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Agro‐Industrial Enclosures: Food Security, Land Consolidation and Rural Displacement in China

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines rural enclosures for industrialized agriculture as a window into the local political economy and territorial politics underlying projects of agricultural modernization. In recent years, agro‐industrial parks with ‘characteristic’ industries have proliferated in China as the government viewed it as a technical solution to ...
Karita Kan
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

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

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
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The Coptic Church in the Aftermath of the Second Vatican Council: Theological or Tactical Anti‐Judaism?

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 667-685, July 2026.
Abstract Vatican II's declaration on the Jews, absolving them from collective guilt of deicide, marked a significant turning point in Catholic theology. Arab governments tended to perceive this development as evidence that Catholics (or Christians generally) were taking the side of Zionist Jews in the Arab‐Israeli conflict.
Amir Krispel
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

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
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Democratisation By Default? Change and Continuity of Poland's Contemporary Democracy Promotion in Its Eastern Neighbourhood

open access: yesContemporary European Politics, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Following a breakdown in the post‐1989 liberal consensus that governed Polish democracy promotion in its eastern neighbours under Law and Justice's term from 2015, we can expect policy changes to Polish democracy promotion. Paying tribute to historical explanations of Poland's democracy promotion, this article links the historical legacies of ...
Wicke van den Broek
wiley   +1 more source

Re-visiting the roots of Japan's structural decline: the role of the Japanese corporation [PDF]

open access: yes
For a long period in the twentieth century, the development of the Japanese corporation appeared congruent with the development of the Japanese economy.
Cowling, Keith, Tomlinson, Phil
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