Seeing like a citizen: Experimental evidence on how empowerment affects engagement with the state
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Building a strong and effective state requires revenue. Yet, in many low‐income countries, citizens do not make formal payments to the state or forego engaging with the state altogether due to vulnerability to opportunistic demands by state agents. We study two randomized interventions in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, designed to
Soeren J. Henn +4 more
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Association between neurodegenerative plasma biomarkers and geriatric depression in older adults with and without clinical dementia in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [PDF]
Front PsychiatryTsengele N +11 more
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The economic foundations of powersharing: Evidence from Africa
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract How—and with whom—do rulers share power? Existing research focuses on the strategic logic of powersharing. In this paper, we analyze its economic foundations. Powersharing is modeled as a subnational fiscal contract, in which rulers allocate political representation based on constituencies’ revenue potential. Empirically, we combine historical
Yannick I. Pengl, Philip Roessler
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Adherence to cholera prevention measures and associated factors among adults in three health zones of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [PDF]
BMC Infect DisBepouka B, Matangi B, Ndongosi AN.
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Rebuilding trust in national police: The case of the UN mission in Mali
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract International interventions often aim to reinforce both capacity as well as perceived legitimacy of national security forces. However, how peacekeeping operations manage to improve trust in the national police has received limited attention. In this article, we evaluate whether and how UN missions can (re‐)build trust in the national police ...
Nadine Ansorg +2 more
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Correction: Zinc oxide nanoparticles mitigate insulin resistance in a D-galactose-induced C57BL/6 mouse model. [PDF]
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)Ramasubbu K, V DR.
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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Diagnostic Yield of Abdominal Wall Fat Pad Biopsy for Systemic Amyloidosis in a Low-Prevalence Referral Cohort. [PDF]
Dermatol Pract ConceptTeixeira J +3 more
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Antifouling Polysulfone/Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube/Terbium Oxide Nanocomposite Nanofiltration Membrane for Dye Removal Applications. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel)Alosaimi AM.
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