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Broke Autocrats, Broken Elections: Trade Shocks and Electoral Fraud in Autocracies

Economics &Politics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We argue that when terms‐of‐trade (ToT) shocks reduce resource rents, autocrats lose the fiscal capacity to sustain loyalty through patronage and increasingly rely on electoral manipulation as a survival strategy. We present a simple model in which rents finance patronage in normal times, while adverse shocks reduce the effectiveness of ...
Antonis Adam, Sofia Tsarsitalidou
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Overpowered: Control and Contingence in Haiti

Latin American Research Review, 2017
This essay reviews the following works: Contrary Destinies: A Century of America’s Occupation, Deoccupation, and Reoccupation of Haiti. By Léon Pamphile. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2015. Pp. xviii + 203. ISBN: 9780813061023.
Matthew J. Smith
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Beyond Negated Identity: Mediating the World History Classroom through Adorno's Negative Dialectics

Educational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article centers on Adorno's negative dialectics to account for experiences of alienation and marginalization within the world history classroom. It begins with the problem of how marginalization occurs in high school world history classrooms with predominantly Black and Latinx students.
Tadashi Dozono
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Las voces de Baha‐blantes: An analysis of the language learning investment of intermediate students of Spanish at the tertiary level

Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the language learning investment of five intermediate learners of Spanish at a tertiary institution in The Bahamas. It draws on participants’ language learning journeys to consider how their previous experiences and access to language learning opportunities contributed to their investment.
Valentino Rahming
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The Haiti Cholera Claims: from Symbolic to Material Reparations

AJIL Unbound
In this essay, we will use the Haiti Cholera case study to explore how the victims and the socioeconomic turns are increasingly pivotal in the field of reparations as part of transitional justice.
Rosa Freedman, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert
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Mapping Escolar (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum) in Motion: Oceanographic Forces Shaping Its Habitat in the Southwestern South Atlantic, With Insights From Fishers' Perceptions

Fisheries Oceanography, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lepidocybium flavobrunneum [Smith, 1843], commonly known as escolar, is a large pelagic species, important for global and local fisheries, particularly in the southwestern South Atlantic Ocean (SWAO), where it constitutes a significant portion of the catch.
Lucas Rodrigues, Maria Grazia Pennino, Paul Gerhard Kinas, David Conesa, Alba Fuster‐Alonso, Andrés Domingo, Rodrigo Forselledo, Federico Mas, Bruno Mourato, Rodrigo Sant'Ana, Vinni Santos Thykjaer, Raquel Virginia Marquez Marquez, Abner Ventura Alves, Mariano Cabanillas‐Torpoco, Rafael Schroeder, Luis Gustavo Cardoso   +15 more
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Policy of Criminal System Formulation Oriented to Rape Crime Victims

Sociological Jurisprudence Journal, 2018
Criminal act of rape has received considerable attention among the public nowadays. The care and protection of the interests of the victims of the rape crime either through criminal justice process or certain social care facilities is an absolute part ...
Ahmad Syaufi, Diana Haiti
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Fine‐scale genetic structure in co‐operatively breeding Palmchats (Dulus dominicus) suggests mixed kinship in compound nests

Ibis, EarlyView.
Fine‐scale genetic structure in animal populations can create opportunities for both kin‐directed co‐operation and kin competition. Knowledge of kinship is therefore key to understanding the selective pressures shaping sociality as well as the effects of social behaviour on local genetic structure.
Joshua B. LaPergola, Gavin M. Leighton, Christina Riehl   +2 more
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Embarrassing Anecdotes and Recovery: Language Attitudes and the Consequences of Haiti's Language Policy

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Only 5% of the Haitian population is fully bilingual in French and Kreyòl. On the contrary, 95% of the population is monolingual in the native language, Kreyòl. The purpose of this research is to examine the attitudes of Haitian high school students toward Kreyòl and French, particularly as official languages, and investigate the effects of ...
Gerdine Michel Ulysse
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Neuroticism Is Linked With Liberal Ideology in Young, but not Old, People in the United States

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Polarization in the United States is partly due to a remarkable ideological divide between generations. Although substantial research has investigated why old people have become more conservative, less is known about why young people have become more liberal. The article investigates this by probing the role of neuroticism.
Francesco Rigoli
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