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Beyond Democratic Backsliding: Bureaucracy, Elite Dynamics and Administrative Change in Authoritarian Transitions

open access: yesGovernance, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how political and administrative elites shape regime transformations under authoritarian rule, proposing an elite‐centered analytical perspective that complements prevailing accounts of “democratic backsliding.” We show how embedding political–administrative relations within a broader elite‐theoretical framework clarifies ...
Kutsal Yesilkagit, Johan Christensen
wiley   +1 more source

Democratic Decline and Return Migration: What Motivates Highly‐Skilled Voluntary Return to Post‐2016 Turkey?

open access: yesInternational Migration, Volume 64, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Migration scholars often present democratic decline as an emigration driver. This effect is more pronounced among highly‐skilled citizens who have the resources and capability to settle abroad. Yet, not much attention has been paid to why highly‐skilled emigrants would opt to return to their autocratizing countries, even if they are concerned ...
Gülay Türkmen
wiley   +1 more source

Racialized Labour in the Colonial Food Regime: The Whitening of England's Farmworkers

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT The crystallization of a colonial food regime in the 1870s centred around Britain is key to historical accounts of agrarian political economy. Yet such accounts have neglected the role of the agrarian proletariat in shaping this regime from below and its basis in racialized hierarchy.
Ben Richardson
wiley   +1 more source

National populism in Slovakia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Gyarfasova, Olga, Meseznikov, Grigorij
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Historical Institutionalism and Transnational Influence: Social Policy Responses to the Great Depression in the United States and Canada

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT The Great Depression was a turning point in the development of social programming in North America. This paper explores the politics of social policy expansion during the Great Depression in the United States and Canada through an analytical lens that combines the insights of historical institutionalism and the analysis of transnational ...
Daniel Béland   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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