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Mediating the Scottish independence debate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In the six months leading up to the referendum vote on 18 September 2014 Scotland experienced a period of exceptionally heightened political discourse, a widespread form of political participation unusual in western liberal-democracies.
Law, Alex
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How cold is too cold? A theoretical analysis of the optimal trigger for index insurance for frost damage to crops

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Déconstruction, auto-immunité, précarité. De l’intraduisible politique chez Derrida [PDF]

open access: yesMeta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy, 2011
In this paper we try to analyze that which in Jacques Derrida’s philosophical and political thinking is called “political untranslatable” through a triple movement described in the late texts: a deconstruction movement, which can be found in his entire ...
Ciprian Mihali
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Les appellations du nationalisme politique écossais au vingtième siècle

open access: yesÉtudes Écossaises, 2015
Scottish political nationalism in the twentieth century is multi-faceted. Whereas the nationalist movement fluctuated between demands for autonomy or independence within the British institutional framework, a few groups of individuals acted outwith any ...
Arnaud Fiasson
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The co-evolution of the “social” and the “technology": a netnographic study of Social movements in virtual worlds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Virtual worlds provide new forms of social interaction. They offer alternative spaces where social functions can be carried out in online three-dimensional virtual environments.
Gardner, L, Mckenna, Brad, Myers, M
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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Russian Public Movement: program positions and place in the political spectrum of Russia (1994–1996) [PDF]

open access: yesОмский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
The article is devoted to the activities of the Russian Public Movement, the analysis of the provisions of its Program and the identification of a place in the political spectrum of both the West Siberian region and the Russian Federation as a whole ...
S. V. Novikov
doaj   +1 more source

The Contribution of Social Movement Theory to Understanding Genocide [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Recent years have witnessed a turn in the field of contentious politics toward the study of political violence, yet scholars have yet to focus their lens on genocide.
Luft, Aliza
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Enclaves of freedom. On „second circulation” publishing in the PRL [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
„Second circulation publishing”, the broadly defined publishing and cultural movement, independent of the authorities of the PRL and not subject to state censorship, was initiated in the autumn of 1976 by the community which opposed communist party rule ...
Tatarowski, Konrad W.
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Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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