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How Corruption Influences Population Health
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points This study examines the link between corruption and mortality. We find that corruption is associated with higher mortality, particularly in low‐income countries. It is also linked to lower government revenue and distorted government expenditure patterns, which may contribute to resource misallocation and constraints in health financing ...
ILIAS KYRIOPOULOS +3 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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Deolinda Rodrigues, da Família Metodista à Família MPLA, o Papel da Cultura na Política
Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 2010 This work, a product of dialogue with texts written by the guerrilla Deolinda Rodrigues, interrogates how a religio-cultural system identified as Protestantism, home to Angolan nationalist elites, in one of its ramifications – that known as the Methodist
Margarida Paredes
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
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Religion and the Money Laundering Risk
EconomiesIn this paper, we investigate the impact of religion on the money laundering risk, focusing specifically on Protestantism compared to other religions. Protestantism is often associated with greater individual self-discipline and stronger institutional ...
Hamza Mahmood, Badar Nadeem Ashraf
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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FEATURES OF THE SPREAD OF PROTESTANTISM IN CHINA IN THE XX - XXI CENTURIES.
Вестник Брянского государственного университетаSeveral religious traditions coexisted in China. The elite practiced Neo-Confucianism, the majority of the population adhered to the folk religion, and Buddhism was regarded by the authorities as a foreign religion.
Miazin N.A.
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“The Ethics of the Moment” in the early works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского институтаThis article is an analysis of the ethical texts by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, which arose in the early period of his oeuvre (1925–1932). The first part of the article is dedicated to the report “Basic Questions of a Christian Ethic” (1929).
Dmitriy Lebedev
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA‐identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single‐sex to coeducation at Princeton University.
Ezelle Sanford III +2 more
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