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Sortition, Parties and Political Careerism
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract One reason for growing distrust of politicians, parties, and governments is the increase in ‘careerism’: politicians who have never worked outside politics and seem to work inside politics for themselves as much as for the common good. Sortition—choosing representatives by lottery—is one solution.
Keith Dowding +2 more
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ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORGANIZED CRIME IN LATIN AMERICA (1916-2013)
Política y Estrategia, 2017 The organized crime manifests in different forms and varies according to the characteristics present in each of the Latin American societies that allowed its emergence.
MIGUEL ORTIZ SARKIS
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Frank Tannenbaum and the Mexican Revolution
International Labor and Working-Class History, 2010 AbstractThis article examines Frank Tannenbaum's engagement with Mexico in the crucial years following the Revolution of 1910–1920 and his first visit to the country in 1922. Invited—and feted—by the government and its powerful labor allies, Tannenbaum soon expanded his initial interest in organized labor and produced a stream of work dealing with ...
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Against interpretive exclusivism* Contre l'exclusivisme interprétatif
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Interpretive exclusivism is the dogma that we can only understand cultural systems by interpreting them, thereby ruling out causal explanations of cultural phenomena using scientific methods, for example based on measurement, comparison, and experiment.
Harvey Whitehouse
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Campobello’s Cartuchos and Cisneros’s Molotovs: Transborder Revolutionary Feminist Narratives
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2015 Though “revolutionary” acts and attitudes were frequently claimed in various civil rights–era movements in the US, this article considers the specific meaning of the term in a Mexican-Chicano context through a simultaneous examination of Sandra Cisneros ...
Geneva M. Gano
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Lobbying in the Shadows: A Comparative Analysis of Government Lobbyist Registers
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Our research provides a starting point to benchmark government transparency measures to improve the quality and accessibility of information about lobbying. Policymakers and regulators can use our framework to develop or strengthen their own lobbying registers.
JENNIFER LACY‐NICHOLS +3 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
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Entre la entelequia y el mito: la traición de la Revolución Mexicana y de su reforma agraria
Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2012 Two main demands made during the 1910 Mexican revolution were the return of lands stolen from the Indians and farmers, as well as a comprehensive land reform.
Ernesto Mächler Tobar
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Inter-American Memories: Frances Toor, Alma Reed and the Mexican Cultural Renaissance
Les Cahiers de Framespa, 2017 This article discusses the lives and cultural projects of Frances Toor and Alma Reed, two US women who traveled to Mexico shortly after the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920).
Michael K. Schuessler
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Agri-silvicultures of Mexican Arid America. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2023 Andablo-Reyes ADC +6 more
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