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The recent elections may have only postponed Greece’s default and Eurozone exit [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Last Sunday’s elections in Greece saw the pro-bailout New Democracy party gain the largest share of the vote, reassuring many commentators who had been fearing a default by Greece or even its ejection from the Eurozone.
Halikiopoulou, Daphne   +1 more
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How Change Recipients Become Rivals: Legitimacy Dynamics and ‘Cooptive Rejection’ in Organizational Change

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Our study challenges a commonly held assumption in the legitimacy and organizational change literatures: that the legitimacy of a change project is closely tied to, and dependent upon, the legitimacy of the change agent promoting it. Drawing on an in‐depth, three‐and‐a‐half‐year qualitative study of a major transformation within a French ...
Alaric Bourgoin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“I Paid A Bribe”—Lessons and Insights From Crowdsourced Corruption Reporting in India

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Preventing and reducing corruption has proven to be an enormous challenge. An important step in this process is to produce and use good metrics to identify where anti‐corruption resources would be most beneficial. Most measures of corruption, however, rely on surveys of perceptions or bribery incidence.
Ina Kubbe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Politics and Dynasty: Underaged Cardinals in the Catholic Church, 1420-1605

open access: yesRoyal Studies Journal, 2017
Parallel with Rome becoming a European diplomatic centre, through the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, European princes and Italian nobles sought to place their sons and the relatives of their advisors in the cardinalate in order to place a permanent ...
Jennifer Mara DeSilva
doaj   +1 more source

Designing and Explaining a Model for the Formation of Cronyism in the Organization [PDF]

open access: yesفرایند مدیریت و توسعه, 2023
Purpose: This research was conducted with the goal of identifying the causes and roots of Cronyism in governmental organizations of Lorestan Province.
Masood Sepahvand   +3 more
doaj  

One Mandarin Benefits the Whole Clan: Hometown Infrastructure and Nepotism in an Autocracy [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper studies nepotism by government officials in an authoritarian regime. We collect a unique dataset of political promotions of officials in Vietnam and estimate their impact on public infrastructure in their hometowns.
Anh Tran, Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Quoc-Anh Do
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A 'Clean Up' Campaign for Fiji's economy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
It appears that the military-imposed Interim Government will be in power in Fiji for a few years, with the deadline for a democratically elected government to be determined by the time needed for the carrying out of a census, the redrawing of electoral ...
Duncan, Ronald
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Understanding Afghan healthcare providers: a qualitative study of the culture of care in a Kabul maternity hospital. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
To analyse the culture of a Kabul maternity hospital to understand the perspectives of healthcare providers on their roles, experiences, values and motivations and the impact of these determinants on the care of perinatal women and their ...
Arnold, R.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

“They Speak Our Language!”: A Kinship Anthropology of Policing and Oversight in Kenya

open access: yesPoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This article introduces a kinship anthropology of policing framework to analyze the complexities and contestedness of police reform trajectories. Kinship is approached in a processual sense, made through practices and performances, and I contend that police officers act as a kin‐like group who engage in kinning.
Tessa Diphoorn
wiley   +1 more source

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