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Votes, Clientelism, and Conditional Cash Transfer Programs

Politikon, 2014
Studies in the field of clientelism show that this specific social phenomenon can influence the voting patterns and local behavior in developing countries, maintaining in power a political elite that detains the vast majority of the local economic ...
Fábio Mariano Espíndola da Silva
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Practicing Power‐Sharing: How Political Adversaries (Fail to) Rule Jointly

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why does power‐sharing lead to peace and effective governance in some cases but not others? Whereas the current literature on this question predominantly focuses on institutional design, this article argues that more attention should be given to the everyday activities, routines and processes through which power‐sharing is operated.
Alexandre Wadih Raffoul
wiley   +1 more source

Perpetuating Social Movements amid Declining Opportunity: The Survival Strategies of Two Argentine Piquetero Groups

European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2009
This article examines the recent behaviour in Argentina of two national protest groups of socalled ‘piqueteros’ or picketers (impoverished unemployed individuals who used the blockage of strategic roads and bridges to force government concessions) that ...
Edward C. Epstein
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Economic Dependencies and Nationalist Divergences: Public Versus Private Sector Employment and Beyond in Corsican Separatist Nationalism

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Separatist nationalism often persists in divided minority regions where internal factions struggle to agree on governance models, perpetuating conflict and political tension. This article examines the key structural and situational factors driving these divisions in Corsica, focusing on economic dependencies that shape divergent approaches to ...
Durukan Imrie‐Kuzu, Saliha Metinsoy
wiley   +1 more source

Why Is Participation Low in Referendums? Lessons from Latin America

Latin American Research Review
Whether referendums, initiatives, and other mechanisms of direct democracy enhance representative systems is a matter of debate. Skeptics note—among other criticisms—that turnout tends to be low in referendums, often lower than in candidate elections in ...
Eli Gavin Rau, Radha Sarkar, Susan C. Stokes   +2 more
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Why Do Voters Vote for ‘the Other Side’? Instrumental and Expressive Motives for Cross‐Ethnolinguistic Voting in Brussels

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While electoral support in deeply divided societies is expected to follow segmental lines, parties often attract substantial backing from outside their core constituencies. This article examines why voters in Belgium's Brussels‐Capital Region—a consociational system designed to enable the peaceful cohabitation of the French and Dutch language ...
Benjamin Blanckaert, Silvia Erzeel, Didier Caluwaerts   +2 more
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Leaving no one behind: Party clientelism in social welfare in Serbia [PDF]

Anali Pravnog Fakulteta u Beogradu
This article analyzes the functioning of party patronage and clientelism in the centers for social work. Building on previous research, based on qualitative research conducted in 2023 in Serbia, we examine parasitic relations of informal and formal ...
Vuković Danilo, Stefanović Marija
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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
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Patronage, Contextual Flexibility, and Organisational Innovation in Lebanese Protected Areas Management

Conservation & Society, 2014
The Lebanese Shouf Biosphere Reserve (SBR) counts among the most successful Middle Eastern conservation projects today. This article describes the evolution and contemporary management of conservation in Shouf.
Mads Solberg
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Rhetoric Versus Reality? A Comparative Study of Public and Non‐Public Sector Employees' Perceptions of Discrimination

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How people are treated in the workplace is of increasing concern, with many scholars arguing that the government, as an employer, should set the standard for equitable treatment. While attention to equity in public administration has grown in research and practice, minimal work has comparatively explored discrimination in the public and non ...
Lihi Lahat, Chen Sharony, Jessica E. Sowa   +2 more
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