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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
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, 2016 The Supreme Court has repeatedly employed an extortion narrative in deciding when governmental actions imposing exactions on development projects constitute takings under the Fifth Amendment.
Selmi, Daniel P.
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Lurking Patent Claims and Strategic Royalty Contracts
The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes optimal licensing contracts when a licensee faces the risk of future infringement claims by unknown patent holders. In a setting where a noncompeting licensor contracts with a monopolistic manufacturer, fixed‐fee licensing is optimal absent such claims.
Jay Pil Choi
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, 2011 This chapter deals with extortion, racketeering, and organized crime in Europe. The overall argument is that market opportunities for extortion driven by lack of trust in market dynamics and variation in the characteristics of organized criminal groups ...
Marco Zanella +3 more
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Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Sociale, 2011 The crime qualification under the 189th article of the Penal Code of Moldova is ensured not only through the objective and subjective constituents of extortion, but also through it’s precise delineation related to adjacent crimes. An overall analysis of
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A propos d’un point de vente de drogues : notes ethnographiques
L'Ordinaire des Amériques, 2014 Observations made over a period of 10 years in a popular district in the Sao Paulo periphery support the hypothesis explored in this article – that the violence associated to narcotrafficking activity can only be understood by looking into the different ...
Daniel Veloso Hirata
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THE EXTORTION AND THE ROBBERY – THE COMPARISON OF CRIMES BASED ON ELEMENTS OF A PROHIBITED ACT INCLUDING JUDICIAL STATISTICS [PDF]
Probacja, 2018 The article analyses the controversial issue of the differences occurring between the crimes of extortion and robbery. It refers to legal doctrine and jurisprudence, indicating numerous doubts appearing in this matter.
Sandra Gąsior, Anita Klimas
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
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The Dynamics of Corruption with the Ratchet Effect [PDF]
This paper provides a simple model of corruption dynamics with the ratchet effect. As in Shleifer and Vishny [1993], we consider the sale of government property (entry permit) by government officials as the prototype of corruption activities.
Marcel Thum, Jay Pil Choi
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Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth
Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 535-560, March 2025.ABSTRACT In this paper, we study the relationship between organized crime, corruption, and economic growth on a data set from Italian regions for the period 1996–2013. Our working hypothesis is that organized crime can embezzle part of the public expenditure aimed at productive uses by threatening and bribing public officers. To assess the consequences
Tamara Fioroni +2 more
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