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Cultural Differences and Economic Incentives: an Agent-Based Study of Their Impact on the Emergence of Regional Autonomy Movements [PDF]

open access: yes
Explanations of the emergence of regional autonomy movements - political organizations seeking to express sub-state affinities and interests - often highlight cultural differences and economic incentives as important reasons driving regional elites and ...
Dan Miodownik
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Religious Affiliation and Individual International-Policy Preferences in the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Empirical examination of individual-level survey data on national identity, in general, reveals a significant relationship between religious affiliation and an individual’s international-policy preferences and that this relationship varies across ...
Daniels, Joseph P.
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Regional Influences on U.S. Monetary Policy: Some Implications for Europe [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper looks at the monetary policy decisions of the U.S. Federal Reserve and asks whether those decisions have been influenced solely by national concerns, or whether regional factors have played a role.
D. Nathan Sheets, Ellen E. Meade
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Territorial-Administrative Decentralisation and Ethnocultural Diversity in Ukraine: Addressing Hungarian Autonomy Claims in Zakarpattya [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The paper argues firstly that, since there is no obvious separatist movement within Zakarpattya, the Ukrainian state should seek as far as possible to accommodate Hungarian identity claims within the region (and those of other smaller minority ...
Semenyshyn, Mariana, Smith, David J.
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The Neofunctionalists Were (almost) Right: Politicization and European Integration [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the politicization of European integration. We begin by asking how neofunctionalism and its precursor, functionalism, conceive the politics of regional integration.
Gary Marks, Lisbet Hooghe
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Turbulence a la Haas, Disjointed Incrementalism a la N.A.F.T.A.: Utility of Transatlantic Comparisons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
When NAFTA was not extended in December 2008, was it demonstrating the kind of interdependence, rather than integration, Ernst Haas was proposing for the European Community in the 1970s? How does NAFTA compare with the European Union today?
Hussain, Imtiaz
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Examining the use of Andalusian Spanish on X.com platform: a content analysis of posts to assess regional identity and linguistic features

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
This study examines the use of Andalusian Spanish on X.com platform as a means of expressing regional identity. Through content analysis of 50 words, organized in a table with their phonetic pronunciation and English translation, each group of words was ...
Tala Saleh   +2 more
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The role of climate and plant functional trade-offs in shaping global biome and biodiversity patterns

open access: yes, 2011
Aim: Two of the oldest observations in plant geography are the increase in plant diversity from the poles towards the tropics and the global geographic distribution of vegetation physiognomy (biomes). The objective of this paper is to use a process-based
Ackerly   +47 more
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Works of art associated with architecture of mining complexes in the Ostrava-Karviná Coalfield (Czech Republic)

open access: yesEnvironmental & Socio-economic Studies
This articles maps works of art in mine complexes in the Czech part of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (in the northeastern part of the country bordering Poland). In the territory of the former Czechoslovakia, it was customary between ca.
Ivánek Jakub
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Photographic publications of the Ostrava-Karviná mines in the Czech Republic

open access: yesEnvironmental & Socio-economic Studies
Photographic publications played a key role in promoting coal mining in the Ostrava-Karviná region (OKR) and across the entire Czechoslovakian industry.
Durczak Ondřej
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