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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
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

The El Salvador Exception in a Pacific Rim Context: Outsourced Security Governance Across the Americas and the Asia‐Pacific

Pacific Focus, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the 2025 US decision to deport members of the Venezuelan‐origin gang Tren de Aragua to El Salvador under a $6 million incarceration agreement, arguing that the episode represents a critical evolution in outsourced security governance. By comparing this case with the 1980s deportation of Salvadoran gang affiliates, the paper
Taeheok Lee
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Interpersonal Connections and Career Mobility in Bureaucratic Labor Markets: Evidence From Brazil

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Interpersonal networks are pervasive in state bureaucracies around the world. To what extent do they explain bureaucratic career trajectories? And are they driven more by political patronage and connections to influential bosses, or by information‐sharing and trust‐building among peers?
Danilo Cardoso, Flavio Cireno, Julien Labonne, Pedro Masson, Pedro Palotti, Flavio de Vitoria, Martin Williams   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A theory on political violence in hybrid regimes: insights from Colombia

Frontiers in Political Science
IntroductionThis article presents a model of political competition in which political parties, through clientelism strategies, vie for control of legislative seats.
Andrés Cendales, Hugo Guerrero-Sierra, Laura Oñate   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Emergent critique of consociations has focused on how micro‐minority ‘others’ are frequently excluded from the opportunities presented by power‐sharing systems, with dominant elites shutting them out. Therefore, a key question is: how do the political elites of micro‐minorities gain more meaningful inclusion by adopting or navigating the ...
Aleksandra Zdeb, Drew Mikhael
wiley   +1 more source

Politics of Corruption in Albanian Higher Education

Studies of Transition States and Societies
This paper examines the persistent issue of corruption in Albania, which continues to plague crucial areas of higher education such as learning assessment.
Arjan Shahini, Edvin Zhllima, Drini Imami   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

International Legitimation of Authoritarianism: Venezuela's United Nations General Assembly Discourse and Domestic Power Consolidation (1999–2023)

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the Venezuelan government defended the gradual transformation of the country's political system from democracy to authoritarianism in an international forum. Building on the concept of international legitimation strategies, we qualitatively analyse Venezuelan government speeches at the United Nations General Assembly (
Felipe Jaramillo Ruiz, Osmel Osuna
wiley   +1 more source