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Centre-periphery Relationships
1981In all public services in which administrative responsibility is shared between a central authority and locally based authorities there is a need to strike a balance between the powers and functions of the centre and those of the periphery. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the nature of the balance that was struck between the Ministry of ...
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1984
While Marxists focused on the modes of production resulting in class formation and revolutionary class struggles, a new group of scholars taking their inspiration from Marxist theory propounded their theories of dependency. They did not believe that the ‘value system of the people’1 or the masses and culture of a country were ‘so prone to excesses of ...
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While Marxists focused on the modes of production resulting in class formation and revolutionary class struggles, a new group of scholars taking their inspiration from Marxist theory propounded their theories of dependency. They did not believe that the ‘value system of the people’1 or the masses and culture of a country were ‘so prone to excesses of ...
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Centre-Periphery Relations in the Balkans
2015Young democracies and transition societies face many challenges that typically emerge in the early stages of state-building processes. Among them, one central concern for national governments stands out: the core objective to consolidate the newly acquired national statehood and unity. In this endeavour, elites in the central government (centre) are in
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Centre Periphery Relations in Czechoslovakia
Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 1992Industrialisation in Czechoslovakia led to only a weak concentration of economic activity. This trend continued in the post-war years when no coherent regional policy was formulated. The form of development, and the central position of the engineering industry, led to concentration into a number of centres alongside dispersion often into very small ...
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A Centre–Periphery Framework on Kaldorian Lines
Review of Political Economy, 2009This paper develops the seminal ideas of Nicholas Kaldor into a Centre–Periphery framework of the world economy, where the Centre faces the problem of surplus capacity and effective demand and the Periphery faces a capacity constraint. In such a framework, a Harrod-type ‘foreign trade multiplier’ works in a short-run partial equilibrium analysis: a ...
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CHAD: THE ROOTS OF CENTRE-PERIPHERY STRIFE
African Affairs, 1980THE total collapse of central authority in Chad in February 1979, the victory of the periphery in its decade-long struggle against Ndjamena, the partition of the capital by opposing factions of the 'liberation' forces, and the de facto disengagement---social, economic and political--of the south from the state they had just lost control over, were all ...
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The Centre-Periphery Model and Industrial Development in Portugal
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 1984A critique of the use of the centre-periphery model in explanation of intranational regional development based upon Marxist and neo-Marxist economic theory is presented. Seemingly different approaches use the same basic explanatory structure. The history and structure of the model arc discussed, followed by a theoretical and epistemological critique of
J Ferrão, C Jensen-Butler
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Centre, Periphery and Institutional Path Dependence
The Journal of Transport History, 2006This article shows how transport subsidies emerged in Norway and Sweden in the 1890s with the purpose of compensating peripheral regions for high transport costs.
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The centre–periphery dimension and trust in politicians: the case of Norway
Territory, Politics, Governance, 2021Hilde Bjørnå +2 more
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