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A Thin Blue Democratic Line? Organization, Interest, and Ethical Compatibility as Foundations of External Accountability Credibility

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the context of rising authoritarian and populist political movements, scholars have increasingly identified external agency as a bulwark for liberal values. However, its capacity to protect such values may be contingent upon its acceptance within the profession—specifically, upon attitudes we conceptualize as “accountability credibility ...
Sebastian Roché   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does the Threat of Killing Gays Deter Foreign Aid: The Case of Uganda's 2014 Anti‐Homosexuality Act

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Much attention has been drawn on Uganda in recent years due to the strengthening of its anti‐LGBTQ legislation and rhetoric. Our study explores the aid‐deterring effect of anti‐LGBTQ legislation in an experimental setting using the Synthetic Control Method.
Elissaios Papyrakis, Luca Tasciotti
wiley   +1 more source

Discursive Power, Civilian Agency, Wartime Duress, and Resilience: Letters to the Authorities in the Blockade of Leningrad

open access: yesThe Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How did World War II affect the nature and resilience of Soviet institutions and authority, especially in the extreme case of the Blockade of Leningrad? During the Blockade, Leningraders acted with great agency by engaging in the shadow trade of food and shadow talk for information and community in order to survive.
Jeffrey K. Hass, Nikita A. Lomagin
wiley   +1 more source

When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract We write and read ethnography in the wake of time passing: a fact that has long thrown up a host of epistemological and ethical issues for the doing of anthropology. In this essay I revisit this classic problem—the problem of the ethnographic present—asking what happens when we rethink the relationship between ‘the present’ and ‘presence’, the
Michael Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

When Is a Wrong Answer Right?: Mediating Indigenous Language Revitalization at Taiwan Indigenous Television

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 259-271, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article follows producers of Kai Language Heroes, the first Indigenous language game show in the world, as they adapted the genre for language revitalization. Kai Language Heroes is one of many original programs at Taiwan Indigenous Television (TITV), a public broadcaster that serves Taiwan's diverse Austronesian‐speaking peoples. I argue
Eliana Ritts
wiley   +1 more source

State strategy and transition in South Africa: Historical and contemporary perspectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 8 August 1988Much of the contemporary debate on the transition from an apartheid to an apartheid free South Africa has primarily focussed on the question of class alliances and the possibility of ...
Sarakinsky, Ivor
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Geopower, Geos and the Colonisation of Palestine

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth ...
Mark Griffiths
wiley   +1 more source

War and economics: The control of material resources in the lower Yangzi and Shanghai area between 1937 and 1945 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This paper was prepared in 2000. I updated it for the AAS conference in 2002. All comments and suggestions welcome. It will be submitted to an academic journal.
Henriot, Christian
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The Political Economy of the Yugoslav Revolution [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
Industrialisation, agrarian structures, nationalism, dependency and the role of the state have all been important themes in development studies during the post-war period. The focus has, of course, been mainly on peripheral capitalist economies in Africa,
Wright, P. (Phil)
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The logic of the violence in the civil war: the armed conflict in Colombia [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the Logic of Violence in the Civil War. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author's scientific output.
Estrada, Fernando
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