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Crowding Out the Market: State Religious Policy and Social Capital Among Religious Adherents

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do governments’ policies toward religion impact the relationship between citizens and civil society? A large body of literature examines the effect of social capital on democratic governance. Studies of State Religious Policy, or SRP, however, have shown complex and potentially contradictory effects on different types of social capital ...
Brendan Szendrő
wiley   +1 more source

Journey to the Centre of the State: Catalans in Madrid and Scots in London

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, comparative studies between Scotland and Catalonia have grown substantially, especially those dealing with the territorial embeddedness of these territories in the United Kingdom and Spain. Despite this, comparative research on the integration of Catalans and Scots in the decision‐making of central state institutions is ...
Javier Antón‐Merino
wiley   +1 more source

A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article adds to academic literature interested in two core questions: What happens to residents as a result of an annexation? And how do aggressor states maintain control over an annexed territory where there is a history of insurgency and mobilization for independence?
Serena Hussain
wiley   +1 more source

VERNALIZATION2 alters early tiller development in a facultative spring hexaploid bread wheat

open access: yesNew Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary An extended period of cold exposure enables the process of vernalization in winter cereals and is important for the synchronised timing of the floral transition. The cereal‐specific floral repressor VERNALIZATION2 (VRN2) has an integral role in vernalization, yet this locus remains poorly characterised in facultative spring hexaploid wheat ...
Dominique Hirsz   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Steroid Hormones Are Potent and Putatively Endogenous Activators of Human Bitter Taste Receptors

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, EarlyView.
Human bitter taste receptors are not only involved in sensing tastants within the oral cavity but also play crucial roles in internal tissues of the body. The current report identifies numerous structurally and functionally diverse steroid hormones as activators of the two human bitter taste receptors, TAS2R14 and TAS2R46.
Tatjana Lang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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