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“We Have Come to Offer Something Which (They) Were Not Even Looking for”: U.S. Christian Conservative Evangelical Faith Missions in the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
Diego Mauricio Cortés
wiley   +1 more source

Cuba's Three Autocratic Transitions: From Revolutionary Regime to (Post)Totalitarianism and New Authoritarianism?

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Cuba is the oldest and most consolidated autocracy in the Americas. Its Revolution in 1959, the charisma of Fidel Castro, the single‐party system and the US embargo have made the island an exceptional case. However, recent developments such as popular protests, limited reforms, emigration or socio‐economic decline are bringing about some ...
Armando Chaguaceda, Susanne Gratius
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Adult Education in the Context of the Communist Education Reform in Romania: Policies, Institutions and Publications (1945–1955)

, 2014
This paper proposes a systematic analysis of adult education in the context of the political changes in post-World War II Romania. The analysis of legislative documents allows us to identify four major directions of adult education in the first decade of
Momanu, Mariana, Samoilă, Magda-Elena
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Progress and Poverty: Walter Rodney's Legacy

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Volume 85, Issue 2, Page 283-293, March 2026.
ABSTRACT The conventional view of human progress states that the more humanity makes progress, the less poverty is entrenched. But, global development is currently characterized by a persistent combination of economic progress and growing relative poverty. This endemic inequality has puzzled economists for years.
Franklin Obeng‐Odoom
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Cannibal Salvage Expenditure: The Subaltern Style of the Urban Peruvian Amazon

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the political ecology of subaltern existence at the urban cutting edge of our apocalyptic present, in the case of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon. Through an ethnographically surrealist montage of multiple elements across the themes of accumulation, architecture, and art, cannibal salvage expenditure emerges as a subversive ...
Japhy Wilson
wiley   +1 more source

Life‐Cycle and Generational Influences on Chinese Political Behavior and Attitudes: Age Matters, and so Does Context

Social Science Quarterly, Volume 107, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective This article aims to revisit the relative importance of age versus generation in explaining differences of political behavior and attitudes across age cohorts in China, assess the impact of contextual changes affecting multiple age groups, and identify special characteristics of attitudes and behavior of Generation Z. Method Analysis
Robert Harmel, Zhaoqing Li, Chen Shen, Yao‐Yuan Yeh   +3 more
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The Sovietisation of Romania, 1946-1948 – the first two years behind the curtain of propaganda

, 2016
Dogmatic discourse and institutionalized control build a totalitarian state on two main pillars: propaganda and indoctrination. Our study analyzes the phenomena of cultural mimesis and ideological transplantation inside the Romanian communist system. The
Groza, Cristian Alexandru
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Is Homo Economicus Performative? Evidence From a Beauty Contest Experiment With Mainstream and Non‐Mainstream Academic Economists

Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 38-52, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Does studying mainstream microeconomics cause individuals to behave more like the textbook version of homo economicus? Most studies suggesting a positive answer have used student samples and focused on self‐interested behaviors in collective dilemma situations.
Mikhail Sokolov, Alexander Libman
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Party Strength in New Fields: The Chinese Communist Party’s Tactics for Penetrating “Two New” Organizations in the Non-Public Sector

Journal of East Asian Studies
Party-based authoritarian regimes have often demonstrated remarkable resilience throughout wars, revolutions, and state-building processes. Yet how they consolidate authority in newly emerging socioeconomic fields that arise from the (partial ...
Han Zhang, Huirong Chen, Shengxiang Ji
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Communist indoctrination techniques

, 2011
An account of Communist brainwashing and its effects on captured American soldiers during the Korean War.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/limiteddigitalresources/1011/thumbnail ...
Mayer, William E.
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