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American Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 71, Issue 3-4, Page 423-436, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Minority communities have borne a disproportionate burden of adverse health outcomes during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Notwithstanding, there is a lack of empirical evidence regarding efforts to reduce health inequalities through community organizing.
Hani Nouman
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Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 246-257, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Are populist citizens a threat to democracy? Some philosophers view populism and democracy as irreconcilable conceptions of governing. Another line of thought describes populism as useful democratic corrective. Drawing on nationally representative surveys from four European countries, this study investigates how European populist citizens ...
Alexander Wuttke +2 more
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Routine failure in Macedonia: a critique of the Global Financial Crisis from the periphery
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue S1, Page 79-94, April 2023., 2023 Abstract In most Western analyses, the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) constituted a systemic failure that spread across the entire capitalist system from the United States. That was not, however, the discourse that circulated in (and about) Macedonia – a peripheral country that had been mired in economic disasters since its transition from socialism ...
Fabio Mattioli
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The Making(s) of an Alternative Urban Policy: What Happens When Free Fares Come to Town?
Antipode, Volume 55, Issue 1, Page 180-199, January 2023., 2023 Abstract While many urban policies and practices claim to offer an “alternative” to the “mainstream” of urban entrepreneurialism, they remain under‐theorised and prone to alignment with entrepreneurial agendas. In this paper I examine fare‐free public transport (FFPT) as a salient example of an alternative urban policy.
Wojciech Kębłowski
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Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 1120-1149, Summer 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT This study examines the processes by which English linguistic capital is legitimized as integral to professional accountants' distinction, prestige, and status in Jordan. Drawing on 27 interviews, the study reveals the dynamic and mutual interdependency of social hierarchies and Jordanian accountants' agency in embedding the English language ...
Dina Aburous, Rania Kamla
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Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 81-104, March 2022., 2022 Abstract This article studies the spatial dimension of the social selection of local elected officials that takes shape through the geographical selectivity of the elected officials’ places of residence. Based on data on the places of residence of local elected officials in Zurich and Lausanne (1980‐2016), we show that the residential dispersion of ...
Roberto Di Capua
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 780-797, December 2021., 2021 Abstract This article explains the recent emergence of Orthodox Christianity in a majoritarian Evangelical Protestant community in southern Ethiopia. Examining conversion motives and forms of religious engagement, I show that Orthodoxy is attractive to erstwhile followers of traditional practice because it affords them the solution to a value conflict.
Julian Sommerschuh
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Upland pioneers: an introduction
Social Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 635-650, August 2021., 2021 Drawing on various ethnographic case studies from upland Southeast Asia, this special issue explores uplanders’ pioneering agency and challenges the stereotype of the remote and marginal uplander. We consider upland areas as dynamic sites of future‐making and change – initiated by pioneering individuals or local elites who seek out and explore ...
Rosalie Stolz, Oliver Tappe
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Beyond Groups? Consociational Culture and the Representation of Cross‐Segmental Interests
Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.Abstract In deeply divided societies, consociational power‐sharing ensures representation for ethnonational groups but raises questions about cross‐segmental interests. This paper explores “consociational culture,” arguing that consociational systems create a form of political culture which incentivises the use of group‐based categories and identities ...
Patrizia John
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En comptes de «més» democràcia, una democràcia «millor»? [PDF]
, 2013 A la llum de l'augment de reivindicacions d’una representació política més responsable amb el rerefons fons del que es percep com una crisi major de la democràcia representativa, aquest article examina les percepcions dels ciutadans sobre la democràcia ...
Toplak, Cirila
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