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The Power Elite in Greenland

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this research note, we map the power elite in Greenland, amidst the current geopolitical interest in the nation. Using social network analysis, we identify a power elite of 123 individuals as the central circle in an extensive affiliation network data on 3412 positions held by a total 2052 individuals in 456 affiliations.
Morten Fischer Sivertsen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Fields and Migration Regimes: Citizenship by Investment

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the past decade, scholars of international migration have made remarkable strides in unpacking the complex infrastructures that channel cross‐border mobility by investigating the operation of profit‐oriented migration industries and the regulatory tussles of multilevel migration governance.
Kristin Surak
wiley   +1 more source

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Does Foreign Investors’ Information Access Vary with Geopolitical Tensions? Evidence from Corporate Conference Calls

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how foreign investors’ access to corporate information varies with pairwise geopolitical tensions between the investor's and investee's countries. Using a sample of 1,760 country‐pairs, we find that geopolitical tensions between a conference call host firm's country and a foreign country relate negatively with investor participation ...
YIFEI LU   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Capitalization of state tax rates in housing values at state borders, 2000–2017

open access: yesReal Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We derive a model that demonstrates the interrelationship between housing prices, tax rates, government services, and naturally occurring amenities between adjacent markets. The model is tested against county‐level data at state borders using US Census housing price data from 2000 to 2017.
Yulong Chen, Liyuan Ma, Peter F. Orazem
wiley   +1 more source

Programme Science in PEPFAR: a pathway to a sustainable HIV response

open access: yesJournal of the International AIDS Society
Michael J. A. Reid   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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