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Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
wiley   +1 more source

Why Does Individualism Affect Economic Development: Is It Values, Policies, or Institutions?

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A substantial body of literature highlights the positive roles of individualism and economic freedom in fostering prosperity, and recent work links the two. This paper disentangles their contributions to economic development. In cross‐country data, we show that both are independently associated with per capita income, even after extensive ...
Lewis S. Davis, Claudia Williamson Kramer   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

General Universities Act 1954: The first post-war law on higher education in Yugoslavia and its long-term effects [PDF]

Pravni Zapisi
After the break with the USSR, the Yugoslav communists began to build a different model of socialism, in which higher education was given a certain autonomy, while the Party preserved its monopoly of power.
Popović Dejan, Mirković Zoran S.
doaj   +1 more source

Guanxi and Wasta: 20 Years of Evolution and Future Directions for Informal Network Research

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides an examination of the evolution of networking in China and the Arab world over two decades and provides an update to, and new insights arising from, an article called Guanxi and Wasta; A Comparison, published in Thunderbird International Business Review in 2006.
Kate Hutchings, David Weir, Sa'ad Ali, Sven Horak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

History of Chinese Law: Endogenous Innovation and Reception

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета. Серия: гуманитарные и общественные науки
The article traces the evolution of the legal system in China from ancient times to the present, with a focus on the effect of innovations and borrowings on traditional norms. The author identified the transformation patterns to determine those cultural,
Kuryshev Evgeniy
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Individualism Without Individuality: Friedrich Hayek and the Neoliberal Citizen

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Critics of neoliberalism increasingly examine its corrosive effects on democracy. Scholars often turn to Friedrich Hayek's political theory, arguing that it produces citizens who passively conform to spontaneous social orders. Yet insufficient attention has been paid to the normative conception of the human individual underlying his ...
Tal Tzur
wiley   +1 more source

RUSSIAN LABOR LAW IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORICAL LESSONS

BRICS Law Journal, 2017
The revolution that took place in Russia on 25 October (or, according to the new style, on 7  November) 1917 is believed to have been the most important political event of the 20th century  and to have had a great influence on all aspects of life both ...
NELLI DIVEEVA, EVGENIY KHOKHLOV, MARINA FILIPPOVA   +2 more
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The Forthcoming General Election in the Republic of Ireland: Winds of (Left‐Wing) Change or Plus Ça Change?

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 180-188, January/March 2025.
Abstract The forthcoming general election will be the most consequential electoral contest for the Republic of Ireland in a century. The polity is situated in truly novel territory with the potential for an historic first: the incoming of a Sinn Féin‐led, left‐wing government.
Chris Ó Rálaigh
wiley   +1 more source

THE MOST URGENT PROBLEM FOR POST-SOVIET THEORETICAL LEGAL SCIENCE

Правовое государство: теория и практика
Post-Soviet theoretical legal science has still not clearly defined the nature and character of the future statehood of our country. The social sciences make numerous proposals in this regard, ranging from a new socialism to a society without statehood ...
RAYANOV Fanis Mansurovich
doaj   +1 more source

From Twentieth Century Socialism to Twenty-First Century Socialism: Experiences of Venezuela’s Bolivarianism 1998-2013 [PDF]

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into stark relief the pitfalls of global capitalism as disparities between classes increase and the cycle of crisis continues jeopardizing human well-being across the globe.
Badger, Alexandrea
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