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ABSTRACT This paper addresses stories of surveillance of Brazilian critical/radical geographers, drawing on innovative sources. That is, the folders and reports through which the political police and related institutions watched critical and radical scholars during the 20th century in all Brazilian states and abroad, under both ‘dictatorial’ and ...
Federico Ferretti, Guilherme Ribeiro
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the association between commercialization in the auditing profession and auditors' dedication to the profession. The paper further explores the contingent role of environmental uncertainty in this relationship. We hypothesize that these relations are contextually situated and that in a transitional economy like Georgia ...
Erekle Pirveli +2 more
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A Privilege That Can Be Withdrawn: Regulation of Exit in Russia and Other Post‐Soviet Republics
ABSTRACT The former Soviet Union's restrictions on citizens' foreign travel or emigration were notoriously draconian. Yet what replaced them in the fifteen independent states of the post‐Soviet region has not been well analysed. Outside the Baltic republics, the monolithic and prohibitive policies of the Soviet past have given way to a patchwork of ...
Matthew Light, Leonid Kosals
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Sufficiency Policy in Rural Municipalities: Measures, Enablers, and Barriers
ABSTRACT A mounting body of scientific evidence emphasizes the necessity of sufficiency as a sustainability strategy in view of intensifying global ecological crises. To enable and promote sufficiency implementation with the necessary speed and scope, efforts at all policy levels are needed.
Tonja Iten, Irmi Seidl, Marco Pütz
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Global Fields and Migration Regimes: Citizenship by Investment
ABSTRACT In the past decade, scholars of international migration have made remarkable strides in unpacking the complex infrastructures that channel cross‐border mobility by investigating the operation of profit‐oriented migration industries and the regulatory tussles of multilevel migration governance.
Kristin Surak
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Shadow Education in the Soviet and Post‐Soviet Eras: A Political‐Economic Analysis of Changing Tides
ABSTRACT Focusing on the shadow education system of private supplementary tutoring, this paper contains comparisons over time and place in the distinctive circumstances of the Soviet Union and the 15 independent countries that emerged following its collapse in 1991. The paper uses the lenses of politics and economics to understand changing tides in the
Mark Bray, Tatiana Mikhaylova
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Biopolitical Borders and the Political Economy of Migration Flows to and From Türkiye
ABSTRACT This study examines the biopolitical borders of Türkiye. On the one hand, Türkiye deserves attention as a destination country that received millions of Syrian asylum seekers after the outbreak of the war in Syria and hundreds of thousands of migrants from other surrounding countries since the early 2010s.
Mehmet Özyürek
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Disparities in cancer clinical trials among low‐ and middle‐income countries: A 20‐year analysis
Abstract Background There are suspected disparities in clinical research (CR) development among low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). This study investigated differences in number and complexity of clinical trials (CTs) and how economic growth (EG) might contribute to these disparities.
Fanny G. A. Cascelli +6 more
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Unpacking the Regulatory Ambiguity Mechanism: Implications for Industry‐Level Digital Transformation
ABSTRACT The relationship between digital transformation and regulation is complex and bidirectional: regulation both drives and responds to changes in the technology landscape. Moreover, regulatory efforts to shape industry‐level digital transformation often produce unwanted outcomes.
Karin Väyrynen +4 more
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A cross‐country analysis and comparison of the technical efficiency of higher education systems
Abstract The study of the performance of primary and secondary educational institutions has gained popularity in recent years, but cross‐country evaluations of higher education (HE) systems remain rare. This study aims to fill this gap by assessing the technical efficiency (TE) of 87 national HE systems using stochastic production frontier models.
Julio del Corral +3 more
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