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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

open access: yes
We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and the number of ...
Andrea Guerzoni, Graziella Bertocchi
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Les mégaprojets hydriques de l’ouest étasunien : histoire d’État(s) et gestion des ressources naturelles

open access: yesVertigO, 2016
This paper proposes a complementary approach to the existing works on the history of water policies in the West of the USA. We defend the idea that the history of Western Water is not fully explained by the hegemony of elites, nor is it the result of the
Joan Cortinas   +3 more
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Russian Higher Education in China

open access: yesВопросы образования, 2015
In the first half of the 20th century, Russian emigrants in China created a network of higher education institutions based on the Russian pre-revolutionary education system.
Amir Khisamutdinov
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Zoological museums and mammal collections in Kyiv for the last two centuries: history, values, and prospects

open access: yesGeo&Bio, 2022
The history of formation, development, and transformations of mammal collections in Kyiv in the 19th–21st centuries is considered. A description of the history of formation of key natural history museums and the presence in them of scientific collections
Igor Zagorodniuk
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Church and Politics in Ukraine: Relationship Issues

open access: yesУкраїнське Pелігієзнавство, 2008
An unbiased analysis of the history of the coexistence of church institutions and politics in any state shows that the chronicle of such coexistence appears, in large part, as a history of attempts to use, with greater or lesser success, on the one hand,
Valeriy Volodymyrovych Klymov
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From Memory Conflicts to the Demarcation of Cultural Memory: Teschen Silesia One Hundred Years After Division

open access: yesZeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Prace Etnograficzne, 2023
The aim of the paper is to analyse a specific case of transformation of communicative memories into cultural memories under the influence of state institutions in Teschen Silesia [Cieszyn Silesia ...
Jan Kajfosz
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LEGAL REGULATION OF CONTROL AND SUPERVISION OF NON-BANKING FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Economic Studies, 2022
The purpose of the article is to distinguish between the regulatory and legal approaches to the interpretation of the definitions of "supervision" and "control"; to establish the general purpose of control and supervision over the activities of non-bank ...
Volodymyr Buha   +2 more
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Distributed Access to Oral History collections: Fitting Access Technology to the needs of Collection Owners and Researchers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In contrast with the large amounts of potential interesting research material in digital multimedia repositories, the opportunities to unveil the gems therein are still very limited.
Jong, Franciska de, Ordelman, Roeland
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Russian Representative Institutions of the 16th-17th Centuries in the European Context: A Historiographical Perspective

open access: yesStudia Historica: Historia Moderna, 2015
The article deals with the history of the origins and development of Zemsky Sobors – Russian representative institutions, their main features and differences from corresponding bodies in Western Europe.
Vladislav Dmítrievich NAZÁROV   +2 more
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Byzantine Studies in Volgograd. An Excursion into History and Bibliography

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2020
The proposed essay is a publication of bibliographic information about scientific works (dissertations, monographs, collections of scientific articles, periodicals) concerning the Byzantine history and published in Volgograd or with the direct ...
Nikolay D. Barabanov   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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