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Political formations

2016
Abstract The period 1880‒1920 witnessed the emergence of a socialist movement and the Labour Party in Britain, anarchist attacks, and a re-energized women’s suffrage campaign: political formations shaped the twentieth-century British state.
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Class Formation and Political Development

2014
What roles or effects do economic reforms and globalisation have on the process of deconstructing political hierarchies in Chinese society today? My study finds that there are distinctive differences between the young and the old generation in terms of class culture. The young generation are individualistic, materialistic, and money-making in attitude.
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Commensuration: Re-Formatting the Political

2020
This chapter examines the attempt to create a new system for the collection of the data needed to produce the kind of agriculture statistics in specific commensurable formats required by the EU. The task was to expand the coverage to include all land being farmed, so that the system might be used to generate more comprehensive agricultural data.
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Political Dynasty Formation in Bangladesh

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2016
ABSTRACTPolitical dynasticism in South Asia and elsewhere is extensive, but poorly understood. To investigate the phenomenon, we look at political competition at the regional level in Bangladesh. We argue that mechanisms and tools in the local political culture that give rise to other aspects of South Asian politics also give rise to dynasticism ...
Arild Engelsen Ruud, Mohammad Mozahidul Islam   +1 more
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Political Transformation and Elite Formation in Croatia

European Sociological Review, 2002
The authors use three sets of Croatian survey data (1984, 1989, and 1996) in order to analyse the reproduction and circulation of elites. The essence of the approach is to compare the extent of circulation of elites during the communist period with the circulation that happened after the fall of communism. The result is that the quantity of circulation
Sekulić, Duško, Šporer, Željka
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Family, Formation, Extra-Political Activities

2018
Chapter 24 examines the first three decades of Demosthenes’ life, focusing on his family and personal life, his upbringing, and the lawsuits against his guardians. Although born into a privileged family, his guardians’ neglect and scheming out of greed left Demosthenes at the mercy of other family members.
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Charisma in Eroticised Political Formations

2013
Emptying oneself of one’s self, thought or opinion, even at the price of pain, offering one’s own body to suffering, these features marked the extraordinary senselessness and inner determination of the liminal, as Turner says about the communitas, giving liminal authorities the capacity to transmogrify initiands outside the boundaries of reality and ...
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Anti-imperialist politics: Class formation and socio-political action

Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2004
Anti-Imperialist Politics: Class Formation and Socio-Political Action James Petras September 11, 2003 Introduction To understand the nature and dynamics of anti-imperialist politics it is important to answer several key questions. These include: 1. What constitutes an anti-imperialist movement (AIM)?
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Politics in Coalition Formation of Local Governments [PDF]

, 2012
We analyze empirically the coalition formation of local governments using a novel reduced form econometric procedure that allows for multi-partner mergers. Using Finnish municipal merger data where mergers were decided independently at the local level, we find that merger decisions are largely in line with voter preferences.
Tuukka Saarimaa, Janne Tukiainen
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Poverty Politics and State Formation

Abstract This chapter maps how, as the sixteenth century progressed, the Habsburg rulers Charles V and Philip II attempted to consolidate and expand the Spanish imperial state through the expansion and reform of laws and institutions relating to the governance of the poor and poor relief.
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