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, 2010 Vendettas occur in many real world settings where rivals compete for a prize, e.g., winning an election or a competitive promotion, by engaging in retaliatory aggressive behavior.
Bolle, Friedel +2 more
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor +3 more
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Sustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue S2, Page 336-350, March 2026.ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of constitutional power concentration on adaptation to climate change in 113 countries observed between 1995 and 2023 using the quantile regression method. The results reveal that the concentration of constitutional power hinders countries' adaptation to climate change through inequalities ...
Simplice A. Asongu, Cherif Abdramane
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 28-48, March 2026.The Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia once pursued eminence through warfare and vision quests. While vision quests have been retained, today – settled in villages – they seek eminence through economic success and political leadership. This article examines an apparent paradox: whilst envy suspicions pervade public life, they legitimize rather than level ...
Natalia Buitron, Grégory Deshoullière
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 85-103, March 2026.The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
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Criminality and Englishness in the aftermath: The racecourse wars of the 1920s [PDF]
, 2011 This article explores the extent to which post-war concerns about Englishness and fears about ‘the enemy within’ shaped understandings of the ‘racecourse wars’ of the 1920s.
Shore, H
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Using Celebrity to Advance Equality
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Alfred Archer
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Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century
History, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 66-89, January 2026.Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
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Punishment in Pre-Colonial Indigenous Societies in North America [chapter] [PDF]
, 1991 This paper was originally presented at the Conference on Punishment of the Jean Bodin Society for the Comparative History of Institutions, Barcelona, Spain, May 1987.
Conn, Stephen
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