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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
wiley   +1 more source

Pengaruh Klientilisme terhadap Perilaku Pemilih Masyarakat Kecamatan Sukatani pada Pilkada Kabupaten Bekasi 2012

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
doaj   +1 more source

Bulgarian sport policy 1945-1989: A strategic relation perspective [PDF]

, 2009
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games have stimulated discussions about the success of different sport systems and the Chinese model in particular. Revisiting explanations of sport in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe during the Cold War seems ...
Bankov P., Bankov P., BCP (Bulgarian Communist Party), BCP (Bulgarian Communist Party), BCP (Bulgarian Communist Party), BOC (Bulgarian Olympic Committee), Brinton A., BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), Girginov V., Girginov V., Gruneau R., Haralampiev D., Henry I., Jessop B., Levinson C., Manolova M., Nassis P., Offe C., Riordan J., Riordan J., Stoichev A., Toshkova V., Vassev A., Vassil Girginov, Velev G., Weiss L.   +39 more
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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

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
doaj   +1 more source

The devolution paradigm: theoretical critiques and the case of Kenya [PDF]

, 2019
Devolution’s assumptions presume democracy, yet its proponents view it as an antidote to repressive centralized states, where its assumptions do not hold.
Mueller, Susanne D.
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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

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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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

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
doaj   +1 more source