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Explaining Variation in Support for Ethnic Group Rights: The Role of Forced Displacement and Conflict Proximity

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why do some members of an ethnic group support ethnic group rights while others do not? Drawing on social psychology, I argue that exposure to political violence shapes individual attitudes by deepening in‐group and out‐group distinctions and fostering expressive solidarity towards group rights. To test this argument, the study uses nationally
Oner Yigit
wiley   +1 more source

Reproducing National Distinction: How Cultural Capital Shapes Estonia's Russian School Field

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on nationalism has long emphasized the homogenizing role of education in producing shared language, history and identity, while studies in the sociology of education have examined how cultural capital and social class structure school hierarchies.
Léo Henry
wiley   +1 more source

The Ethnic Groups Military Recruitment Data

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Military conscription affects how countries expand political rights and fight wars, as well as their citizens' view of the state and socioeconomic outcomes. Until recently, conscription was studied in a simplified fashion, missing cases where it only applies to specific societal groups. We introduce the Ethnic Military Recruitment (EGMR) data,
Markéta Odlová, Marius Mehrl
wiley   +1 more source

Trade and economic cooperation of Russia and Turkey

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Economics, 2013
The article examines a specificity of modern trade and economic relations of the Russian Federation and Turkish Republic. The author in detail analyzes power and investment cooperation between two countries, and also are mentioned other areas of economic
A V Suleymanov
doaj  

Do Government Interventions Improve Local Public Service Performance? Evidence From a Synthetic Control Approach

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Governments in many democratic countries have the mandate to require local authorities to address failures in the management and performance of the public services that they provide. Such policies often involve the takeover of authorities to implement improvements assumed to result in organizational turnaround.
Rhys Andrews
wiley   +1 more source

The Closure of the Russian Military Base at Akhalkalaki: Challenges for the Local Energy Elite, the Informal Economy and Stability

open access: yesJournal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, 2009
In 2007, the base of the Russian army’s 62nd Division at Akhalkalaki, Georgia was shut down. After outlining the historical role of the base in Russian–Armenian–Turkish relations, this article examines how it was the linchpin of informal economies and ...
Indra Øverland
doaj  

Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In contrast to the “quiet” politics of the pre‐2008 period, macroeconomic policy has become “noisy”. This break raises a question: How do independent agencies designed for quiet politics react when a contentious public turns the volume up on them?
Benjamin Braun, Maximilian Düsterhöft
wiley   +1 more source

Regulating Autonomous Weapon Systems: Searching for African Solutions to Regional and Global Problems

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), while offering strategic advantages in warfare, pose significant ethical, legal, and security risks, especially for countries in the Global South. This article examines how a philosophical perspective, rooted in African ethical and political thought, can enrich regional and global debates on regulating ...
Ezenwa E. Olumba   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reversal of economic integration: evidence from European Union enlargement

open access: yesThe Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Empirical models of trade agreements implicitly assume that withdrawal from a trade agreement has an equal and opposite trade effect as accession (i.e., symmetry). With increasing opposition to international economic cooperation, it becomes urgent to test this assumption.
Hinnerk Gnutzmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
wiley   +1 more source

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