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Broke Autocrats, Broken Elections: Trade Shocks and Electoral Fraud in Autocracies
Economics &Politics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We argue that when terms‐of‐trade (ToT) shocks reduce resource rents, autocrats lose the fiscal capacity to sustain loyalty through patronage and increasingly rely on electoral manipulation as a survival strategy. We present a simple model in which rents finance patronage in normal times, while adverse shocks reduce the effectiveness of ...
Antonis Adam, Sofia Tsarsitalidou
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Разработка и регистрация лекарственных средств, 2019 Currently, the key problem in the field of drug provision for the population of the Russian Federation is the lack of affordable and high-quality domestic drugs for the treatment of diseases associated with violations of fat and carbohydrate metabolism ...
S. Yu. Fabrichniy +2 more
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 137-165., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Konstantin Litasov +3 more
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Learning not to help in Nanjing and London–Cultural elaboration of empathy in childhood
Ethos, EarlyView.Abstract Helping is one of the key features of human sociality. The ethnographic record is pervaded by accounts of people doing things with and for each other from an early age. Developmental psychology has shown that by the time children begin to walk and talk, they already display helpful behavior in many situations.
Anni Kajanus
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Insect Molecular Biology, EarlyView.Duplication of vas genes is universally observed in aphids, and phylogenetic analysis indicates that this event predates the divergence of Aphididae and Phylloxeridae. Ap‐vas1 is germline‐specific, whereas Ap‐vas2–4 exhibit somatic expression, indicating functional divergence during aphid embryogenesis.
Gee‐Way Lin +4 more
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Can the localization ratio be considered as a resilience indicator in the supply chain?
International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.Abstract Supply chain resilience is concerned with establishing disruption‐resistant operational practices and ensuring the achievement of some planned performance responding to shocks. Thus, resilience is both a quality and a quantity. The existing literature is rich in analyzing each of these two parts separately. However, studies connecting quantity
Dmitry Ivanov
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Who Cares: Why the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict Matters (More) to Some EU Member States
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract What drives the salience of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict amongst EU member states? This article employs domestic foreign policy theories to explain the factors underlying variation in salience, estimated analysing all country statements made at the United Nations General Assembly between 1993 and 2017.
Valerio Vignoli +2 more
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Peculiarities of Political Struggle in the Formation of Regional Parliamentarism in Modern Russia
Управленческое консультирование, 2018 The aim of the study: to study the specificity of political struggle in the formation of regional parliamentarism in modern Russia.Research methods: problem-theoretical, chronological, systemic, historical-comparative.Results: proposals for the creation ...
A. A. Zaikin
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«Soft Power»: the Updated Theoretical Concept and Russian Assembly Model
RUDN Journal of Political Science, 2011 The article is dedicated to critically important informational and ideological aspects of Russia's foreign policy. The goal is to revise and specify the notion soft power in the context of rapidly changing space of global politics. During the last years international isolation of Russia, including informational and ideological sphere is increasing. The
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