justice literature.
Chi Kwok
wiley   +1 more source

Does Islamic Religiosity Constrain Liberal Democratic Attitudes?

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The relationship between Islam and democracy remains contested. Although some scholars argue that the two are inherently incompatible, others maintain that they can coexist harmoniously. Although the existing literature includes a growing number of empirical studies testing these competing claims, many are constrained by limitations in data ...
Zeki Sarigil
wiley   +1 more source

A Wounded Democracy: Analysis of the Determinant Factors of Democratic Backsliding in Brazil

Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Despite its prominence in the international political landscape and its widespread adoption throughout the world, democracy is seldom a stable regimen, and often repeatedly stressed and tested by attempts to wield autocratic power.
Davi Mendes Málaga, Suely de Fátima Ramos Silveira   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Development Costs of Revolution: Evidence From Violent and Nonviolent Transitions

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using data from the Varieties of Democracy (V‐Dem) project and the NAVCO catalog (1950–2019), we estimate the developmental effects of successful revolutions through difference‐in‐differences models and event studies. Our findings differ from common expectations: neither violent nor nonviolent revolutions consistently deliver expected ...
Shishir Shakya, Joshua D. Ammons, Towhid Iqram Mahmood   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pilot Study on Institutional Trust, Security, and Democratic Support in Ecuador During the 2024 Crisis

Social Sciences
This pilot study seeks to answer the following question: How does the ongoing security crisis in Ecuador shape public support for democracy and approval of the incumbent government?
Javier Chiliquinga-Amaya, Michela Andrade-Vásquez, Patricio Álvarez-Muñoz, Romina Sánchez, Efraín Vásquez, Marco Faytong-Haro   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Ethnic Groups Military Recruitment Data

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Military conscription affects how countries expand political rights and fight wars, as well as their citizens' view of the state and socioeconomic outcomes. Until recently, conscription was studied in a simplified fashion, missing cases where it only applies to specific societal groups. We introduce the Ethnic Military Recruitment (EGMR) data,
Markéta Odlová, Marius Mehrl
wiley   +1 more source

Between and Beyond: Negotiating Belonging Within Queer Borderlands

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Belonging is an affective, social and biopolitical phenomenon which is relationally negotiated and which produces material and symbolic ‘borders’. Subsequently, the politics of belonging refers to the construction, maintenance and policing of the borders of belonging.
Meg Poff
wiley   +1 more source