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The Royal Commission on the Constitution, 1927–1929
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Royal Commission on the Constitution (1927–1929) is a little‐remembered event in Australian political, policy and legal history, which produced—in the words of the constitutional law scholar Geoffrey Sawer—‘a useful student's textbook and a minor alteration in the Judiciary Act’.
Carolyn Holbrook
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Breadwinner backlash: The gendered effects of industrial decline
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Low‐skilled men have long been vulnerable to globalization, decarbonization, and other forms of economic disruption. When shocks are realized, women often increase their paid labor to compensate for men's loss of income. We study how layoffs of low‐skilled men and concurrent shifts in workforce composition toward women affect voting.
Richard Clark, Roza Khoban, Noah Zucker
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the mid‐2010s, Thai public discourse has villainised upland maize cultivation in northern Thailand for deforestation and environmental degradation through the popular imagery of bald mountains. The attention has prompted a new wave of land‐use interventions urging upland smallholders to replace maize with trees and perennials.
Pin Pravalprukskul +2 more
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In rural Thailand, unclear and unregulated property rights of state forestlands have led, for decades, to conflicting land claims between state agencies and villagers. To solve this problem, on the one hand, grassroots activists proposed the communal land title bill so that local people could obtain formal recognition of their land rights and ...
Chusak Wittayapak, Ian G. Baird
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Corporate Governance: An International Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue The Voice versus Exit debate among institutional investors dissatisfied with corporate issuers remains narrowly framed: Academic inquiry is de facto limited to listed equities. This overlooks the role of governance in corporate financing, which due to refinancing cycles, represents a key lever for investors aiming to ...
Andreas G. F. Hoepner +1 more
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, 1943 Pledge card acknowledging pledge, amount received and balance due for Margaret ...
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Antinomies of Nativism: Understanding Decoloniality Theory's Affinities with the Global Far Right
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the peculiar conjuncture of decolonial theory and contemporary far‐right ideology. It argues that their shared fixation on the dualism of native and settler is immanent to the development of advanced capitalism, particularly the sharpening of its contradictory tendency to undermine labour as the source of value, and to ...
Aylin Bademsoy, Neil Larsen
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Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
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, 2019 Ticari işletmelerin finansal ihtiyacı, ticari işletmeler üzerinde rehin hakkı kurularak sağlanmaktadır. Piyasaların güncel ihtiyaçlarına uygun yanıtlar verilebilmesi, işletmelerin finansal ve rekabet güçlerinin arttırılabilmesi amacıyla kanun koyucu; 28 ...
Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi. Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü. Özel Hukuk Anabilim Dalı. issuing body 90006 +2 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
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