Régionalisation et développement régional en Anatolie du Sud-est : réflexions autour de la région Diyarbakır-Şanlıurfa by Benoit Montabone

“…The new established agencies are a tool for local elites to constitute a regional growth coalition in order to enhance the region’s competitiveness. …”
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Le mahdi Ibn Tûmart et al-Andalus : l'élaboration de la légitimité almohade by Maribel Fierro

“…It is of special relevance when the aim is to renovate society and to eliminate old politico-religious elites and create new ones. Mahdism might be seen as the continuation of the model khalifat Allâh, i. e., the ruler as delegate or representative of God on earth, a model that was preserved by the Shiites but which the Sunnites eventually discarded in favour of the model khalifat rasûl Allâh. …”
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Intercambiar en Mesoamérica durante el Epiclásico (600 a 900 d.C.): poder, prestigio y alteridad. Un análisis de la cultura material de Puebla-Tlaxcala y Morelos (México) by Juliette Testard

“…Within a context of ideological, social and political disruptions following the end of Teotihuacán, new elites of these cities in sporadic contact with those of distant societies exerted their power thanks to glorification of persons, exacerbation of military force and prestige acquired through distant interactions.…”
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Čechoslováci pod ochranou císaře: Strastiplná cesta Bedřicha Hildprandta a Ferdinanda Veverky do etiopského exilu by Jan Dvořáček

“…Description of Hildprandt ́s and Veverka ́s lives is very close to the contributions that analyse a declining position of social elites in Czechoslovakia after 1918, as well as to those inquiries focused on Czechoslovak emigration in Sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Big Brothers: hegemonía mediática en el proceso electoral de 2006 by Jorge Balderas Domínguez

“…Aborda también los vínculos de las dos principales empresas con las élites hegemónicas del país, ya sean éstas económicas o políticas, dependiendo la coyuntura histórica. …”
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Ce que peut la finance publique : la Caisse des dépôts actionnaire dans l’immobilier depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Raphaël Frétigny

“…From a historical perspective, this case reveals how the public shareholding is not transformed by a coherent general plan or a radical submission of the public financial elites to the standards of the financial market, but rather by small, sometimes contradictory steps by public actors in reaction to the economic and political context.…”
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Open Government in Authoritarian Regimes by Karl O’Connor, Saltanat Janenova, Colin Knox

“…The result is ‘half-open’ government in which the more benign elements have been adopted but the vested interests of government and business elites remain largely unaffected.…”
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Congresos criminológicos internacionales y su impacto en los códigos penales de América Latina (1870–1945) by Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta

“…It focuses on the particular role that these congresses played as tools for the universalization of norms and in the production of modes of subjectivity based on a racist social classification, which was widely accepted by Latin American elites.Thus, the presence of the Latin American delegations in these congresses gave rise to theoretical frameworks for social control and transnational criminal law regimes. …”
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Conditional Populist Party Support: The Role of Dissatisfaction and Incumbency by Nina Wiesehomeier, Saskia Ruth-Lovell, Matthew Singer

“…Populists emerge when distrust of state institutions or dissatisfaction with democracy convince voters that claims about conspiring elites blocking the general will are valid. We propose that these dynamics change when populists are incumbents; once they command institutions, their sustained support becomes contingent upon trust in the new institutional order, and they are held accountable for making people think democracy is working well. …”
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Political Cataclysms at the Start of the Century and the Future of the International Relations System by A. V. Korobkov

“…Meanwhile, the Western, and especially the European elites refuse to recognize the scale and the potential consequences of these processes. …”
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ABD’de Yükselen Popülist Dalga ve Trumpizm: Neoliberal Küreselleşme, Ekonomik Kriz, Siyasetin İşlevsizleşmesi ve Elitizme Karşı Bir Geri Tepki mi? by Ömer KURTBAĞ

“…Its main argument is that contemporary American populism shares the main traits of populism, such as anti-elitism, the rule of popular will, ideological confusion, and anti-pluralism. …”
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L’espace marin entre un pluralisme juridique et la sauvegarde du patrimoine à Henua ‘Enana / Fenua ‘Enata (îles Marquises) by Giacomo Nerici

“…In this contribution, the marine space in the Marquesas Islands (Henua ‘Enana / Fenua ‘Enata) is addressed by reflecting on the recent processes of heritage-making and “sustainable development” projects promoted in recent years by the political authorities and cultural elites of the archipelago. In short, an attempt will be made to highlight how the centrality of the sea is linked to a concern for island spaces and species and a need to preserve human activities and the cultural elements associated with them. …”
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Checks and Balances: The Concept and Its Implications for Corruption by Luciano Da Ros, Matthew M. Taylor

“…Using examples from Western democracies, we demonstrate that the concept of checks and balances is by itself an empty vessel, made effective only by “hard” factors such as the balance of political forces and “soft” factors such as the adherence of elites to particular behavioral norms. This does not mean that checks and balances cannot be useful, but rather that our assumptions about their precise utility may be misinformed: the relationship between checks and balances and curbing corruption is at best indirect.…”
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Le « marché aux putains » : économies sexuelles et dynamiques spatiales du Palais-Royal dans le Paris révolutionnaire by Clyde Plumauzille

“…The Palais-Royal enjoys a special place in the urban mythology of the Paris Galant, capital of pleasure and debauchery for European elites in the eighteenth-century. This sexual and economic enclave, a space exemplary of a new geography of sexual entertainment in major European cities, provides a window into the redefinition of the relationship between trade and sexuality at the turn of the century. …”
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Circulation et transnationalisation de dispositifs et de catégories socio-politiques. Les « transitions vers la démocratie » et la « disparition forcée » au Chili et en Espagne... by Paola Diaz

“…If the apparatus "transitions to democracy" was circulated from Spain to Latin America –among political elites– than the category of "forced disappearance" began being circulated among non-governmental organizations and associations of families of the “disappeared” (desaparecidos) in Latin America, by which it came into transnational use and was mobilized in Spain beginning in 2000. …”
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Hoc monimentum maesoleumque : les monuments funéraires dans le paysage des cités des Gaules et des Germanies romaines by Martial Monteil, William Van Andringa

“…The antique sources show that the aim of these monuments, the most ostentatious of which are mausoleums, was to perpetuate the memory of the elites who built them. They are clearly differentiated from burials from a legal point of view, they present diverse forms and are installed on the outskirts of towns or in the countryside, as shown by the cases presented here. …”
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Tierra y crédito en la diócesis de Guatemala a finales de la época colonial by Christophe Belaubre

“…A partir del ejemplo de la diócesis de Guatemala intentamos esbozar algunos elementos para medir el peso real de los censos en la economía colonial en el contexto de crisis económica que marcó el Reino a finales del siglo XVIII: ¿el peso de los censos pudo haber movilizado una parte de las elites criollas para construir un discurso anti-clerical?…”
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Constrained Choices: How Bosnian Communists Lost Their Party Before Losing the Elections by Muharemović Ensar

“…The critical importance of strategic decisions made by the ruling political elites under extreme time pressure proved to be a key factor in determining their ability to retain power. …”
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The Chinese way from the traditional ideal of “Xiao Kang” to the modern development model by M. Y. Zakharov

“…Special attention in the article has been paid to understanding the role of “Xiao Kang” in shaping the Chinese development model, using this ideal image to show the advantages of Chinese goods in domestic and foreign markets, positioning the Chinese internationally and creating a sense of exclusivity and elitism in the Chinese nation.…”
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Porosité des frontières spatiales, ambiguïté des frontières identitaires : le cas des cités-États swahili de l’archipel de Lamu (vers 1600-1800) by Thomas Vernet

“…Thus, beyond the legitimating discourse spread by the urban elites, it is shown that the porosity and fluidity of the territory of the coastal city-states mirrored the ambiguities of Swahili identity, which permeable and shifting nature should be admitted.…”
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