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Interpersonal Connections and Career Mobility in Bureaucratic Labor Markets: Evidence From Brazil
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Interpersonal networks are pervasive in state bureaucracies around the world. To what extent do they explain bureaucratic career trajectories? And are they driven more by political patronage and connections to influential bosses, or by information‐sharing and trust‐building among peers?
Danilo Cardoso +6 more
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From Expansion to Erosion: The Global Trajectory of Judicial Independence, 1960–2018
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Judicial independence expanded globally throughout the twentieth century, but this trajectory has recently come under pressure. In recent years, governments around the world have increasingly challenged judicial autonomy. This study unpacks this global reversal by analyzing data from 156 states between 1960 and 2018.
Nir Rotem
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The Leaner, Meaner State—And What It Means for Society
Sociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 277-288, June 2026.ABSTRACT Populism is an old phenomenon but one which appears to once again be in ascendance globally. Attributing a nation's problems to a wicked elite, populists seek to dismantle the old order and either remove or repurpose its institutions. This paper explores how populism changes economic governance and particularly, how its emphasis on fighting ...
Christopher A. Hartwell
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.ABSTRACT Even in Eastern Europe, whiteness organises space, race, class and environmental justice research. Inspired by whiteness theory, we draw on a case of environmental injustice affecting the Roma community of Dăroaia—a segregated neighbourhood in Roșia Montană—in the context of the mining conflict over the eponymous gold mine.
Oana Rusu +5 more
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Turnout and Invalid Voting in Brazilian Municipal Elections: A Runoff Voting System Tale
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Volume 73, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper assesses the impact of Brazil's hybrid mayoral voting system on voters' choices and examines the shift in blank, null, and turnout between the first and second rounds. Using fixed‐effects and RDD techniques over 5570 municipalities between 2000 and 2020, this study shows that runoff voting generates more abstention and invalid ...
Vítor Castro +2 more
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, 2022 Este estudio tiene por objeto aportar elementos de análisis respecto de un tema que es recurrente en los tribunales electorales de nuestro país. Hablo de la tutela de derechos político-electorales, cuya materia refiere violaciones a los derechos de ser
MUÑIZ BAEZA, HÉCTOR EDUARDO
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Compulsory voting increases men's turnout most
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 2, Page 555-570, April 2026.Abstract Equal turnout fosters equal representation. As such, researchers have long sought to understand what causes gender differences in voter participation. I argue that compulsory voting increases men's turnout relative to that of women. This is because men are particularly receptive to external incentives, while women are more intrinsically ...
Shane P. Singh
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Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the institutionalisation of indigeneity in Bolivia under the governments of Evo Morales (2006–2019) as a central component of the MAS project of crafting state hegemony. We trace the emergence of what we call the indio institucionalizado from the social mobilisations of the 1990s and 2000s through the Constitutional ...
Aiko Ikemura Amaral, Angus McNelly
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Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue S1, Page S42-S55, April 2026.Abstract Using the amnesty introduced by the Boris Johnson government designed to protect British army veterans who served in Northern Ireland as a case study, this article examines the intersection between law, politics and the legacy of conflict. The article first offers an account of the amnesty's genesis and traces the evolution and deployment of ...
KIERAN MCEVOY
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Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT The Great Depression was a turning point in the development of social programming in North America. This paper explores the politics of social policy expansion during the Great Depression in the United States and Canada through an analytical lens that combines the insights of historical institutionalism and the analysis of transnational ...
Daniel Béland +2 more
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