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ABSTRACT Universal basic income and collective working‐time reductions are familiar features of a ‘post‐work’ politics that seeks to reduce the unfreedom associated with the workplace. Proponents appeal to an image of freedom where citizens are liberated from the compulsive aspects of wage‐labor and free to engage in self‐determined projects and ...
Thijs Keulen
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A revolution in instalments. Whither Pashinyan’s Armenia now? OSW Commentary NUMBER 285 | 10.09.2018 [PDF]
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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Inequality, Fiscal Capacity and the Political Regime: Lessons from the Post-Communist Transition [PDF]
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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Dihotomija človeškega in živalskega: Salustij in (nekateri) njegovi zgledi
Sallust’s prologue in his monograph The Catilinarian Conspiracy is an unusual one: at first glance it almost seems to be a philosophical introduction rather than a historiographic one.
Gregor Pobežin
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La Muerte de Farruko Pop/The Death of Farruko Pop
Abstract In May 2024, the body of Farruko Pop—a Q'eqchi’‐Maya singer and social media influencer—was found buried in a shallow grave in Guatemala City. Although he was just 18 years old and from a small rural community, his murder made front‐page news and became the major subject of commentary and speculation in the country.
Eric Hoenes del Pinal
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Ownership concentration in Russian industry [PDF]
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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Soviet legacies of economic development, oligarchic rule, and electoral quality in Eastern Europe’s partial democracies: the case of Ukraine [PDF]
Can economic development retard democracy, defying expectations of classic modernization theorizing? If so, under what conditions? Our article addresses the puzzle of poor democratic performance in highly urbanized and industrialized postcommunist states.
Lankina, Tomila V., Libman, Alexander
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Privatisation and restructuring of water supply in Russia and Ukraine [PDF]
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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Abstract Donald Trump's three presidential campaigns have centred on promises to stop unauthorised immigration, whether by ‘building the wall’ or by enacting the largest mass deportation in American history. To deliver on these promises, Trump has appointed Stephen Miller—an anti‐immigration hardliner who was responsible for the first Trump ...
Caroline Nagel
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