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Studies of Transition States and Societies, 2015 The use of personal connections to gain preferential access to goods and services and circumvent formal procedures exists in all countries to varying degrees.
Colin C Williams, Olga Onoshchenko
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The Exceptions to Principle of Merit in Taking up the Public Function [PDF]
الرافدین للحقوقSummaryThe principle of merit is breached from the ground up when there are negative exceptions, which do not worry worse in terms of the result of not applying the principle to favoritism, cronyism and corruption, which makes it similar to staying ink ...
Zubaid Al Taha, Sivan Mekerdegean
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To address the shortcomings associated with state ownership, countries have implemented various legal strategies to curb political influence in state‐owned enterprises. This research studies whether these strategies constrain the government's ability to use their appointment powers for political considerations.
Pablo Torres
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Trust in Regulation in a Time of Revolution
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines trust in regulation as a core value and precondition of the modern liberal democratic regulatory state. It develops a concept of justified trust in regulation, grounded in regulatory trustworthiness—honesty, competence, and reliability—rather than in proxies such as partisan loyalty, blind faith, obedience, or resignation.
Cristie Ford
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From “dull” to “cheerful”: the relevance of Adam Smith for today [PDF]
EconomiAPurpose – Is there a secret recipe for economic growth? Design/methodology/approach – No, there is no recipe, but we can extrapolate some pieces of advice from Adam Smith. Findings – An economy can leave behind its “dull” stagnant state and grow when its
Maria Pia Paganelli
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When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract We write and read ethnography in the wake of time passing: a fact that has long thrown up a host of epistemological and ethical issues for the doing of anthropology. In this essay I revisit this classic problem—the problem of the ethnographic present—asking what happens when we rethink the relationship between ‘the present’ and ‘presence’, the
Michael Edwards
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Blockchain for the Arts and Humanities
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT As born‐digital cultural materials proliferate, the arts and humanities require infrastructures that guarantee provenance, authenticity, and equitable access. This paper delivers a comprehensive, critical survey of blockchain's potential and limits across the sector.
James O'Sullivan
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Selected Manifestations of Social Deviance in Organizational Culture
Sociologie Românească, 2015 The objective of this paper is to contribute to the discourse about the issues of trust in management, authority and meaningfulness of human labour, which are inseparably connected with effectiveness, productivity, competitiveness of companies ...
Martina Urbanova, Jana Dundelova
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Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT What role has the state played in the establishment of the current food regime in a post‐socialist setting? Focusing on Croatia, I undertake a critical discourse analysis of the national agricultural strategies enacted during the neoliberal transition between 1991 and 2013.
Alexander Gavranich
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Contemporary European Politics, Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT In this article, we illustrate the effects of the post‐socialist transformation and the resulting politically hybrid contexts on Europeanisation by presenting the case of Napliget, a wealthy village within the Budapest Agglomeration. Our detailed case study of the settlement, within a research project on local planning and development, also ...
Adrienne Csizmady +2 more
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