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Greed and grievance: the role of economic agendas in the conflict in Solomon Islands [PDF]
, 2015 This article investigates the applicability of the influential economics of civil war literature to the case of the conflict which occurred in Solomon Islands between 1998 and 2003.
Allen, Matthew
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Covert repertoires: ecotage in the UK [PDF]
, 2004 Ecological sabotage (ecotage) has been a feature of the more radical parts of the environmental movement in the Western world for several decades. While it may be perceived as being the preserve of underground cells of 'eco-terrorists', in the UK those ...
Doherty, BJA, Plows, A, Wall, D
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Deforestation and its social impacts are an enduring challenge in agrarian frontiers, especially in the tropics. Fueled by global demand for commodities, this process is mediated by ideas, concepts, meanings, and policies that uphold socioenvironmental degradation. A key and understudied—arena in which this mediation occurs is the sub‐national
Gabriela Russo Lopes, Fabio de Castro
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A New Labor Movement in the Shell of the Old? [PDF]
, 1996 [Excerpt] A lot has changed since the formation of the AFL-CIO 40 years ago. A regulated national economy has been transformed into a global economy — one in which American workers can be put into competition with others anywhere in the world ...
Brecher, Jeremy, Costello, Tim
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study employs a scalar politics framework to unpack how participatory rhetoric operates statecraft in a post‐authoritarian context, thereby illuminating hybrid‐regime behavior along a continuum of environmental governance. An examination of the environmental governance of an ecotourism project in South Korea is performed using ...
Souyeon Nam
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Models of Party Democracy : Patterns of Party Regulation in Post-War European Constitutions [PDF]
, 2012 This article investigates the ways in which political parties are codified in modern democratic constitutions, providing a unique cross-sectional and longitudinal overview of the patterns of party constitutionalization in post-war Europe.
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On militant democracy’s institutional conservatism
Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2023 This article critically reconstructs militant democracy’s ‘institutional conservatism’, a theoretical preference for institutions that restrain transformation. It offers two arguments, one historical and one normative. Firstly, it traces a historical development from a substantive to a procedural version of institutional conservatism from the ...
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Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how municipal legislators frame climate mitigation and how these framings shift responsibility, narrow the perceived scope of municipal authority, and reduce the urgency or feasibility of local action. We analyzed 31 interviews with city councilors serving on Permanent Environmental Committees across municipalities in ...
Tainá Yumi Patriani
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Learning the Fighting Game: Black Americans and the First World War
, 2015 The experience of African American veterans of the First World War is most often cast through the bloody lens of the Red Summer of 1919, when racial violence and lynchings reached record highs across the nation as black veterans returned from the global ...
Johnson, S. Marianne
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Configuraciones militantes en Neuquén durante los años ‘80: DDHH, Iglesia y comunidad chilena
Anuario de la Escuela de Historia Virtual, 2015 The following work is an approach to the way militancy and social struggles are intertwined in Neuquén (Argentina) during the ‘80s. Three social actors were inquired by means of interviews and unpublished documents: Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo ...
Fernando Aiziczon
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