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State Capacity and Path Dependence in Cape Verde's Supreme Audit Institution
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines state capacity and path dependence in the Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) of Cape Verde, focussing on the performance and governance of the Court of Auditors. Drawing on a mixed‐methods longitudinal design covering the period from 2010 to 2024, the analysis combines international governance indicators, documentary analysis,
Ana Lúcia Romão
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Digitalising biodiversity: Exploring perceptions on risks and opportunities
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Digitalisation is transforming biodiversity conservation, offering new opportunities for research, governance and public engagement. Herbarium digitisation, for example, enables large‐scale access to plant data, supporting conservation, restoration and sustainable use.
Björn‐Ola Linnér +9 more
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Listas y libros de caballerías: una nómina de cruzados de las "Sergas de Esplandián" en el "Lisuarte de Grecia" [PDF]
Tirant, 2009 The lists of soldiers and warriors, present in the classic and in the romance epic, represent a common motif in the chivalric romances. This article will analyze the reappearance of a list of knights from the Sergas de Esplandián, whose writer was Garci ...
María Coduras
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Don Quijote und Rosenkreuz. Die Chymische Hochzeit als alchemokritischer Ritterroman
Recherches Germaniques, 2018 From an early time scholars have almost exclusively regarded Johann Valentin Andreae as a theologian, a critic of his times or even a Hermetist. As such they hardly noticed what a marvellous German writer, master of parody and great connoisseur of ...
Carlos Gilly
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The Discourse of Fairyland in the Dream Vision of the Middle English Pearl [PDF]
, 2017 The Middle English poem Pearl is a mixture of a number of genres. Opening like an elegy, with its initial stanzas heavily indebted to courtly love poetry, it proceeds towards a dream vision that launches into a theological debate concluded by an ...
Spyra, Piotr
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The power of expressed humility: Early stage investors' reaction to humble entrepreneurs
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary We examine how entrepreneur‐expressed humility affects early stage investors' willingness to fund new ventures. In pitching contexts where investors rely on relational cues and implicit prototypes of entrepreneurs, we theorize three distinct pathways through which expressed humility shapes funding decisions. First, building on
Laurent Vilanova, Ivana Vitanova
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Cahiers d’Études Italiennes, 2018 In the 16th century, translations have played a fundamental role in the relationship between the French and Italian cultures. The last was a model of vernacular literature translators could imitate to celebrate their own language.
Alessandro Bertolino
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Helmbrecht’s Cap and its Meta-Literary Hints
Open Journal of Humanities, 2023 Meier Helmbrecht by the poet Wernher der Gartenære is considered an example of Middle High German poem whose characters are situated in the world of the peasants.
Donata Bulotta
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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
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Pas d’armes et vide iconographique : quand le texte doit remplacer l’image (xve siècle)
Perspectives Médiévales, 2017 Like their close cousin jousts and tournaments, the Pas d’armes remains noble entertainments with a strong visual impact. Eminently political, they play an important role in the staging of the princely power.
Guillaume Bureaux
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