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A Theory of Military Dictatorships [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 We investigate how nondemocratic regimes use the military and how this can lead to the emergence of military dictatorships. The elite may build a strong military and make the concessions necessary for the military to behave as their perfect agent, or they may risk the military turning against them.
Acemoglu D, Ticchi D, VINDIGNI, ANDREA
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Border harm and affective injustice: The politics of anger at the Melilla border, Spain
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines protests in a detention center in Melilla, Spain—a site where structural violence intersects with the everyday harms of confinement. Adopting a justice and dignity‐centered perspective, we analyze grassroots forms of resistance emerging at the border. The study focuses on the protests of Tunisian migrants and explores the
Corina Tulbure
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The Political Uses of the Past During the Cold War: Conservative Intellectuals and the Military Dictatorship in Brazil [PDF]
, 2021 The aim of this paper is to examine how, in the context of the Cold War and Latin America’s National Security dictatorships, conservative Brazilian intellectuals turned to history to demonstrate the country’s ‘incompatibility’ with progressive values and
Diogo Cunha
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
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Varia História, 2007 El artículo se propone reconstruir y analizar los informes de los servicios de inteligencia sobre la producción acerca de América Latina durante la última dictadura militar argentina (1976-1983).
Patricia Funes
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Embedding Chemistry and Pharmacy Into Sustainability
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, EarlyView.Chemistry and pharmacy provide products and processes that are indispensable for our high living standard. To understand their relationship with sustainability is important to allow them to contribute to sustainability in a sustainable manner. An integrated overview of green, circular, and sustainable chemistry and pharmacy is given and how they have t
Klaus Kümmerer
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Introduction: Fictions of African Dictatorship [PDF]
, 2018 First paragraph: Since the rise to power of autocratic leaders across Africa in the early years of independence, artists, filmmakers, novelists, poets, photographers and song-writers have been preoccupied with the compelling figure of the dictator ...
Baker, Charlotte, Grayson, Hannah
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An iconography of early nineteenth-century dictatorship in the Atlantic space
, 2021 Around 1800 the concepts of ‘dictator’ and ‘dictatorship’, like many others, changed drastically in meaning and connotation. From an extraordinary, exceptional and provisional magistracy appointed in times of severe crises, as transmitted from the ...
Prieto, Moises
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Justicia transicional y predictores del perdón político en Chile
Revista Latinoamericana de Derechos Humanos, 2015 Se estudia el rol predictor de variables psicosociales sobre las creencias en torno al perdón político luego de la dictadura chilena (N=1267). Un análisis de regresión múltiple indica que las variables que cumplen un rol más relevante (R2=0.23) son: la ...
Maitane Arnoso Martinez +2 more
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Growth-friendly dictatorships [PDF]
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015 This research argues that in highly unequal societies, a rent-seeking and self-maximizing dictator may be supported by a fraction of the population, despite the absence of special benefits to these societal groups. Importantly, it is the stakes of the dictator in the economy, in the form of capital ownership, that drive the support of individuals.
De Luca, Giacomo +2 more
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