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Affective polarization in low-partisanship societies. The case of Chile 1990–2021

Frontiers in Political Science, 2022
Does the decline in party identification lead to a decrease or an increase in affective polarization? In recent years, research about affective polarization has increased, asking whether contemporary publics polarize in terms of their affective ...
Carolina Segovia, Carolina Segovia
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The challenges of international collaboration in conflict and health research: experience from the Research for Health in Conflict-Middle East and North Africa (R4HC-MENA) partnership

Conflict and Health, 2023
Background Healthcare is a basic human right extending across all humanitarian contexts, including conflict. Globally, two billion people are living under conditions of insecurity and violent armed conflict with a consequent impact on public health ...
Chiu-Yi Lin, Kristen Meagher, Martin Bricknell, Preeti Patel, Nassim El Achi, Tezer Kutluk, Richard Harding, Hanna Kienzler, Rita Giacaman, Deborah Mukherji, Omar Shamieh, Richard Sullivan   +11 more
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Questioning Resilience: An Examination of the Effects of and Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Peripheries of Brazil

Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2023
In this article, we assess the effects of and responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in the Brazilian peripheries by relying on resilience theory and the experiences of peripheral actors during the first year of the pandemic. We consider these experiences to
Roberta Holanda Maschietto, Ana Maura Tomesani   +1 more
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Water Scarcity and Social Conflict [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water in space and time. This is expected to result in wet areas getting wetter and dry areas getting drier (Pan et al., 2015). As water is key to life, water scarcity is likely to provoke conflict.
Kerstin Unfried, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Tilman Poser   +2 more
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Climate of Hate: Similar Correlates of Far Right Electoral Support and Right-Wing Hate Crimes in Germany

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Since 2015, far right parties drawing heavily on radical anti-refugee rhetoric gained electoral support in Germany while the number of political hate crimes targeting refugees rose.
Jonas H. Rees, Jonas H. Rees, Yann P. M. Rees, Jens H. Hellmann, Andreas Zick   +4 more
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Support for Conciliatory Policies in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Role of Different Modes of Identification and Territorial Ownership Perceptions

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Understanding people’s attitudes toward conciliatory policies in territorial interethnic conflicts is important for a peaceful conflict resolution. We argue that ingroup identification in combination with the largely understudied territorial ownership ...
Nora Storz, Borja Martinović, Nimrod Rosler   +2 more
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Fateful Futures in the Presence of the Past: Epochalist Hopes at South Sudan’s Independence [PDF]

Ученые записки Института Африки Российской академии наук, 2019
Hope, understood as a “temporal reorientation of knowledge” (Miyazaki 2004, 5), enacts and changes the future as a precipitate of interaction (Crapanzano 2003, 6).
Timm SUREAU
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Perceptions of inequality and meritocracy: their interplay in shaping preferences for market justice in Chile (2016–2023)

Frontiers in Sociology
IntroductionSeveral countries have experienced a shift toward the privatization and commodification of public goods, welfare policies, and social services.
Juan Carlos Castillo, Juan Carlos Castillo, Andreas Laffert, Andreas Laffert, Kevin Carrasco, Julio Iturra-Sanhueza   +5 more
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Towards a Fiscal Sociology of Latin America

European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2019
Tax systems in Latin America are characterized by low collection, a higher incidence of regressive taxes and mechanisms, little redistribution, and poor compliance. Policymakers and international organizations have proposed reforms across the region with
Jorge Atria, Andrés Biehl, José Tomás Labarca   +2 more
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Citizen participation and its impact on political efficacy: insights from a town hall study in Germany

Frontiers in Political Science
This study investigates political efficacy—citizens’ beliefs in their ability to understand politics (internal political efficacy) and influence outcomes (external political efficacy)—in the context of town hall meeting (THMs) participation in a German ...
Yann P. M. Rees, Yann P. M. Rees, Leon Walter, Jonas Rees, Jonas Rees   +4 more
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