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The convergence coefficient across political systems. [PDF]
ScientificWorldJournal, 2013 Formal work on the electoral model often suggests that parties or candidates should locate themselves at the electoral mean. Recent research has found no evidence of such convergence. In order to explain nonconvergence, the stochastic electoral model is extended by including estimates of electoral valence.
Gallego M, Schofield N.
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InterCarto InterGIS, 2017 The main purpose of any geographical name is the fixation of a particular object or territory with a spatial reference on the earth’s surface. Regional toponymy is a priceless monument of spiritual culture of humanity, preserving the memory of the ...
S A Teslenok, K S Teslenok
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Pasikowski’s Pigs as an illustration of vetting in a transitional society [PDF]
Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, 2021 Pigs, a 1992 movie directed by Władysław Pasikowski, has become an iconic picture over the years, growing into a source of quotes and becoming a cult classic.
Mateusz Grabarczyk
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Proces uzgadniania pamięci w kontekście „wojny pomników” na Ukrainie w latach 2014-2022
Politeja, 2023 THE PROCESS OF MEMORIAL RECONCILIATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE “WAR OF MONUMENTS” IN UKRAINE IN 2014-2022 The years 2014-2022 witnessed dynamic changes in Ukraine’s social, political and symbolic landscape.
Katarzyna Jędraszczyk
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City &Society, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 101-111, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Decades of politically motivated place renaming have prompted the population of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, to adopt a bottom‐up vernacular toponymic register, wherein locations are indicated in relation to points of reference known as orientiry. Orientiry take cues from the built environment and are generated through the population's
Nikolaos Olma
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The “fascist” and the “potato beetle”
American Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 30-42, February 2023., 2023 Abstract Human‐to‐insect comparisons turn the stomachs of scholars of language and discrimination, but do they incite violence? In the spring of 2014, some Ukrainians referred to people they suspected of separatist sympathies as kolorady, or Colorado potato beetles, a notorious invasive pest. But kolorad was also a response to a pro‐Russian epithet for
Deborah A. Jones
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Transitional Justice and the Constitutional Crisis: The Case of Poland (2015–2019) [PDF]
Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, 2019 During the last four years the situation in Poland has been a matter of interest to the worldwide legal community mostly due to the constitutional crisis.
Michał Krotoszyński
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On the Frontline of European Memory Wars: Memory Laws and Policy in Ukraine
European Papers, 2020 (Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2020 5(1), 119-136 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. - II. Dealing with the communist past: the Ukrainian case. - II.1. Ukraine's waves of decommunization.
Alina Cherviatsova
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Uniformed Services Pension Amendment Acts in Poland as Part of State Politics of Memory [PDF]
Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, 2019 The article is an analysis of the regulations regarding the reduction of pensions of former officers of the People's Republic of Poland’s security services as an element of state politics of memory, presenting the Uniformed Services Pension Amendment ...
Mateusz Grabarczyk
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Un Lénine peut en cacher un autre
Cahiers d’histoire, 2022 The fall of real socialism in Eastern Europe has brought about a radical transformation of the symbolic order in these countries, beginning with the wiping out, destruction or, more simply, the slow abandonment of the monuments of the Soviet era.
Dimitris Fasfalis
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