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ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
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The article provides an analysis of the document circulation that occurred during the period of Risorgimento as a result of the diplomatic relations between Italy, including the Vatican, and the Russian empire.
I.V. Dergacheva
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Re-membering Armenian Literature in the Soviet Borderlands [PDF]
This article focuses on Armenian literature during the Soviet period and engages with the varied responses of Armenian writers to the Soviet imperialism from its periphery, with a particular eye to poets like Hovhannes Shiraz and Eghishé Charents, who ...
Movsesian, Arpi
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How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War
Digitisation of herbarium collections is bringing greater understanding to bear on the complexity of narratives relating to the First World War and its aftermath – scientific and societal. Plant collecting during the First World War was more widespread than previously understood, contributed to the psychological well‐being of those involved and ...
Christopher Kreuzer, James A. Wearn
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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens
Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski +2 more
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Geologists of Russian origin in Latin America [PDF]
Se describe la vida y trayectoria de geólogos que más allá de su nacionalidad (rusa, ucraniana, tártara, alemana, etc.), nacieron en territorios que pertenecieron al Imperio Ruso, la Unión Soviética o la Federación Rusa, y de sus descendientes graduados ...
Alonso, Ricardo +7 more
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Abstract This article examines how online tutoring platforms (OTPs) have facilitated new forms of (im)mobility—and discourses of (im)mobility—among online English tutors. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with online tutors, the article critically interrogates OTPs' primary selling point: that online tutors can work “anytime, anywhere.” While OTPs ...
Nate Ming Curran
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The Genesis and Movement of Capitals of the Roman Catholic Clerical Collegium of the Russian Empire
The aim of managing monetary capitals, owned by the Roman Catholic Church in the Russian Empire, required taking a number of measures on their accumulation in Roman Catholic Clerical Collegium.
Andrey I. Ganchar
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Power Relationships between Russia, the Crimea and the Ottoman Empire as Reflected in Titulature [PDF]
The given articleis a Russian translation of the Turkish historian (Crimean Tatar origin) Halil Inalcik`s work “Power Relationships between Russia, the Crimea, and the Ottoman Empire as Reflected in Titulature”.
Halil Inalcik
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Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
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