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CONSULTANCY STATE: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
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The Dynamics of Electoral Manipulation and Institutional Trust in Democracies: Election Timing, Blatant Fraud, and the Legitimacy of Governance. [PDF]

Public Opin Q
Higashijima M, Kadoya H, Yanai Y.
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Defining collective irrationality of COVID-19: shared mentality, mimicry, affective contagion, and psychosocial adaptivity. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Kaftanski W.
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PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
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Examining contraception-related discourse on social media after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Supreme Court decision: a textual analysis of user-generated content on X (formerly Twitter). [PDF]

Reprod Health
Ujah OI, Nnorom OC, Swomen HE.
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GOVERNING THE CLOUD: Infrastructural Statecraft and the Political Ecology of Digital Expansion in Oregon

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Oregon's wave of data center and semiconductor projects shows how cloud capitalism reorganizes resource systems and territorial governance. Examining Amazon, Google, and Intel, the article traces how fiscal incentives, utility programs, and land‐use instruments are recalibrated to secure hyperscale loads.
Justin Kollar
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Understanding the Decentralised School Food Procurement Model in Ghana Through the Lens of School Caterers: A Photovoice Study. [PDF]

Matern Child Nutr
Liguori J, Savy M, Laar A, Holdsworth M.
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Data management (and sharing) in neuroscience: balancing possible, practical and perfect solutions. [PDF]

Brain Commun
Spires-Jones TL.
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The game theory analysis of homestead use right circulation income distribution under the context of the separation of three powers. [PDF]

PLoS One
Wang J, Deng Y.
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Capital and the Family

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
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