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An impossible friendship: differences and similarities between fascist Italy’s and Kemalist Turkey’s foreign policies [PDF]
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2015 Despite a period of “warmth” and some similarities between the two regimes, fascist Italy and Kemalist Turkey proved to be very different in their approach to international relations. Italy showed a very aggressive and revisionist foreign policy, whereas
Nicola Degli Esposti
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Lithuanian unpublished interwar topographical maps
Geodesy and Cartography, 2012 A number of publications about Lithuanian interwar topographical mapping present the same piece of information that until the beginning of the World War II only the following maps were published: 92 M 1:25 000 and 44 M 1:100 000. The article analyses the
Romualdas Girkus +1 more
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Why and when do cities vote for the left? The emergence of the urban–rural divide in the United States in the 1930s is inconsistent with canonical theories of cleavages. This paper introduces an explanation: agglomeration effects. The provision of government services is more efficient in urban environments because of nonrivalries, economies of
Theo Serlin
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Window-dressing in German interwar balance sheets [PDF]
German accounting rules value assets and liabilities asymmetrically and thus lead to grossly distorted balance sheets. In the interwar debate on a reform of disclosure regulation, financial experts considered the (undisclosed) tax balance sheet, which ...
Mark Spoerer
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Is support for authoritarian rule contagious? Evidence from field and survey experiments
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract The increasing popularity of strongman rule in democratic societies underscores the need to explore how authoritarian regime preferences might spread socially. We assess the role of social influence on support for leaders with authoritarian inclinations through preregistered field and survey experiments in the Norwegian Armed Forces. The field
Sirianne Dahlum +4 more
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Effective exchange rates of the Bulgarian Lev 1879-1939 [PDF]
The paper constructs the first series of nominal and real effective exchange rates of the Bulgarian Lev from its establishment in 1879 until 1939. The dynamics of both indicators during the Classical Gold Standard fits the general picture of exchange ...
Martin Ivanov +2 more
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Biennial Art Exhibitions in Rijeka in 1925 and 1927
Peristil, 2019 The paper focuses on two of the many exhibiting activities in Rijeka during the Italian rule in the interwar period, interpreted in the context of current regional, Italian state and wider European political circumstances.
Branko Metzger-Šober
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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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Agricultural Cooperative Organizations in Greece Throughout the 20th Century: A Critical Overview [PDF]
The first centenary (1900-2000) of the establishment of agricultural cooperatives in the Greek countryside is an appropriate occasion for offering a critical retrospective of their operations during the 20th century.
Patronis, Vassilis +1 more
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Revista Română pentru Studii Baltice şi Nordice, 2010 After a long period of events, our nations restarted to have diplomatic relations, in the context of a newly declared independent Lithuania (1918). Rela-tions were not simple and transparent and the dialogue remained rather occa-sional.
Vladimir Jarmolenko
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