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The Frontiersmen as an Object of Czech Nationalism 1918–1935

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the phenomenon of the frontiersmen, that is, the Czech minority border communities, as a part of the discourse of the Czech nationalist movement. Via the example of the Czechoslovak National Democracy party, it traces the frontiersmen on two levels.
Dominik Šípoš
wiley   +1 more source

The Politics of Social Care in Japan: How Central–Local Interactions Shaped Child Allowances and Elderly Medical Care

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 606-616, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines why Japan's social care reforms of the early 1970s led to a generous elderly care system but only modest and narrowly targeted support for children. Although child allowances and free medical care for the elderly were introduced almost simultaneously, they followed sharply divergent paths.
Ryotaro Takahashi
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom

open access: yesTeaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
wiley   +1 more source

STATE AND LAW IN THE CONTEXT OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION: CHALLENGES OF THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Economic Studies
The article provides a thorough analysis of the economic transformation of the state and law during a period of transition. It reveals the transitional period to be a regular stage of societal development combining political, legal and economic changes.
Liliia Matvieieva   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Amid the ruins: the reconstruction of Smolensk Oblast, 1943-1953

open access: yes, 2018
The first Red Army soldiers that entered Smolensk in the fall of 1943 were met with a bleak landscape. The town was now an empty shell and the countryside a vast wasteland.
Gray, Travis Michael
core   +1 more source

Infrastructure expansion, tourism and electoral outcomes

open access: yesEconomica, Volume 93, Issue 371, Page 757-776, July 2026.
Abstract This paper examines the electoral impact of economic growth through increased foreign tourism using data from Croatia. To identify causal effects, the paper applies an instrumental variable strategy, which uses variation in the ruggedness of the local terrain to estimate the network of least‐cost paths.
Adrian Mehic
wiley   +1 more source

‘ZWISCHEN DEN ZEILEN’: A CLOSE READING OF STEFANIE‐LAHYA AUKONGO'S NEUROQUEER POETRY

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 365-383, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the multimodal poetry of Stefanie‐Lahya Aukongo (b. 1978) through the framework of neuroqueer theory (e.g. Nick Walker, M. Remi Yergeau), showing how her poetic practice exposes and destabilises socially constructed norms of neurotypicality.
Catherine Smale
wiley   +1 more source

The Unionist Party and the First World War

open access: yes, 2005
PhDFilling the historiographical gap created by an overemphasis upon its rival Liberal and Labour parties, this study analyses the part played by the war in shaping Unionist (later Conservative) fortunes between 1914-18.
Keohane, Nigel Thomas
core  

Luigi Pasinetti and Adolph Lowe: Bridging Capital Theory and Institutional Analysis

open access: yesMetroeconomica, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 265-273, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the convergence of Luigi Pasinetti's and Adolph Lowe's political economy, linking capital theory, institutions, and normative methodology. Pasinetti's two‐stage approach and Lowe's instrumental method share a common emphasis on the structural requirements and institutional arrangements for attaining and maintaining full ...
Michael J. Murray
wiley   +1 more source

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