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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

"It is the economy, companheiro!": an empirical analysis of Lula's re-election based on municipal data [PDF]

This paper discusses the reasons that led to the Lula's 2006 re-election. Spatial analysis methods revealed that, contrary to 2002, the President had more votes in less developed municipalities of Brazil.
Andre Carraro, Ari Francisco de Araujo Jr., Claudio Djissey Shikida, Leonardo Monteiro Monasterio, Otávio Menezes Damé   +4 more
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Electoral incentives and the management of budgetary results through unpaid commitment

Revista de Administración Pública
This research aims to analyze the effect of electoral political cycles on the management of budgetary results by observing the unpaid commitments of Brazilian local governments.
Ronaldo José Rêgo de Araújo, D. Queiroz, Edilson Paulo   +2 more
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EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter‐measures

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is ‘epistemic extractivism’, and how does it affect researchers who are engaged in urban and housing movements? This essay first explores the contexts of both engaged research and epistemic extractivism, clarifying their meanings and implications. It also disentangles the ethical and methodological risks posed by epistemic extractivism in
Miguel A. Martínez
wiley   +1 more source

Relevant factors for the voting decision in the 2002 presidential election: An analysis of the ESEB (Brazilian Electoral Study)

Brazilian Political Science Review, 2007
The article investigates some of the most relevant factors for the voting de- cision in the 2002 presidential election by testing some of the main hypotheses about electoral behaviour in the country by means of logistic regression analyses based on data ...
Yan Carreirão
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Identificação ideológica, partidos e voto na eleição presidencial de 2006

Opinião Pública, 2007
O artigo analisa as relações entre a identificação ideológica do eleitor brasileiro, seus "sentimentos" em relação aos partidos e o voto nas eleições presidenciais de 2002 e 2006. A principal hipótese testada, a partir da análise dos dados das duas ondas
Yan de Souza Carreirão
doaj   +1 more source

CENSUS UNDERCOUNTS, DIGITAL DISPLACEMENT, AND DATA JUSTICE: What Social Scientists and Data Users Need to Know About the 2020 US Census

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Census data are foundational to democracy, research and equitable urban policy. In addition to supporting political reapportionment and redistricting, census data serve as the backbone of the federal statistical data system and are often considered the highest quality data—the ‘gold standard'—for scholarly and policy research.
Jason R. Jurjevich
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping Ideological Preferences in Brazilian Elections, 1994-2018: A Municipal-Level Study

Brazilian Political Science Review, 2019
This article investigates the electorally expressed ideology of Brazilian voters via ecological analysis at the municipal level between 1994 and 2018. Our purpose is to analyze the main conditioners of aggregated patterns of ideology measured at a high ...
Timothy J. Power , Rodrigo Rodrigues-Silveira   +1 more
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Tying Your Enemy’s Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil [PDF]

This paper uses a quasi-experimental strategy to disclose utterly political reasons behind the allocation of intergovernmental transfers in a federal state. We apply a regression discontinuity design in close elections to identify the effect of political
Brollo, Fernanda, Nannicini, Tommaso
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Prophets With Enchantment: Framing Christian Climate Activism

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues for a re‐enchantment of studies of contemporary climate change activism. It focuses upon Christian climate activists in the UK and how they are reinterpreting their theological beliefs in ways that mobilise religious communities.
Gemma Edwards, Finlay Malcolm
wiley   +1 more source