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Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Cuba is the oldest and most consolidated autocracy in the Americas. Its Revolution in 1959, the charisma of Fidel Castro, the single‐party system and the US embargo have made the island an exceptional case. However, recent developments such as popular protests, limited reforms, emigration or socio‐economic decline are bringing about some ...
Armando Chaguaceda, Susanne Gratius
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Governance, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines how political and administrative elites shape regime transformations under authoritarian rule, proposing an elite‐centered analytical perspective that complements prevailing accounts of “democratic backsliding.” We show how embedding political–administrative relations within a broader elite‐theoretical framework clarifies ...
Kutsal Yesilkagit, Johan Christensen
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The Origins of the Name ‘The Old Oligarch’
History of Classical ScholarshipThe origin of the name ‘Old Oligarch’ for the author of the Constitution of the Athenians has long been uncertain. This article argues that Gilbert Murray did, in fact, coin the name in A History of Ancient Greek Literature, paraphrasing an earlier ...
Daniel Sutton
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Gender, Marriage and the Elites in India
Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2026.ABSTRACT Scholarship on Indian marriages is vast and interesting, with insights into structural practices and transformations, everyday realities, and maintenance of boundaries and hierarchies of groups. To understand these aspects, studies have focussed on specific caste groups, religious and regional communities, bourgeoning urban areas and emerging ...
Parul Bhandari
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Where Now for Migration Studies? Problems, Purpose and Potential
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Volume 117, Issue 2, Page 164-182, April 2026.Abstract The 21st century has witnessed an explosion of academic research on migration. We now have a rich corpus of projects and publications, as well as academic posts, degree programmes, PhDs, conferences, journals, departments and other (often well‐funded) ventures dedicated to migration. In parallel, however, ultra‐nationalism, militarised borders
Melanie Griffiths
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Thermidor: The Revolution Betrayed in Trotsky, Orwell and Serge
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Anna Vaninskaya
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Ruth Glass: London's Gentrification Urban Visionary
Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT This paper analyses the contribution made by Ruth Glass to our understanding of gentrification and class change in London. It argues that not only was she remarkably ahead of her time in identifying and naming this important new phenomenon over 60 years ago, but that her discussion of the social and housing market impacts of gentrification ...
Chris Hamnett
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Una congettura a Pseudo-Senofonte,'Ath. Pol.' 2.1 [PDF]
, 2016 This paper offers a new conjecture for a well-known crux of [Xen.] Ath. Pol. 2.1: together with a thorough examination of the whole passage, 'amelousi' is suggested as an alternative to Wilamowitz's 'oleizous' for 'meizous' present in all the ...
Gargiulo T
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Inequality, Fiscal Capacity and the Political Regime: Lessons from the Post-Communist Transition [PDF]
, 2006 Using panel data for twenty-seven post-communist economies between 1987-2003, we examine the nexus of relationships between inequality, fiscal capacity (defined as the ability to raise taxes efficiently) and the political regime. Investigating the impact
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