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INCIDENTAL PROTECTION: AN EXAMINATION OF THE MORRILL TARIFF
Essays in Economic and Business History, 2001 Historians refer to the Morrill Tariff as the first statement of the nascent Republican party’s protectionist agenda, yet an analysis of the measure reveals that this enduring icon of historiography needs modification. Implemented as a direct response to
Jane Flaherty
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Measuring Party Institutionalization in Developing Countries: A New Research Instrument Applied to 28 African Political Parties [PDF]
The institutionalization of political parties is said to be important for democratic development, but its measurement has remained a neglected area of research.
Alexander Stroh, Matthias Basedau
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Products of their Past? Cleavages and Intra-Party Dissent Over European Integration. IHS Political Science Series Paper No. 118. February 2009 [PDF]
, 2008 What explains contemporary intra-party dissent on EU issues? This article develops a cleavage theory model of internal party dissent over European integration. Drawing on Lipset and Rokkan’s classic model of political cleavages and on its applications to
Edwards, Erica E.
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, 2016 Africa’s current democratic outlook is a relic of the crowning vestige bequeathed by the colonial metropolis as a sign of the African’s attainment of political freedom.
Bernard Matolino, Matolino, Bernard
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Power, (De)Politicisation and Polycentric Governance: Evidence From UK Local Climate Policy
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article extends (de)politicisation theory to elucidate power dynamics in polycentric governance. It develops an original analytical framework to empirically investigate how governmental, societal and discursive (de)politicisation processes emerge within and across decision‐making centres. The framework focuses on dimensions of technocracy,
Timea Nochta +2 more
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Studia Maritima, 2014 As far as the Polish People’s Republic (PRL) and the communist years are concerned, support from professional organizations, society members, authorities and Polish emigration in Sweden to the Independent Self-Governing Trade Union (NSZZ) Solidarity (“
Bolesław Hajduk
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The international conservation and natural resources communities have increasingly embraced the principle of community participation. This rhetoric around participation has gained power and influence in setting countries' agendas for natural resources governance, largely without a sound understanding of public opinion on the issues.
Rachel S. Friedman +3 more
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Caught in the Headlights: Revising the Road Kill Hypothesis of Antebellum Illinois Bank Failures
Essays in Economic and Business History, 2017 Illinois had a dismal free banking experience, with over 80% of its free banks failing by the start of the Civil War. Researchers agree that a dramatic change in bond prices was the catalyst, and some have shown that the riskiest banks, ex ante, were the
Scott Clayman +2 more
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F1000ResearchBackground The August Revolution of 1945 established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, but the nascent government immediately faced immense challenges from external forces like French colonialists and Chiang Kai-shek’s army, alongside internal ...
Quoc Dung Mai
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Ethnic Coalitions of Convenience and Commitment: Political Parties and Party Systems in Kenya [PDF]
This paper analyzes the role of ethnicity in shaping the character of Kenya’s political parties and its party system since 1992. Drawing on a constructivist conception of ethnicity, it uses a framework of comparison derived from Donald Horowitz and ...
Sebastian Elischer
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