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, 2014 Polish migrants are the largest non-UK born population in Scotland (56,000 in 2012). As EU citizens who are resident in Scotland, they are eligible to vote in the 18 September 2014 referendum on Scottish independence.
McGhee, Derek, Pietka-Nykaza, Emilia
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Tones from a Narrowing Race: Polling and Online Political Communication during the 2014 Scottish Referendum Campaign [PDF]
, 2018 Evelyne Brie, Yannick Dufresne
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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On the strategic use of representative democracy in international agreements [PDF]
We consider as endogenous the choice of the delegation' rule in a political integration process between two countries. We study three potential types of delegation: strong, weak or no delegation, this last case corresponding to a referendum. We show that
Grégoire ROTA-GRAZIOSI
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British Balance of Competence Reviews, Part I: ‘Competences about right, so far’. EPIN Working Paper No. 35, October 2013 [PDF]
, 2013 The first in a series for a CEPS-EPIN project entitled “The British Question and the Search for a Fresh European Narrative” this paper is pegged on an ambitious ongoing exercise by the British government to review all the competences of the European ...
Blockmans, Steven., Emerson, Michael
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The governance of justice and internal security in Scotland: between the Scottish independence referendum and British decisions on the EU [PDF]
, 2014 Christian Kaunert +3 more
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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Let the People Speak … But Make the Politicians Decide
, 2006 There have been a number of recent calls for referendums, for two reasons. First, some argue that ratification of the reshaped EU constitution can only be done on the back of a referendum.
O'Hara, Kieron
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Oregon's wave of data center and semiconductor projects shows how cloud capitalism reorganizes resource systems and territorial governance. Examining Amazon, Google, and Intel, the article traces how fiscal incentives, utility programs, and land‐use instruments are recalibrated to secure hyperscale loads.
Justin Kollar
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Cost benefit analysis vs. referenda [PDF]
We consider a planner who chooses between two possible public policies and ask whether a referendum or a cost benefit analysis leads to higher welfare.
Martin J. Osborne, Matthew A. Turner
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