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Pakistan: Civil-Military Relations in a Post-Colonial State
PCD Online Journal, 2017 This article has attempted to explain why the military has remained a powerful political institution/force in Pakistan. Its purpose was to test a hypothesis that posited that the colonial authority structure and the 1947 partition-oriented structural ...
Ejaz Husain
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Review of Business and Economics Studies, 2022 Aim and subject. This piece argues that the philosophical bedrock of conventional social science, including political economy, is a collection of over-aestheticized platitudes (viz., “the great books of the West”), whose common thread is, for the most ...
Guido Giacomo Preparata
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Journal of Legal Studies, 2023 Indonesia, which is a democratic country, is not necessarily free from the practice of ownership of a handful of groups that influence the course of the National constitution.
Suftyadi Ahmad Rifai +2 more
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Application of Edward Schills' Modernist Oligarchy Theory to the Second Pahlavi Period (1978-1987) [PDF]
دولتپژوهی, 2020 The second Pahlavi state has been the subject for many works so far. But in the meantime, less research has discussed the nature and form of the political system of this period.
Mohammad Radmard
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Exploring Patterns of Collective Corruption and Integrity Risks by Regional Heads in Indonesia
Journal of Governance and Public PolicyThis study aims to analyze the collective corruption networks involving regional heads in Indonesia. Employing a descriptive qualitative approach, data were gathered from secondary sources, including major national online media outlets such as Kompas ...
Mohammad Hidayaturrahman +5 more
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Peter the Great’s “heirs”: power and administration in post-Petrine Russia
Вестник университета, 2022 The article examines the evolution of the power and governance system in the first decade after the death of Peter the Great, one of the most dramatic periods of Russian history, commonly referred to in the historical literature as the “ epoch of palace ...
N. A. Omelchenko
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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Serbia and transition: In turmoil of political and economic oligarchy [PDF]
Sociološki Pregled, 2001 This article deals with obstacles that Serbia faces during the process of delayed transition after the constitution of democratic government. The attention is focused on the role of the most important political and economic actors in the process, whose ...
Tripković Milan B.
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Structural Distortions: Re-examining State Capture and Apprising its Persistence and Effects
Sprawy Międzynarodowe, 2021 Moldova is a textbook-plus case of a captured state, a condition synonymous with a number of post-Soviet countries. Moldova’s state capture resulted from its post-1991 partial reform path which enabled the emergence of oligarchs able to seize core state
Kerry Longhurst
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