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Crowding Out the Market: State Religious Policy and Social Capital Among Religious Adherents

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do governments’ policies toward religion impact the relationship between citizens and civil society? A large body of literature examines the effect of social capital on democratic governance. Studies of State Religious Policy, or SRP, however, have shown complex and potentially contradictory effects on different types of social capital ...
Brendan Szendrő
wiley   +1 more source

Sociological study of religiosity in post-atheist Kazakhstan. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Sociol
Zabirova A   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Framing Irredentism: Ancient Statehood, Sacred Lands and Causes and the National Family

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although irredentism—the attempt by states to retrieve ‘lost’ lands and peoples—rarely occurs, it has highly destabilizing effects on international security and is difficult to resolve given the number of actors drawn into these conflicts.
John Nagle
wiley   +1 more source

Do National Histories Affect National Identities? Ancient Athens, Byzantium and Greece Today, a Survey Experiment

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do national histories affect national identities? Most nations have complex and multiple pasts. Nationalist historians can smooth over discontinuities by either merging them into an unbroken national narrative or by skipping over pasts that do not fit the story.
Peter Gries   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Social Origins and Education of the British Civil Service Elite, 1945–2022

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We provide a fuller account than previously available of the extent of change in the social backgrounds of the British civil service elite from 1945 onwards. We consider our findings in relation to questions of meritocracy in recruitment to the elite and of the representativeness of the elite of the population at large.
Erzsébet Bukodi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Local Government Decision‐Making: The Influence of Institutional Pressures and Managerial Perceptions

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly being integrated into public sector decision‐making processes, with public managers relying on them to enhance their capabilities. As AI adoption becomes more widespread, discussions about its advantages and drawbacks intensify, alongside growing external expectations and pressures. However,
A. Paula Rodriguez Müller   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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