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La Parapolítica: la infiltración paramilitar en la clase política colombiana
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2007 This article analyses the informal practices that derive from the implication of actors armed in the development and organization of the political parties in Colombia.
Miriam Álvaro
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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
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Clientelism in Decentralized States
, 2019 León acknowledges the financial support of Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (through the Severo Ochoa Program for Centers of Excellence in R&D (SEV-2011-0075) and grant ECO2014-55555-P).
León-Ciliotta, Gianmarco +1 more
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines peasant and Indigenous movements in Mexico since Morena's rise to power in 2018 through the lens of collective empowerment theory, a theory of political‐cultural formation. Beyond offering an empirical assessment, the theory is refined and formalized through an analysis of these movements and their relationship to ...
Gerardo Otero
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Politik Indonesia: Indonesian Political Science Review, 2016 This research is motivated by the election of Neneng Hasanah Yasin-Rohim Mintareja who defeated incumbent regional head and deputy head of the Bekasi area in the elections of 2012.
Ainur Rofieq, Rahmat Nuryono
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The Journal of Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Republicans start more firms than Democrats. In a sample of 40 million party‐identified Americans between 2005 and 2017, we find that 5.5% of Republicans and 3.7% of Democrats become entrepreneurs. This partisan entrepreneurship gap is time‐varying—Republicans increase their relative entrepreneurship during Republican administrations and ...
JOSEPH ENGELBERG +3 more
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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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Why Is Participation Low in Referendums? Lessons from Latin America
Latin American Research ReviewWhether 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 +2 more
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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
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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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