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FinTech and Environmental Sustainability: Evidence From Brazil
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the dynamic interplay between economic growth and environmental sustainability from a FinTech perspective, using Brazil as a case study. While FinTech's contribution to green transformation, sustainable finance, and resource efficiency has gained increasing attention, a notable lack of empirical research remains to assess ...
Kemal Eyuboglu, Umut Uzar
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Local elections and democratic backsliding: pragmatic politics in Southeast Asia
Frontiers in Political ScienceDemocratic backsliding is commonly studied on a national scale, but local elections now define the lines of democratic strength or weakness in Southeast Asia.
Sumit Kumar Pandey +2 more
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A new regime divide? Affective polarization and attitudes towards democratic backsliding
, 2021 Recently, much scholarship has studied affective polarization, an identity-based positive bias towards elites and supporters of one’s own party coupled with a dislike for rival parties and their supporters.
Natasha Wunsch, Theresa Gessler
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Across garment factories in the Global South, the promise of “ethical fashion” coexists with poverty wages and retaliation. This study examines why the global call for decent work has not improved labor conditions in Bangladesh's ready‐made garment industry.
Md. Rafiqul Islam Rana
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Backsliding under contested oversight
Political Science Research and MethodsCitizens do not directly observe democratic backsliding and, as a result, may hesitate to respond to subversion. We develop a model of third-party oversight bodies, such as the media or courts, that detect and assess actions that may be subversive to ...
Robert Gulotty, Zhaotian Luo
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A new regime divide? Partisan affect and attitudes towards democratic backsliding
, 2023 Affective polarization has been posited as a key explanation for citizens’ tolerance towards democratic backsliding. Our study adopts the opposite perspective, theorizing partisan-based affective divides not as a cause of backsliding, but its consequence.
Natasha Wunsch, Theresa Gessler
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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Rights into Structures: Judging in a Time of Democratic Backsliding
German Law JournalThis article explores how the new generation of legalistic autocrats consolidates power—not by committing mass human rights violations as a way of consolidating power as authoritarians of the twentieth century did, but instead by attacking checks and ...
Kim Lane Scheppele
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the dynamic interactions among climate conditions, land use, energy consumption, water resources, population dynamics, and economic growth within the Climate–Land–Energy–Water (CLEW) nexus across 137 countries from 2000 to 2023.
Kingsley Imandojemu +4 more
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Journalism and MediaThis research examines the contemporary policy framework through which the European Union seeks to counter-disinformation, situating this agenda within the broader challenges posed by ongoing democratic backsliding.
Irina Milutinović, Aleksandra Krstić
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