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Valuing and devaluing: Struggles over social payments, dignity, and sneakers
Economic Anthropology, Volume 10, Issue 2, Page 233-245, June 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article examines the valuation struggles around Argentina's Asignación Universal por Hijo para Protección Social (AUH), a large conditional cash transfer (CCT) program introduced in 2009. Thinking about value as a verb invites us to move away from reified notions and to consider the work differently positioned social actors do to value ...
Lindsay DuBois
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European Policy Analysis, Volume 8, Issue 3, Page 327-344, Summer 2022., 2022 Abstract The Swedish response to the pandemic at the national level has attracted considerable international attention, but little focus has been placed on the way municipalities dealt with the crisis. Using Hay's dimensions of politicization, namely the capacity for human agency, deliberation in the public domain, and social context, we analyze the ...
Jörgen Sparf +4 more
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 1-2, Page 37-56, June 2022., 2022 Resumen La reventa de gasolina brasilera en la frontera Venezuela–Brasil es un acontecimiento emergente que facilita el entendimiento sociopolítico nuevo de las estrategias de sobrevivencia locales más allá de la resiliencia social e informalidad en tiempos de crisis.
Morelia Morillo Ramos, Eva van Roekel
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HUMBOLDT IN VENEZUELA AND CUBA: THE ‘SECOND SLAVERY’
German Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 311-325, July 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT The reception of Humboldt's work now spans more than 200 years. It began with the publication of the texts that form his Opus Americanum (1808–31). Among these works, it was in the Political Essay on Cuba, where a chapter was devoted to the demography of the slave trade from Africa to Cuba, that became a cornerstone of the global historical ...
Michael Zeuske
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Politics &Policy, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 390-413, April 2021., 2021 Abstract This article shows that political conflicts are expressed in different arenas and between different actors depending on the degree of horizontal specialization in a political system. In political organizations with a low degree of horizontal specialization, more issues are depoliticized and the discretion of the administration increases.
Louise Skoog
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Policy Entrepreneurs in Public Administration: A Social Network Analysis
Politics &Policy, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 414-445, April 2021., 2021 This article examines the role of policy entrepreneurs in promoting change in flood risk mitigation at the local level in Sweden through a comparative study of two Swedish municipalities with different approaches to flood risk governance; as a technical issue or a social issue.
Evangelia Petridou +2 more
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The soft channels of policy diffusion: Insights from local climate change adaptation policy
Policy Studies Journal, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 881-906, November 2024.Abstract Diffusion has become both an important concept for studying policy spread and a popular governance approach, particularly where direct coercion is unavailable or undesirable. However, the prevailing mechanism‐centered concept is difficult to measure and poorly captures the governance potential of policy diffusion. To address these issues, this
Kai Schulze
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Spatial patterns associated with the distribution of immature stages of Aedes aegypti in three dengue high-risk municipalities of Southwestern Colombia. [PDF]
GigaByte, 2023 Sánchez Gutierrez C +7 more
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[Gaps in primary mental health care in Chocó, Colombia: barriers and challengesLacunas na atenção primária à saúde mental em Chocó, Colômbia: barreiras e desafios]. [PDF]
Rev Panam Salud Publica, 2023 Agudelo-Hernández F +5 more
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[The health system in Colombia 1945-2020: between reality and the social imaginary]. [PDF]
Rev Salud Publica (Bogota), 2023 Morales-Sánchez LG.
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