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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

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ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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Few rights, great threats, endless struggles: setbacks and resistance in the last decade of fights for legal abortion in Brazil. [PDF]

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Haiti: from dictatorship to dictatorship

Race & Class, 1988
Since the ousting of Baby Doc under mass, popular pressure in 1986, and the assumption of power by a military junta - ostensibly to oversee the passage to civilian government - the struggle in Haiti for even minimal justice and democracy has continued.
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Dictatorship

1996
Abstract One of the great challenges a constitutional democracy faces is to protect itself from those who would impose an authoritarian regime on the polity. The first observation to be made is that no set of institutions is “dictatorship proof.” A constitution is a set of rules written on a piece of paper, or perhaps written into the
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Dictatorship

2018
The military undertook a thorough militarization of the city following the 1976 coup, not just in waging the dirty war but by taking control of the government bureaucracy and university. Various sectoral interests and institutions (the press, the judiciary, business, the Catholic Church) were complicit in the state terrorism, some actively others ...
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Social Dictatorships

2020
Why have social spending levels and social policy trajectories diverged so drastically across labour-abundant MENA regimes? And how can we explain the persistence of social spending after divergence? This books sets out to answer both questions. Itdevelops a theory about the emergence of authoritarian welfare states, arguing that autocratic leaders ...
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Dictatorship

2019
Max Adler, Mark E. Blum
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