Delegitimizing, corruptive crises by Ángel R. Oquendo

“…Ultimately, the very survival of the polity may be at stake. This paper deals with these issues, but at a rather specific conceptual level. …”
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The formation problem of the Tatar class in the Kazan Khanate (specific historical and theoretical aspects) by Iskhakov D.M.

“…The purpose of the study: Despite the publication of a significant number of works on the history of the Kazan Khanate, including the rethinking of old approaches to the study of the feudal class of this state, directly related to the Golden Horde Tatars, the problem of the formation and development of this state-forming stratum, which ascended in the Kazan yurt to the Tatars of Bulgar Vilayet Ulus Jochi, is still far from a final consensus. …”
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Diversité et évolution des capitalismes en Amérique latine. De la régulation économique au politique by Robert Boyer

“…The polity becomes dominant during structural crises, as evidenced by Argentina after 2001. …”
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THE ALBANIAN FACTOR OF DESTABILIZATION OF THE WESTERN BALKANS: SCENARIO APPROACH by E. G. Ponomareva

“…In the first case the question is of creating a pan-Albanian (con)federative polity under the provisional name of “Great Albania” in the territories of Albania, Kosovo, western Macedonia (Republic of Ilirida), south-eastern Montenegro (Malesia) and north-western Greece (Chameria). …”
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East Asian Welfare Regimes 東アジア福祉制度 by Joseph Wong, Andrew DeWit, Ito Peng

“…These latter countries are adopting this rather counterintuitive (considering the “Asian values” culturalist emphasis on communitarianism in East Asia) approach due to restricted fiscal capacity in the central state and the lack of credibility for communitarian ideology in what are highly diverse polities.All the countries in East Asia confront rapid ageing as well as the challenge from cheap labor in the other developing countries. …”
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The Impact of Ecoregional Mobilization on Mountain Policies in the Swiss Alps and California’s Sierra Nevada by Jörg Balsiger

“…Mountain regions have occupied a significant role in the political evolution, economic history, and sociocultural imaginary of Switzerland and California, yet the emergence of the modern state and the global economy have meant their increasing marginalization. …”
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L’impact de la mobilisation écorégionale sur les politiques en matière de montagne dans les Alpes suisses et la Sierra Nevada en Californie by Jörg Balsiger

“…Mountain regions have occupied a significant role in the political evolution, economic history, and sociocultural imaginary of Switzerland and California, yet the emergence of the modern state and the global economy have meant their increasing marginalization. …”
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Was Grand Duchy of Lithuania a Federation? by Zenonas Norkus

“…While most medieval polities were transformed into sovereign territorial states and Westphalian empires in the early modern time, GDL was unique in following the path of federalization. …”
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Território no mundo A’uwe Xavante by Maria Lucia Cereda Gomide

“…On the other hand, the indigenous land is a category created by the legal-political process of the State. Therefore a conflict arises from the contact between the indigenous people and the surrounding society, since there are different spatial logics in confrontation.…”
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Die Individualisme-kollektivismedimensie van kulturele variasie by Frederick Terblanche

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Exploratory study of nocebo effect in senior medical students by Charalampos Pischos, Antonios Politis, Petros Sfikakis, Charalampos Papageorgiou

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Curcumin as a Therapeutic Agent in Dementia: A Mini Systematic Review of Human Studies by Natascia Brondino, Simona Re, Annalisa Boldrini, Antonella Cuccomarino, Niccolò Lanati, Francesco Barale, Pierluigi Politi

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Real-Time Quality Monitoring and Anomaly Detection for Vision Sensors in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles by Elena Politi, Charalampos Davalas, Christos Chronis, George Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrios Michail, Iraklis Varlamis

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Hedging by the Gaya Confederacy of Korea: Historical Lessons for Contemporary East Asia? by Brendan M HOWE

“…He argues that, like the polities of the Gaya confederacy, contemporary second-tier states in the Asia-Pacific should cooperate closely, with the common objective of navigating the US–China rivalry. …”
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Eduquer le désir : Foucault, Freud et les sexualités impériales by Ann Stoler

“…Here I review some recent trends in imperial historiography and contrast them to the sexual politics of colonial states to suggest that sexual desires were structured by desires and discourses that were never about sex alone. …”
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El sistema judicial indígena como expresión de complejidad política (Pampas y Patagonia norte, mediados del siglo xix) by Juan Francisco Jiménez, Sebastián L. Alioto

“…This article aims to make a contribution to that discussion, in trying to demonstrate, through sources corresponding to different native groups of the area, that, since the second decade of the 19th century, a tendency towards political centralization can be perceived, which will result in the emergence of polities of the kind of chieftaincies (in the sense stated by Robert Carneiro, consisting in organizations that have a permanent centralized leadership above other levels). …”
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Blood levels of cytokines highlight the role of inflammation in Alzheimer's disease by Lorenzo Campanelli, Pablo Galeano, Federico A. Prestia, Carolina Cuesta, Maria C. Dalmasso, María Flores-López, Cristian Gona, Nicolás Irureta, Claudia Kairiyama, Julieta Lisso, Antonio Jesús López-Gambero, Ines Mintz, Nancy Medel, Karen S. Campuzano, Carolina Muchnik, Gisela V. Novack, Natividad Olivar, Ivana Quiroga, Nerea Requena-Ocaña, Jose Antonio Reyes-Bueno, Pedro Serrano-Castro, Zulma Sevillano, Patricia Solis, Juan Suárez, Ivana Villella, Nancy Wukitsevits, Eduardo M. Castaño, Fernando Taragano, Silvia Kochen, Daniel G. Politis, Luis I. Brusco, Fernando Rodríguez de Fonseca, Laura Morelli

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The Convergence Coefficient across Political Systems by Maria Gallego, Norman Schofield

“…In the majoritarian polities of the United States and Great Britain, the centrifugal tendency is very low. …”
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