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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.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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Evaluating fiscal equalization in Indonesia [PDF]
This paper presents a methodology to evaluate fiscal decentralization focusing on the potential mis-targeting of intergovernmental fiscal equalization transfers.
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Aspects of Radical Gay Liberation Theory in West Germany's Tuntenstreit, 1973–1975
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines in depth the theoretical positions of the Tuntenstreit – a major theoretical dispute within the radical West German gay liberation movement in the 1970s. By working through archival material as well as the dispute's fundamental texts, it renders visible its often‐neglected underlying theoretical motifs and, consequently ...
Hauke Branding
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Decentralized education in Somalia: lessons from East African models
Cogent EducationThis study analyzes decentralized education reforms in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania and derives actionable lessons for Somalia’s evolving federal system.
Mohamed Yusuf Adan, Said Abubakar Ahmed
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Yardstick competition, fiscal disparities, and equalization
Economics Letters, 2012 The theory of political yardstick competition states that a comparison of public service levels and tax rates with those in nearby jurisdictions can provide voters with a useful instrument to assess politicians' performance. However, we argue that fiscal disparities bias this yardstick, and that this bias may be removed through fiscal equalization. (C)
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Analisis Kinerja Keuangan Pemerintah Provinsi Jambi dan Pengaruhnya terhadap Pertumbuhan Ekonomi
Jurnal Perspektif Pembiayaan dan Pembangunan Daerah, 2017 The purpose of this research is to analise government’s financial performance of Jambi Province. This research is using multiple linear regression to calculate and to see the effect of direct and indirect expenditure variable to the economic growth. This
Mohar Mondes
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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A Practitioner’s Guide to Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers
Revista de Economía y Estadística, 2006 Intergovernmental fiscal transfers are a dominant feature of sub-national finance in most countries. They are used to ensure that revenues roughly match the expenditure needs of various orders (levels) of sub-national governments.
Anwar Shah
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of “climate crisis” (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as “Acts of God”
Stephen J. Collier
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