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Unprincipled Principals in the Accountability Chain: Autonomy and Political Control Within Tax Administration in a Developing Country Context

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT SDG 16 emphasizes the need for accountable institutions, often based on the assumption that public officials are accountable to politicians, who in turn are accountable to citizens. However, in many developing countries, neopatrimonial governance can weaken this accountability chain, as politicians themselves may act as “unprincipled ...
Edidiong Bassey, Emer Mulligan
wiley   +1 more source

Le modèle du pasteur du Désert : l’exemple de Pierre Peirot (1712-1772)

open access: yesChrétiens et Sociétés
During the so-called “Desert” period, when Protestantism is banned in France, lay preachers replace the pastors, who disappeared from the kingdom following the Revocation.
Sarah Rouvière
doaj   +1 more source

Entre culture et contre-culture ? Le positionnement du secteur socioculturel dans le Berlin de l’après-unification

open access: yesCahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2013
The sociocultural sector is of particular interest when considering counter-cultures, as art is by definition firstly perceived as an instrument of social innovation.
Elisa Goudin-Steinmann
doaj   +1 more source

Shareholder Activism: Affliction for Incumbent CEOs?

open access: yesFinancial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how shareholder activism shapes CEO careers by distinguishing between two competing hypotheses: discipline and reallocation. Employing a control function approach with expected mutual fund fire sales and purchases as exclusion restrictions, we analyze 3799 US campaigns from 2006 to 2018.
Jana P. Fidrmuc   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sexual Dissidence

open access: yes, 1991
Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why, in other words, is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is it history, rather than human nature, which has produced this paradoxical ...
Jonathan Dollimore
core   +1 more source

Striking for a Just Transition? North American Auto Unions and the Electric Vehicle Transition

open access: yesIndustrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decarbonization heightens risks for workers, but union strategies shape how these risks are managed and whether new jobs offer quality employment. This paper compares U.S. and Canadian auto unions during the 2023 Detroit Three bargaining, focusing on strategic capacities and internal politics to explain their divergent responses to the EV ...
Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer, Dongwoo Park
wiley   +1 more source

Governing Through Criminal Selectivity and Lawfare: Non‐Democratic Politics to Entrench Authoritarian Populist Imagination

open access: yesInternational Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across much of the Global South and increasingly in the Global North, authoritarian populist imagination blurs boundaries between legality and illegality, weaponising law to suppress dissent while tolerating violence by allied actors. This imagination establishes a symbolic boundary mechanism between punitive/eliminative violence for political
Erman Örsan Yetiş
wiley   +1 more source

Balancing between dissent and conformity: Estonian self-administration under German occupation, 1941–1944 [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Română pentru Studii Baltice şi Nordice, 2019
When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, it also conquered the territory of Estonia by the end of the year. The German occupation administration of the new territories ruled by the Germans needed the help of local residents ...
Kari Alenius
doaj  

Partidos armados: La lógica oficial y las voces disidentes (Argentina, 1976-1977)

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2008
The article shows the emergence within the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo and the Montoneros, of dissident voices that contested some actions and statements of their leaders.
Maria Matilde Ollier
doaj   +1 more source

From Competition to Compartmentalization: Rethinking Türkiye‐Gulf Relations

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract For nearly a decade following the Arab uprisings, relations between Ankara and key Gulf capitals were marked by intense rivalry and proxy contestation across several regional arenas, notably in Egypt and Syria. Why did relations shift toward pragmatic cooperation after such prolonged polarization?
Betul Dogan‐Akkas
wiley   +1 more source

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