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Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To be resilient, governments must quickly adapt their policies and working methods to new and uncertain situations. This article examines whether risk disclosure, as part of the anticipatory capacities of these organizations, can help identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.
Ekaterina Svetlova +2 more
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Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara
The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.Short Abstract This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoing anti‐colonial war, as our case study and explore how Saharawi poets engage foreign publics in their national struggle to become citizens ...
Joanna Allan, Moiti Mohamed Azrouk
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History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The problem of historical realism has gained some new momentum recently, with a fresh challenge to what is taken to be an anti‐realist hegemony in the theory and philosophy of history. Unfortunately, this has also provided the opportunity for the reheating of old polemics and lazy scholarship that characterized the 1990s reaction to ...
João Ohara
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The media and freedom of expression in the Arab World [PDF]
Online media, global TV and social networks played a significant role in the Arab Spring and will be important factors in determining its future direction, argues this report.
Jean-Paul Marthoz
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State Integration and Violence at the Margins: The Logic of Police Raids in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates police raids in Rio de Janeiro's favelas through a property rights framework, exploring their organisational structure, motivations and implications. Using data from police reports, academic studies, NGOs and news sources, it examines why and how the state intervenes in these contested spaces.
Joseph Bouchard
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'“The result can scarcely fail to amuse even the most gloomy of war pessimists”: The Strand Magazine and the First World War' [PDF]
, 2019 Vuohelainen, M.
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Racialized Labour in the Colonial Food Regime: The Whitening of England's Farmworkers
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The crystallization of a colonial food regime in the 1870s centred around Britain is key to historical accounts of agrarian political economy. Yet such accounts have neglected the role of the agrarian proletariat in shaping this regime from below and its basis in racialized hierarchy.
Ben Richardson
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The Political Economy of Attention: Media Salience, Voter Cognition, and Electoral Accountability
Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We review conceptual and empirical contributions to the political economy of attention, with a focus on how attention allocation shapes political behavior and electoral accountability. The review distinguishes between endogenous (goal‐directed) and exogenous (stimulus‐driven) attention and examines how these concepts are incorporated into ...
Patrick Balles +2 more
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