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The Socioeconomic Background of the Divergence of Belarusian and Ukrainian Political Systems [PDF]
, 2007 The aim of this paper is to analyze the political, social and economic background of the divergence of Belarusian and Ukrainian transitions. We focus on Belarus in order to find explanation for questions such as why could Lukashenko remain the ...
Mészáros, Ádám
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Antisocial behaviour and the vulnerable public [PDF]
, 2014 Key to understanding the emergence of antisocial behavior legislation in the UK is the concept of diminished subjectivity, the emergence of an insecure elite guided by a precautionary principle of safety, and the construction and engagement with a ...
Waiton, Stuart
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Elite capture, political voice and exclusion from aid: An experimental study [PDF]
, 2008 We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups.
D'Exelle, Ben, Riedl, Arno
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Institution building and political accountability [PDF]
, 2013 The paper examines the role of policy intervention in engendering institutional change. We show that first order changes in the political structure (e.g. introduction of democracy) may be undermined by local political interests and result in persistence
Majumdar , Sumon, Mukand, Sharun W.
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The political economy of the Prussian three-class franchise [PDF]
, 2019 How did the Prussian three-class franchise, which politically over-represented the economic elite, affect policies? Contrary to the predominant and simplistic view that the system allowed the landed elites to capture most political rents, we find that ...
Becker, Sascha O., Hornung, Erik
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Unamerican Views: Why US-developed models of press-state relations don't apply to the rest of the world [PDF]
, 2008 The article shows the limitations of the 'indexing' hypothesis, an influential conceptualization of state-press relations based on the notion that the media tend to reproduce the range of debate within political elites. The hypothesis, as confirmed by an
Archetti, C
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Political Elites in Federalized Countries: The Case of Spain (1980-2005). CES Working Paper, no. 146, 2008 [PDF]
, 2008 This paper explores the social profile of the regional elite that has emerged in Spain since the de-mocratization and federalization of the country. For the first time, researchers present data about crucial variables like gender, place of birth, age ...
Coller, Xavier, +2 more
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Democratic Culture in America [PDF]
, 2019 America has multiple civic traditions and is a nation that blends liberal and illiberal ideals. The Lockean liberal foundations the American civic community is built upon left space for people like Thomas Jefferson to add non-liberal elements to Locke’s ...
Gordon, Joseph
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Enlightenment, Latin America, Age of Revolutions, Spanish America, Brazil [PDF]
, 2017 An essay analyzing the effect of Enlightenment thinking on the political and societal elite of the colonial Spanish and Portuguese Americas, and the subsequent colonial ...
Lentz, Katherine A.
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Political Settlements: Issues paper [PDF]
, 2009 Why do similar sets of formal institutions often have such divergent outcomes? An analysis of political settlements goes some way to answering this question by bringing into focus the contending interests that exist within any state, which constrain and ...
Di John, Jonathan, Putzel, James
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