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Autonomy Impaired: Centralisation, Authoritarianism and the Failing Iraqi State

Ethnopolitics, 2015
Regional autonomy is guaranteed in the constitution of Iraq, yet between 2006 and 2014 the Shiite prime minister at the time, Nouri al-Maliki, did his utmost to limit the power of both Kurds and Sunnis. Maliki worked to further centralise governance and amassed greater controls and power—from militarily to legislative—for his party.
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The Ottoman state and the question of state autonomy: Comparative perspectives

Journal of Peasant Studies, 1991
Donated by Klaus Kreiser ; Reprinted from : New Approaches to State and Peasant in Ottoman History, 1992.
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The State and Ethnic Autonomy in Nigeria

Regional & Federal Studies, 2003
This article examines the utility of the principle of autonomy in the management of deeply divided polities, from the perspective of the Nigerian case. It traces the origins of the principle to the attempts by the colonial authorities and subsequent regimes to accommodate the country's ethnic diversity, but argues that this essentially state-centred ...
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State Autonomy — A Conceptual Framework

2005
The principle of economic determination entails that economic phenomena explain (or determine) non-economic phenomena. The reach of economic determination within Marxist theory may be clarified by distinguishing between the claims of Marxist sociology and the theory of history.1 The sociology does not claim that all non-economic phenomena are explained
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Mexico: the Limits of State Autonomy

Latin American Perspectives, 1975
The predominant role of the state in advanced capitalist societies as well as so-called third world countries has been evident in recent contemporary Marxist literature (Miliband, 1969; Murray, 1971; O'Connor, 1973; Warren, 1972; Quijano, 1972; Ianni, 1974; Pompermayer and Smith, 1973; also the journal Kapitalistate, and the Winter 1974 issue of ...
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On the Autonomy of the Democratic State.

Contemporary Sociology, 1983
Leslie Guliasi, Eric A. Nordlinger
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Sub-state nationalism / autonomy :

2013
This work was conducted with the aim of advancing our understanding of the modern and political nature of nationalism as a social phenomenon. To this end it has proposed an understanding of nationalism as contextually linked to the governmentalisation of the state.
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Native Autonomy in a Multinational State

2020
This chapter examines the conceptions of autonomy, indigeneity, and other dimensions of native belonging in the multinational Russian state. It explains why many Buryats have not taken up discourses of indigenous rights, even though doing so would likely benefit them in concrete financial and political ways.
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Authority, Autonomy and the Legitimate State

Journal of Applied Philosophy, 1992
ABSTRACT R. P. Wolff has argued that there is an irreconcilable conflict between the distinguishing mark of every state, viz. supreme authority over all its citizens, and the primary obligation of rational beings, viz. to act autonomously by taking moral responsibility for all of their actions.
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On the Autonomy of the Democratic State

The American Historical Review, 1982
Michael Curtis, Eric A. Nordlinger
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