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Watching Radical Geography: Spaces and Practices of Authoritarian Surveillance in ‘Democratic’ and ‘Dictatorial’ Brazil

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Commercialization, Dedication to the Profession and Environmental Uncertainty: Georgian Auditors' Perspective

open access: yesInternational Journal of Auditing, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 1-20, January 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

A Privilege That Can Be Withdrawn: Regulation of Exit in Russia and Other Post‐Soviet Republics

open access: yesInternational Migration, Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Sufficiency Policy in Rural Municipalities: Measures, Enablers, and Barriers

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, Volume 35, Issue 6, Page 1086-1108, December 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Global Fields and Migration Regimes: Citizenship by Investment

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, Volume 76, Issue 5, Page 1014-1026, December 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Shadow Education in the Soviet and Post‐Soviet Eras: A Political‐Economic Analysis of Changing Tides

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 60, Issue 4, December 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Biopolitical Borders and the Political Economy of Migration Flows to and From Türkiye

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 25, Issue 3, Page 276-291, December 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Disparities in cancer clinical trials among low‐ and middle‐income countries: A 20‐year analysis

open access: yesCancer, Volume 131, Issue 21, 1 November 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Unpacking the Regulatory Ambiguity Mechanism: Implications for Industry‐Level Digital Transformation

open access: yesInformation Systems Journal, Volume 35, Issue 6, Page 1528-1564, November 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

A cross‐country analysis and comparison of the technical efficiency of higher education systems

open access: yesInternational Transactions in Operational Research, Volume 32, Issue 6, Page 3965-4007, November 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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