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The ISCIP Analyst, Volume V, Issue 9 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This repository item contains a single issue of The ISCIP Analyst, an analytical review journal published from 1996 to 2010 by the Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and ...
Burk, Nicholas   +9 more
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The City as an Anti‐Growth Machine

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Logan and Molotch's “urban growth machine” remains foundational in urban theory, describing how coalitions of landowners, developers, and politicians promote urban growth to raise land values. This paper argues that under financialized capitalism, the dynamics have inverted: asset appreciation now outweighs productive investment, and urban ...
Petter Törnberg
wiley   +1 more source

Student Mobilities to an ‘Offbeat’ or ‘Onbeat’ Destination? The Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme in Illiberal Hungary

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines international student mobility under Hungary's illiberal regime through the experiences of Stipendium Hungaricum (SH) participants. Launched in 2013, SH seeks to internationalise Hungarian higher education and strengthen ties with non‐EU countries, particularly those in the East.
Zsuzsanna Árendás
wiley   +1 more source

Ownership concentration in Russian industry [PDF]

open access: yes
Using a unique dataset built for the World Bank’s Country Economic Memorandum, we find that a relatively small number of tycoons ('oligarchs') control a substantial share of Russia’s economy.
Andrei Rachinsky, Sergei Guriev
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A revolution in instalments. Whither Pashinyan’s Armenia now? OSW Commentary NUMBER 285 | 10.09.2018 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In mid-August, a hundred days passed since Nikol Pashinyan took office as Armenia’s Prime Minister, which is an office of key importance for the Armenian political system.
Górecki, Wojciech
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A gentrification stage‐model for London? Through the ‘looking Glass’ of Kensington

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 1, March 2026.
Short Abstract Despite the term ‘gentrification’ being coined in London by the British sociologist Ruth Glass, there has not been an attempt to develop a stage model of gentrification for London, nor any up‐to‐date discussion of the different waves of gentrification there in one academic paper or book.
Loretta Lees, Sharda Rozena
wiley   +1 more source

Privatisation and restructuring of water supply in Russia and Ukraine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Examines the problems and policy issues in the water sector on Russia and Ukraine, the experiences with privatisation and reform so far, the activities of international institutions, and of multinational and Russian companies in the water ...
Hall, David, Popov, Vladimir
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Hide and rule: Accumulation by disappearance and necro‐periurbanisation in Brazil

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 1, March 2026.
Short Abstract This paper examines how peri‐urban spaces are governed through concealment and obfuscation. Focusing on the Baixada Fluminense near Rio de Janeiro, it connects land fraud (‘grilagem’) to the obfuscation of violence, proposing the concept of ‘accumulation by disappearance’.
Jan Simon Hutta
wiley   +1 more source

Is Homo Economicus Performative? Evidence From a Beauty Contest Experiment With Mainstream and Non‐Mainstream Academic Economists

open access: yesKyklos, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 38-52, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Does studying mainstream microeconomics cause individuals to behave more like the textbook version of homo economicus? Most studies suggesting a positive answer have used student samples and focused on self‐interested behaviors in collective dilemma situations.
Mikhail Sokolov, Alexander Libman
wiley   +1 more source

Original Sin, Good Works, and Property Rights in Russia: Evidence From a Survey Experiment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Are property rights obtained through legally dubious means forever tainted with original sin or can rightholders make their ill-gotten gains legitimate by doing good works?2 This is a critical question for developing countries (and Russia in particular ...
Frye, Timothy
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