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The Value of Political Capital: Dictatorship Collaborators as Business Elites
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018 What is the value of political capital for individuals? Towards the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, military and civilian collaborators entered the business elite, controlling the largest and most important firms in the country.
F. González, M. Prem
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Brazilian Military Dictatorship: theoretical and historiographical approximations
Tempo e Argumento, 2017 As is common in the History of Present, there is a significant interconnection between politics and academic research regarding the history of the Brazilian military dictatorship.
Carlos Fico
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Fear and citizen coordination against dictatorship
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2018 Despite numerous studies showing that emotions influence political decision making, there is scant literature giving a formal treatment to this phenomenon.
A. Aldama +2 more
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The Life and Times of Ceaușescu Jokes
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2019 Political humour, as an indispensable part of popular culture, played a complex role under communism in Romania. It was a catalyst of the general discontent towards the catastrophic effects of Ceaușescu’s megalomaniac dictatorship, a forbidden, dangerous
Gabriela Glăvan
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Politikon, 2017 Why do Western powers support ruthless dictatorships in allied countries, but at other times condemn the actions of these same dictatorships in support of democratic revolutionaries?
Kirstie Lynn Dobbs, JeongWoo Lee
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Pedro Lemebel: género y sociedad Pedro Lemebel: Gender and Society
Aisthesis, 2009 El artículo, primero, examina la crónica urbana de Pedro Lemebel a la luz de sus condiciones históricas de producción y de lectura (la memoria de la dictadura y el presente de la mercancía globalizada).
Leonidas Morales T
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Aisthesis, 2008 Vírgenes del Sol Inn Cabaret (1986), del poeta chileno Alexis Figueroa, recrea la complejidad de las relaciones en la cultura del tele-ver, en una sociedad tercermundista autoritaria y neoliberal.
Magda Sepúlveda Eriz
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Bringing Brazil's resistance songs to London: words and music in translation
Veredas, 2018 n the context of Brazil's post-2016 crisis, the article examines how a songwriting repertoire from the 1960s and 70s might still convey ideas of resistance to repression and authoritarianism across half a century of history and across the cultural and ...
David Treece
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Regression Discontinuity in Serial Dictatorship: Achievement Effects at Chicago's Exam Schools
, 2017 Many school and college admission systems use centralized mechanisms to allocate seats based on applicant preferences and school priorities. When tie-breaking uses non-randomly assigned criteria like distance or a test score, applicants with the same ...
Atila Abdulkadroǧlu +4 more
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REHMLAC, 2013 This research aims to evaluate the position of Freemasonry in Brazil’s political, economic and socialrealms,from 1960 to 1989 which is the period of planning and initiation of a military coup.
Tatiana Martins Alméri
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