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Autonomy and capacity: a state-centred approach to post-communist transition in Central Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The paper examines state characteristics and their policy implications in five Central European post-communist countries. It argues that policies on macroeconomic stabilisation, privatisation and FDI had been shaped by state-society relations, which, in ...
Adam, Z.
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Government Spending and Civic Engagement: Exploring the Role of Civil Society Participation and Voting in 28 Democracies

open access: yesKyklos, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 357-376, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This study offers causal evidence on how distinct forms of civic engagement affect government spending across 28 democracies between 2000 and 2024. Its main innovation lies in disentangling the fiscal effects of two channels of engagement—civil society participation and electoral turnout—through an original identification strategy that ...
Anna Lo Prete, Agnese Sacchi
wiley   +1 more source

Hakoah Vienna and the International Nature of Interwar Austrian Sports

open access: yes, 2011
Hakoah Vienna was the most important Jewish sports organization in interwar Austria. Indeed, Hakoah, which means strength or power in Hebrew, was one of the most significant sports clubs on the continent of Europe during that period.
Bowman, William
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French responses to the Prague Spring: connections, (mis)perception and appropriation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Looking at the vast literature on the events of 1968 in various European countries, it is striking that the histories of '1968' of the Western and Eastern halves of the continent are largely still written separately.1 Nevertheless, despite the very ...
Acquaviva   +26 more
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Costs and Benefits of Monetary Disintegration:The Czech-Slovak Case [PDF]

open access: yes
In 1992, the political dissolution of Czechoslovakia highlighted the problem of designing monetary disintegration for two interdependent republics. This paper weighs costs and benefits of the gradual approach to monetary disintegration that was applied ...
Katerina Smidkova
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Environmental Ethics (Background Materials of the Dobris Ministerial Conference 1991)

open access: yesEnvigogika, 2007
• Erazim KOHAK, Professor of Philosophy, Charles' University, Prague, Czechoslovakia and Boston University, Boston, Mass., USA: Up-Front Ecology • Dieter BIRNBACHER, Priv.- Doz., Dr., Ak.
Redakce Envigogika
doaj   +1 more source

The image of the Czech, the Slovak, Czechoslovakia and Slovakia since 1919 in Polish historiography, in handbooks and school curricula

open access: yesЖурнал Белорусского государственного университета: История, 2017
The theme of the article is a picture of Czechia, Slovakia, and Czechoslovakia in Polish historiography and in school textbooks after 1919. The author believes that the content of this image had a significant impact on the so-called Cieszyn question in ...
Михаил Ярнецкий
doaj  

Morphology of the Wadati-Benioff zone and volcanismin Ecuador and northern Perú

open access: yesGeofísica Internacional, 1987
Se identificaron la morfología y los parámetros de la zona de Wadati-Benioff con base en la distribuci6n de los focos de terremotos en la región de Ecuador y del norte de Perú.
V. Hanus, J. Vanek
doaj   +1 more source

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