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Individualism, Collectivism and Trade

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
AbstractWhile economists recognize the important role of formal institutions in the promotion of trade, there is increasing agreement that institutions are typically endogenous to culture, making it difficult to disentangle their separate contributions.
Aidin Hajikhameneh, Erik O. Kimbrough
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Moral Bureaucracies: Objects, Values and Affects in a UK Asylum Office

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT British asylum bureaucracy carries a paradoxical mandate: To allocate humanitarian protection while operating inside a policy regime explicitly designed to deter. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Home Office decision‐making office, this article examines how that contradiction is materialized in mundane bureaucratic objects—a whiteboard ...
Ana Aliverti
wiley   +1 more source

Rebuilding Tripartism and Labor Standards From Below? Legitimation Politics and Risks Around Local Employment Standards

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 440-451, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Establishing voluntary labor standards depends on securing the voluntary engagement of multiple actors with potentially diverging interests. This paper examines the legitimation politics and processes surrounding attempts to develop local labor standards through an empirical study of local employment charters in England.
Ceri Hughes, Stephen Mustchin, Miguel Martínez Lucio   +2 more
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The Kazakh Diaspora During the Period of Social and Political Experiments in Mongolia (1920s–1950s) and Their Impact on Regional Relations Between Mongolia and Kazakhstan

Dve Domovini
This study explores the migration and adaptation of the Kazakh diaspora in Mongolia during the twentieth century, focusing on the sociopolitical impacts of Soviet policies, collectivization, and repression.
Salima Omash, Kalybek Koblandin, Aigerim Ospanova   +2 more
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‘It's a Mission and a Profession’. The Typology of Rural Entrepreneurs and Their Role in the Social Construction of Landscapes

Sociologia Ruralis, Volume 66, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Landscapes are collectively constructed entities, with many actors involved in the process, one of the most important being rural entrepreneurs. We examine the relationship between rural entrepreneurs and the landscape from both sides, as a two‐way entrepreneurial process, to shed light on entrepreneurs’ use of environmental resources and the ...
Márta Kiss, Bernadett Csurgó, Kyra Tomay   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of the land cadastre in Czech Lands and present problem issues related to recording plots drawings of the simplified registry into the maps

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2006
The Czech cadastre is noticeable because of the fact that after the year 1950, after collectivization – merging individual pieces of land into Standard Farming Cooperatives – there were not owners´ plots borders introduced into land maps but borders of ...
Jelena Vitásková, František Toman, Milada Šťastná   +2 more
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Government Policy, Low‐ and High‐Skilled Labour, and Technical Inefficiency in Chinese Agriculture, 1952–2008

Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 1071-1088, September 2026.
ABSTRACT We utilize Chinese provincial data to explore how government policies affected grain production between 1952 and 2008. We adapt the Caselli‐Coleman framework to allow multiple inputs including fertilizer, land and capital as well as skilled and unskilled labour.
Yulong Chen, Peter F. Orazem
wiley   +1 more source

The Great Cosmic Silence: What Does the Fermi Paradox Tell About the Future of Humanity?

Global Policy, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 553-565, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how institutional time horizons shape the long‐term survival prospects of human technological civilisation. While research on global catastrophic and existential risks has expanded, the temporal structures of political‐economic institutions remain underexamined.
Heikki Patomäki
wiley   +1 more source

Collectivization in the village Nemetice in 1950-1960 [PDF]

, 2013
(in English): The basis of the text is focusing on the explanation of the topic of the collectivization of Czech country on the example of the South Bohemian village Nemetice between years 1950- 1960, with the use of micro-historical probe to the life of
Jirsa, Tomáš
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Collectivization as a page of history and its place in the national ideology of modern Russia

Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология
The article substantiates the necessity of the national ideology of the modern Russian Federation to be based on adequate representations of most important events of the Soviet period of the country’s history.
V. V. Babashkin, S. I. Tolstov
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