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US Influence in Post‐Assad Syria and the Limits of Turkey's Leverage
Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Winter 2026.Abstract In early 2026, the post‐Assad government in Damascus weakened the Kurdish‐led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and began integrating the group through phased incorporation and gradual reassertion of state authority. While this advanced some Turkish objectives, it demonstrated the limits of Ankara's influence: Kurdish fighters were incorporated ...
Barış Çağlar
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A Federation of Federations: Secure Cloud Federations meet European Identity Federations
International Journal for Information Security Research, 2018 Thomas Zefferer +2 more
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Fiscal federalism and government performance in Nigeria
, 2016 An underlying assumption of fiscal federalism is that it should create incentives for both the central and constituent governments to efficiently and effectively deliver services to their citizens.
Adetula, Victor,
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Rural Sociology, Volume 91, Issue 4, December 2026.ABSTRACT Relatively little attention has been given to rural local governments' social safety net and public service provisions. We develop a framework to explain how the character of communities influence social and other public services provided by local governments and why rural–urban differences may exist.
Paige Kelly, Linda M. Lobao
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There Is Always a Bigger Fish. Determinants of Power Perceptions in Swiss Biodiversity Policy
Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.ABSTRACT The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) views power as crucial in policy processes, but the nature of coalition power, its determinants, and how to empirically measure it remain understudied. In this article, we use a mixed method approach and social network analysis to explore power relationships in the biodiversity policy subsystem in ...
Alix d'Agostino +2 more
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Federalism, Fertility and Growth [PDF]
This paper analyses the effect of federalism on fertility and growth. In a model with human capital accumulation and endogenous fertility, two regimes of education finance are compared: central and local education. Using numerical simulation, I find that
Rainald Borck
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Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.ABSTRACT The intersection of immigration and welfare has taken a central stage in the politics of social policy and garnered increasing scholarly attention in welfare politics research. While prior research has examined how immigration affects welfare support and welfare generosity in the US, less is known about the determinants of immigrant‐related ...
Ping Xu, Ling Zhu, Sebastian Ege
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From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa
Journal of International Development, Volume 38, Issue 7, Page 1124-1144, October 2026.ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
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The Role of Federalism in Developing the US during Nineteenth-century Globalization [PDF]
federalism, globalization, development, United ...
Rauchway, Eric
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Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 4, Page 1269-1284, October 2026.Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
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