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Association of reproductive traits with captive‐ versus wild‐sourced birds in trade
Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 4, August 2023., 2023 Abstract The wildlife trade is a billion‐dollar global business, involving millions of people, thousands of species, and hundreds of millions of individual organisms. Unravelling whether trade targets reproductively distinct species and whether this preference varies between captive‐ and wild‐sourced species is a crucial question.
Oscar Morton +3 more
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Gender, political inclusion, and democracy in Africa: Some empirical evidence
Politics &Policy, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 137-155, February 2023., 2023 Abstract The objective of this study is to examine the effect of political inclusion on democracy in Africa. The results of the analyses through ordinary least squares, system generalized method of moments, IV Tobit and instrumental variables two stage least squares show that gender political inclusion enhances democracy in Africa.
Tii Nchofoung +3 more
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The politics of Uber: Infrastructural power in the United States and Europe
Regulation &Governance, Volume 17, Issue 1, Page 177-194, January 2023., 2023 Abstract Platform firms have been depicted as having structural and instrumental power and being able to prevail in regulatory battles. This article, in contrast, documents how they have often adapted to regulations and provide different services across locales. I show that platform firms have a specific type of power, infrastructural power, that stems
Jimena Valdez
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 564-574, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
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Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 359-379, Fall 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper examines the impact of informal quotas on the substantive representation of women in appointed upper parliaments using the Omani State Council as a case study. Although no formal gender quota has been institutionalized in Oman, it is presumed that the Sultan will assign 17% of the seats to women, effectively an informal quota ...
Nawra Al‐Lawati
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The role of regions in global value chains: an analysis for the European Union
Papers in Regional Science, Volume 101, Issue 4, Page 771-794, August 2022., 2022 Abstract While considerable attention has been directed to the national‐level impacts of global value chains, far less attention has been focused on the way in which global production fragmentation has affected regional economies. Using some measures derived from a multiregional, multisectoral input–output model, this paper analyzes the position and ...
Lucía Bolea +4 more
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Cuotas de género y tipo de lista en América Latina
Opinião Pública, 2007 Las reformas electorales llevadas a cabo en algunos países de América Latina, a partir de los '90, han producido resultados cuyo análisis es ineludible para la comprensión del acceso de las mujeres a los cargos electivos.
Nélida Archenti, María Inés Tula
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Positive Discrimination, Gender Quotas and Feminist Narratives in Museums of Contemporary Art
Anales de Historia del Arte, 2018 Aside from a certain reluctance to admit the extent of its severity, the well-known gender gap, unfavourable to women artists, faces the difficulty of a lack of agreement on the effectiveness of problem-solving methods.
Cristina Nualart
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Socioeconomia i llengua: entre la protecció pública i l’autonomia privada
Revista de Llengua i Dret - Journal of Language and Law, 2019 La protecció dels drets lingüístics en les relacions privades respon generalment a una fase d’evolució de les polítiques lingüístiques. La necessitat de respectar l’autonomia privada i que les mesures d’intervenció siguin proporcionades condiciona el ...
Alba Nogueira López
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Equidade na Educação Superior no Brasil: Uma Análise Multinomial das Políticas Públicas de Acesso
Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2015 O presente artigo avalia, sob a base do conceito de igualdade de oportunidades, a coerência das políticas de cotas ProUni e FIES como geradoras de equidade no acesso ao ensino superior.
Cristina B. de Souza Rossetto +1 more
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