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The bread of Toledo: Prices and political economy, 1535–1800

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266‐year‐long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread‐for‐wheat contracts of large institutions. Our data are strongly consistent with fragmentary evidence on retail price regulation, as well as with shorter series from other ...
Mauricio Drelichman, David González Agudo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patrimony not Equity: The Trust in Scotland

, 2015
This chapter examines the importance of patrimony as an organising principle of trust in the absence of equity. The law of property in Scotland and other mixed jurisdictions is always civilian; like civil law countries, they do not have a separate system
Kenneth G C Reid
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PEASANTS AND LANDLORDS IN THE SYSTEM OF SERFDOM RELATIONS IN PRE-PETRINE RUSSIA

Вестник университета, 2020
The evolution of landowners ‘ ownership rights to land and peasants in Russia of the XVII century has been considered. Throughout the century, there has been a tendency to strengthen local land ownership in Russia, which was expressed in the legal and ...
O. Yu. Yakhshiyan
doaj   +1 more source

Unprincipled Principals in the Accountability Chain: Autonomy and Political Control Within Tax Administration in a Developing Country Context

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT SDG 16 emphasizes the need for accountable institutions, often based on the assumption that public officials are accountable to politicians, who in turn are accountable to citizens. However, in many developing countries, neopatrimonial governance can weaken this accountability chain, as politicians themselves may act as “unprincipled ...
Edidiong Bassey, Emer Mulligan
wiley   +1 more source

90 Day Fiancé: Presentations of Status Exchange on the International Marriage Market

Family Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examines power and status, as constructed by producers on the reality television show 90 Day Fiancé, that comes from being a US citizen on the international marriage market. We investigate what show producers present each partner as offering the other and what this suggests about gender and power in cross‐national ...
Andrea Laurent‐Simpson, Beth Montemurro, Jessica Wray   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is the Brazilian State “Patrimonial”?

Latin American Perspectives, 2016
Patrimonialism is ubiquitous in the analysis of the state in Brazil, a country in which the concept has its own distinctive genealogy. However, patrimonialism has been subject to severe conceptual stretching, limiting its usefulness in comparative analysis. Furthermore, the “commanding heights” of the federal bureaucracy have become more universalistic
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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
wiley   +1 more source

No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the ...
Tania Murray Li, Pujo Semedi
wiley   +1 more source

GESTIUNEA PATRIMONIULUI PUBLIC ÎN REPUBLICA MOLDOVA

Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice, 2009
In this article the author examine the public patrimony structure, identify the existing management problems of public patrimony in Republic of Moldova and highlights the differences between public and private patrimony.
USM ADMIN
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Blindagem patrimonial utilizando a holding patrimonial

, 2019
BLINDAGEM PATRIMONIAL UTILIZANDO A HOLDING PATRIMONIALResumo: O presente artigo trata da blindagem patrimonial utilizando a holding patrimonial. No mundo dos negócios, é preciso estar sempre atento para tornar seu empreendimento mais rentável, necessário resguardar aquilo que já foi conquistado.
Aguiar, Carla Alessandra Branca Ramos Silva, Santos, Elizama Alencar Rodrigues   +1 more
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