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Impunidad, corrupción y derechos humanos
El objetivo del artículo es analizar el impacto que la corrupción y la impunidad tienen sobre las violaciones a derechos humanos. Para ello, se realizaron varios modelos estadísticos.
Horacio Ortiz, Daniel Vázquez
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Corrupción en la función pública: un estudio sobre correlaciones entre corrupción, calidad de la democracia, gobernanza, desigualdad de renta y desempleo en el mundo (2008-2012) [PDF]
El estudio cuantitativo de la corrupción ha crecido en las últimas décadas, abriendo caminos sin precedentes para la pesquisa social. En este trabajo, se hace una comparación transnacional sobre la percepción de corrupción en la función pública desde ...
Thiago Perez Bernardes de Moraes+1 more
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Abstract Construction booms have dominated Albania's economy and politics since the late 1990s. These booms continued even during times of illiquidity. One of the sources of financing construction in Albania is the practice of klering (in‐kind payments).
Smoki Musaraj
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Abstract The literature on the recent exponential growth of the extractive industry in Latin America and beyond has documented the various processes through which this sector has been empowered to expand its frontier, as well as the strategies that affected communities employ to resist it.
Karine Vanthuyne, Marie Christine Dugal
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Marco para entender y atender la corrupción sistémica en gobiernos locales [PDF]
Resumen La corrupción es un fenómeno complejo. Los diagnósticos empleados para justificar medidas anticorrupción usualmente tienden a desestimarla.
Oliver David Meza Canales+2 more
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BEYOND CONVENTIONAL BOUNDARIES
According to conventional wisdom, organized criminal activity is perpetrated primarily by non‐state, private actors who are occasionally [or not] protected by corrupt government officials. From this perspective, a hard distinction is made between those who provide protection to criminals (e.g., politicians or law enforcement officials) and the ...
Alexander Kupatadze
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Objective measurement of Spanish emotion vocabulary
Current research on emotion knowledge and competence emphasises the role of language. Emotion vocabulary is one of the indicators of emotion knowledge that can be objectively measured; however, the metric properties of the scores obtained in tests and tasks to measure it have seldom been adequate.
Ana R. Delgado+4 more
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Abstract In recent years Lebanon has been facing economic challenges. Various Lebanese satire shows deal with the difficult economic situation in Lebanon, displaying the high cost of living, corruption, and poor infrastructure. It seems that these shows are faithfully airing public grievances, but is this the case?
Avner Asher, Dan Naor, Yossi Mann
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THE PROMISE OF FOG CAPTURE: Ground‐Touching Clouds as a Material (Im)Possibility in Peru
ABSTRACT This article centers on an NGO‐induced fog‐capture project in Lima, Peru. While presented by the NGO as an alternative water‐supply system for residents lacking state infrastructure, the fog catchers ultimately failed to live up to promises about potable water.
CHAKAD OJANI
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The nation of the people: An analysis of Podemos and Five Star Movement's discourse on the nation
Abstract This article empirically explores how populist actors talk about the nation. This is a research area mostly tackled in studies on right‐wing populism, with other forms of populist politics usually left out of the analysis. To fill this academic gap, we focus on the Spanish party Podemos and the Italian Five Star Movement (M5S). The former is a
Jacopo Custodi, Enrico Padoan
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