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The political consequences of Africa's mobile revolution
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract What are the political consequences of rising domestic connectivity? I study this question in Sub‐Saharan Africa, asking how mobile technology shapes public opinion in geographically isolated communities. For remote rural populations, mobile devices increase contact with physically distant social networks, through regular phone calls with ...
Alex Yeandle
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The closure of Michael Colliery in 1967 and the politics of deindustrialization in Scotland [PDF]
, 2015 Michael Colliery in east Fife was the largest National Coal Board (NCB) unit in Scotland when it closed in 1967, following a disastrous fire which killed nine miners.
Phillips, Jim
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A drag on the ticket? Estimating top‐of‐the‐ticket effects on down‐ballot races
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Campaign staff, journalists, and political scientists commonly attribute the poor performances of a party's down‐ballot candidates to low‐quality or extreme top‐of‐the‐ticket candidates, but empirical evidence on this conventional wisdom is scant. We estimate the effect of candidate quality and ideology in gubernatorial and U.S.
Kevin DeLuca +2 more
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RAN, 2020 The purpose of this research is to analyze the causes of loss of efficiency, profitability and bankruptcy, according to Transparency Venezuela (2020a, 2018) of 70% of the five hundred and twenty-six (526) companies held by the Venezuelan state since the ...
Juan Carlos Fonseca Sánchez
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Privatization and nationalization cycles [PDF]
This paper studies the cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies as a prime instance of unstable institutional reform.
Chang, Roberto +2 more
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What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This article attempts to clarify the meaning of (de)politicization. Politicization sometimes refers to the inappropriate intrusion of partisan loyalties in nonpolitical social domains (affective politicization). Politicization can also constitute an ideal of civic agency and energy (contestatory politicization).
Dimitrios Halikias
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Government intervention, political connections, and stock performance: an event study from Argentina
Business and PoliticsThis paper examines whether political connections can protect firms from losses resulting from a government’s adverse policies. I explore this question in the context of Argentina’s partial nationalization of publicly traded firms in 2008–2011, resulting
Marcelo Cano-Kollmann
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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
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Patrimonial archives of the Tambov landowners’ estates: the documentary heritage nationalization
Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2019 We consider the potential of the Russian landowners’ estates patrimonial records management as a historical source for the features characteristic of the landlord economy development after the serfdom abolition.
R. M. Zhitin
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Profit Sharing under the Threat of Nationalization [PDF]
A multinational corporation engages in foreign direct investment for the extraction of a natural resource in a developing country. The corporation bears the initial investment and earns as a return a share of the profits. The host country provides access
Di Corato, Luca
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