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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
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Federalism and economic development in India: An assessment [PDF]

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This paper examines India’s federal system in the context of prospects for India’s future economic growth and development. After a brief review of India’s recent policy reforms and economic development outcomes, and of the country’s federal institutions,
Srinivasan, T.N., Singh, Nirvikar
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The “Communal College:” Cross‐Ethnic Voting Rules and Census Requirements for Dyadic Consociational Democracies

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Electoral systems in deeply divided societies are pivotal for peace and stability among ethno‐national groups. Consociationalism and centripetalism are the most widespread approaches from which derive the major incentives for electoral systems in deeply divided, dyadic societies.
Ivan Pepić
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The Limits of Regionalism in Achieving Effective Spatial Outcomes

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract Institutional quality matters and decentralisation and regionalisation should be in service of this overall aim. This paper, in putting forward this simple proposition, lays out evidence on regionalisation, decentralisation and institutions. Despite an assumption that the establishment of regional bodies can solve a series of problems – such ...
Pedro Marques, David Waite
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El federalismo en la historiografía política colombiana (1853-1886)

open access: yesHistoria Crítica, 2011
Between 1853 and 1885, the governing principle of federalism was practically unquestioned by Colom­bian elites. Despite the abundant historiography on the period, what federalism meant to different actors, and the politics of its institutionalization ...
Edwin Cruz Rodríguez
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The dynamics of reform of India’s federal system [PDF]

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Föderalismus, Reform, Indien, Federalism ...
Nirvikar Singh
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Resisting language shift: Scaling and rescaling Circassian and Russian across urban and rural Adygea

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article employs scalar analysis to explore the language practices of Circassians in Adygea, a republic in Russia situated on the traditional lands of the Indigenous Circassian people. Paying attention to language ideological assemblages in urban and rural areas, I examine how Circassians navigate and attempt to reconfigure linguistic ...
Valeriya Minakova
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Federalism Assignment Memo

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This allocates responsibilities for the topics covered in the exchange of messages between Hamoudi and McCormack regarding "Federalism Assignment." All of that exchange should be consulted for amplification of the topics - this just sets out specific ...
McCormack, Wayne
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Assigning (un)deservingness: How institutional gatekeeping stratifies older Chinese immigrants’ service access through competing deservingness frames

open access: yesJournal of Social Issues, Volume 82, Issue 4, December 2026.
Abstract Older Asian Americans are the fastest‐growing segment of the US aging population, with a majority of them being foreign‐born and underserved by formal services. Existing scholarship largely draws on the health behavior model and the immigrant assimilation literature to explain this underutilization, treating service access as an individual ...
Xuemei Cao
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Towards decentralized fiscal constitutions

open access: yesEconómica, 1998
The theory of fscal federalism makes a strong case for decentralizing government functions in order to enhance efficiency in allocating public goods vvhere preferences differ among regions.
Paul Bernd Spahn
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