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Do party-states transform by learning? The structural background of the different transformation paths in view of the Romanian, Hungarian and Chinese cases [PDF]
Through the introduction of a comparative party-state model, I will first demonstrate that due to specific structural and dynamic constraints, the capacity of party-states to learn is both limited and uneven.
Maria Csanadi
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Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper investigates the impact of Covid‐19, border closure, and the military coup on the mining and trading of Kachin amber in northern Myanmar. Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic and the 2021 military coup have dramatically affected the lives and livelihoods of communities across Myanmar.
Seng Lawn Dan, Alessandro Rippa
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Area, EarlyView.Abstract This paper develops a historical and political geographical analysis of the UK Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD). Empirically it is grounded in archival study of IRD files concerning operations in Ghana and South Africa during the Cold War and specifically the 1960s and 1970s.
Ben Gowland
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Political alternation as a restraint on investing in influence : evidence from the post-communist transition [PDF]
The authors develop and implement a method for measuring the frequency of changes in power among distinct leaders and ideologically distinct parties that is comparable across political systems.
Hoff, Karla +2 more
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Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent calls from the World Health Organization (WHO) to globally impose a one‐time tax, labelled as “Health tax”, on tobacco, alcohol and sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) aim to achieve a 50% retail price increase to reduce consumption and improve health outcomes.
Hazem Abbas +6 more
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Accountability and Hyperaccountability in Child Protection Scandals
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The number of child abuse–related deaths has decreased significantly in the United Kingdom over the past 50 years, but there remains public and political concern about the actual and perceived risk of child deaths, with resultant processes enacted to supervise child protection practice.
Robin Sen, John Devaney
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Heroes of Berlin Wall Struggle
, 2014 When the Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago, on Nov. 9, 1989, symbolically signaling the end of the Cold War, it was no surprise that many credited President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for bringing it down.
Bowman, William D.
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how the Swedish child welfare services (CWSs) are described in Arabic‐speaking social media, with a focus on the ‘LVU campaign.’ The material consists of Facebook and YouTube posts and comments about the Swedish CWSs' actions in child mistreatment cases involving migrant families.
Dana Sofi, Jonas Stier, Emmie Wahlström
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Schools as Sites of Activism: Students' Political Socialisation and Activism at School
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores students' political socialisation and activism at school. It draws on research from two datasets: interviews with 24 activists aged 15–25, and data from a national survey of 1600 school students in Wales. Wales offers a unique perspective as a case study for the enactment of young people's civil and political rights, given ...
Rhian Barrance +3 more
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Theorising the politics of famine: Bangladesh in 1974. [PDF]
DisastersHossain N.
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