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Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While the relationship between public infrastructure and crime location choices is well‐studied in criminology, the impact of crime as a spillover externality on public–private partnership (PPP) infrastructure financing remains unexplored. Leveraging a data set of 542 Private Finance Initiative (PFI)‐funded infrastructures in England and Wales
King Yoong Lim +3 more
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The contradictions of populism: reasserting adult education for democracy
AS: Andragoška Spoznanja, 2018 The context for this paper is the rise of populism across the UK, Europe and the US, a trend which is sweeping western liberal capitalist democracies in particular but also beyond in countries such as Turkey.
Jim Crowther
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Do deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights?
The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.Abstract Unauthorised deepfakes are deeply problematic, from the spreading of misinformation to non‐consensual pornographic content. This paper asks whether deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights. To address this question, it examines the harms that deepfakes can cause through disinformation, demeaning content ...
Hayleigh Bosher
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Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2019 The article deals primarily with the poetic discourse surrounding the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum and the post-referendum developments in the UK.
Evgeniia Zimina, Mariana Sargsyan
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Separatist nationalism often persists in divided minority regions where internal factions struggle to agree on governance models, perpetuating conflict and political tension. This article examines the key structural and situational factors driving these divisions in Corsica, focusing on economic dependencies that shape divergent approaches to ...
Durukan Imrie‐Kuzu, Saliha Metinsoy
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While political leaders increasingly combine populist and secessionist appeals, systematic evidence remains lacking regarding their effectiveness in mobilizing public support. Drawing on original survey data from Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where leader Milorad Dodik employs populist‐secessionist rhetoric, this study finds that
Semir Dzebo
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Scottish Regionalist Discourse in British Press
Научный диалог, 2019 The article is devoted to the Scottish regionalist discourse in the British quality press. The period from the time of the referendum on independence in 2014 till 2019 is covered. Regionalist discourse is considered as an object of linguistic study.
O. A. Blinova
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Words After the Storm: Elite Rhetoric and the Limits of De‐Escalation in Postreferendum Catalonia
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When does a secessionist crisis end? What drives political elites to shift from hostility to moderation? This article examines the prospects of rhetorical de‐escalation in the aftermath of a secessionist dispute through the paradigmatic case of Catalonia.
Daniel Cetrà +3 more
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Cultural and Economic Grievances and the Political Salience of Secessionism
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why does secessionism become politically salient at some times but recede at others? Existing work highlights how cultural and economic grievances can shape secessionism, but it explains less well when these claims elevate the salience of secessionism and why similar grievances matter in some contexts but not others.
Kevin Gatter
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Tackling Poverty Across the United Kingdom. Devolution, Difference and Discourse
IPPR Progressive Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The UK welfare state is often considered as being highly centralised, yet the design and administration of UK social security involves significant spatial variations in law, policy, and practice. As such, where you live in the UK can affect the value of benefits and cash transfers you are entitled to, as well as how you experience benefit ...
Ruth Patrick +3 more
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