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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study traces how gambling in Australia changed from a simple form of leisure, enjoyed by all social classes in colonial times, to a billion‐dollar industry driven by political and economic imperatives. Using a case study, it links vertical fiscal imbalance (VFI), caused by changes to the state‐federal taxation structure, to the ...
Barbara Kinder, Michael B. Charles
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What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This article attempts to clarify the meaning of (de)politicization. Politicization sometimes refers to the inappropriate intrusion of partisan loyalties in nonpolitical social domains (affective politicization). Politicization can also constitute an ideal of civic agency and energy (contestatory politicization).
Dimitrios Halikias
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Toward a Politics of (In)Fertility: Reproductive Debility in Africa
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa has some of the highest estimated rates of infertility or involuntary childlessness in the world, leading epidemiologists to refer to parts of the region as the “infertility belt.” The medicalization of infertility and the situating of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) as the treatment for infertility have siphoned ...
Tessa Moll
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Beyond the Dichotomy of Success and Failure: Making Activism Meaningful in South Korea and France
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT First deployed in the 1970s, prefiguration has recently gained traction among ethnographers of political action as a descriptor for activist practices that foreground participatory democracy, horizontality, and direct action, as seen in social movements like Occupy Wall Street. Notably, ethnographers have come to understand these prefigurative‐
Guilherme Fians, Sera Yeong Seo Park
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of sustained demographic contraction across the Asia‐Pacific, the developmental state (DS) paradigm, long premised on growth, faces profound challenges. While existing research on shrinking regions focuses on urban planning, little attention has been paid to how the state restructures its spatial power under contraction ...
Li Mingfeng
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Fiscal austerity and municipal health spending: an interrupted time series study. [PDF]
Rev Saude PublicaMaia LR, Campos MR, Castanheira D.
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British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite growing interest in union renewal, worker voice and new forms of labour organisation, industrial relations scholarship has paid limited attention to assemblies as an organisational form in their own right. This article argues that assemblies constitute a historically recurring democratic repertoire through which workers negotiate the ...
Martí López‐Andreu
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Effect of Austerity Measures on Infant Mortality: Evidence From Greece. [PDF]
Health EconKolesar RJ, Spruk R.
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Relational Wellbeing Amongst Care‐Experienced Young People in Transition in the Context of Covid 19
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Care‐experienced young people typically negotiate the transition to adulthood at a younger age than their peers in the general population and with less reliable access to support. Concerns have been raised that Covid 19 exacerbated the challenges they faced and widened the ‘care‐gap’.
Emily R. Munro, Seana Friel, Amy Lynch
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When austerity becomes a public health threat: the case of Ecuador. [PDF]
Front Public HealthOrtiz-Prado E +2 more
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