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The Impact of Vertical Fiscal Imbalance on Gambling Policies in New South Wales, Australia: The Rise of the Poker Machine

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study traces how gambling in Australia changed from a simple form of leisure, enjoyed by all social classes in colonial times, to a billion‐dollar industry driven by political and economic imperatives. Using a case study, it links vertical fiscal imbalance (VFI), caused by changes to the state‐federal taxation structure, to the ...
Barbara Kinder, Michael B. Charles
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Injustice, relational violence, and the foster system

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Political theorists have not paid sustained attention to the foster system or treated it as a political institution. Despite this, scholars and social movement advocates have identified the system as a site of social and political injustice. This paper develops an account of racial, class, and relational injustice in the contemporary US foster
Emma Ebowe
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The electoral politics of immigration and crime

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Concern that immigration worsens crime problems is prevalent across Western publics. How does it shape electoral politics? Prior research asserted a growing left–right divide in immigration attitudes and voting behavior due to educational realignment.
Jeyhun Alizade
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Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
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The economic foundations of powersharing: Evidence from Africa

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract How—and with whom—do rulers share power? Existing research focuses on the strategic logic of powersharing. In this paper, we analyze its economic foundations. Powersharing is modeled as a subnational fiscal contract, in which rulers allocate political representation based on constituencies’ revenue potential. Empirically, we combine historical
Yannick I. Pengl, Philip Roessler
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Four Questions for Ethnographers Under Trumpian Authoritarianism

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines evolving challenges and ethical dilemmas facing ethnographers working under intensifying authoritarianism in the United States. Because very little of what the United States is experiencing is new, my work here is primarily curatorial in nature, drawing upon the lessons offered by scholars across disciplines in the United
Elizabeth Hanna Rubio
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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
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Land, Gendered Labor, and Empire‐Making in Central Sudan

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers an ethnographic analysis of Gulf Arab empire‐making in central Sudan, focusing on an Emirati‐owned farm in the Gezira region as a key site of capitalist extraction and imperial ambition. Through three overlapping vantage points—farm, port, and body—it explores how Emirati investments in Sudanese land, infrastructure, and ...
Nisrin Elamin
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Identifying Deficiencies in Children's Residential Care in Finland: Inspectors' Views on Working With Information

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Abusive and illegal practices in residential care are a recognised issue in child welfare internationally; thus, the question of how these institutions are supervised is important. However, children's residential care is complex by nature, making its supervision a challenging task.
Jenni Repo
wiley   +1 more source

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