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Stability of Nations and Genetic Diversity  [PDF]

This paper presents a model of nations where culturally heterogeneous agents vote on the optimal level of public spending. Larger nations benefit from increasing returns in the provision of public goods, but bear the costs of greater cultural ...
Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin, Klaus Desmet, Michel Le Breton, Shlomo Weber    +3 more
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Ghosting in the Job Market: The Principle of Communicative Reciprocity and the Duty of Transparency

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Niels de Haan
wiley   +1 more source

Unpacking Populist Secessionism: Elite Discourse and Mass Attitudes in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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
wiley   +1 more source

Nations as Natural Families: From Kin Selection to Multilevel Selection

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In nationalism studies, nations are often viewed as artificial constructs. By contrast, many sociobiologists see nations as natural families or kin groups. They explain altruism and shared ancestry among co‐nationals through kin selection theory, which accounts for altruism towards close genetic relatives. In this article, we refine and deepen
Filipe Nobre Faria, Sandra Dzenis
wiley   +1 more source

Architectural Analysis of the First Major Rehabilitation in the 21st Century of Olbrich’s Secession Building in Vienna

Buildings
The recent rehabilitation, reconstruction and adaptive reuse of Joseph Maria Olbrich’s Vienna Secession Building, completed in 2018, has brought the building into a contemporary age.
Biljana Arandelovic
doaj   +1 more source

The role of parliaments in secession referendums: Canadian doctrine and consensus democracy in designing decision-making process [PDF]

Revista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals
This article analyses the doctrine of the Supreme Court of Canada in its opinion on the secession of Quebec, as a key reference for the democratic management of territorial conflicts.
Elia Marzal Yetano
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Navigating identity dilemmas in protest: Everyday discursive strategies of engagement in the Catalan independence movement

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the past decade, large‐scale protests have been pivotal in shaping institutional dynamics and triggering societal change. Despite increased academic attention, the understanding of participants' experiences remains limited. This paper argues for adopting an actor‐centered perspective to gain novel insights into protest dynamics ...
Cristina Pradillo‐Caimari
wiley   +1 more source

DE FACTO STATES IN THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD: BETWEEN RUSSIAN DOMINATION AND EUROPEAN (DIS)ENGAGEMENT. THE CASE OF ABKHAZIA [PDF]

EURINT, 2016
With the ratification of the Association Agreements with Georgia and Moldova in 2014, the European Union (EU) has been confronted in its integration policies with several post-Soviet de facto states (Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria).
Sebastian RELITZ
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A Three‐Stage Model of the Maturation of Nascent Policy Subsystems Toward Stable Advocacy Coalitions, With Evidence From the UK's Response to COVID‐19

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy subsystems are comprised of competing advocacy coalitions, in which public and private political actors with shared belief systems learn from each other and coordinate their strategies in the pursuit of influencing policy making in their favor.
Kristijan Garic, Philip Leifeld
wiley   +1 more source

Pepper and bones: the secessionist impulse in Nevis

NWIG, 2004
Describes the history of the recurring impulse for independence from the St. Kitts-Nevis state on the part of Nevis. Author examines the modern political history of the St. Kitts-Nevis state, in order to discern the motivations of the Nevisian people and
Douglas Midgett
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