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The scientist and the church
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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New imperialism or new capitalism?
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
gets accumulated and the specific historical trajectory of twentieth-century capitalism up to the present. …
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Centralization of Decentralized Governance - Evidence from West Bengal Panchayat
Misra, Jaydev - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Democratic decentralization in the state of West Bengal, of its own, are not producing systems that are more effective or more accountable to local needs and interests. The formal mechanisms matter less than the informal institutions that underpin local political economies. And the understanding...
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Redistribution and Reelection under Proportional Representation: The Postwar Italian Chamber of Deputies
Golden, Miriam; Picci, Lucio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We study incumbency advantage and the electoral returns to pork and patronage over ten legislative periods from 1948 to … proportional representation, we show that parliament comprised two groups: a small elite, whose members enjoyed an incumbency … advantage, and the average deputy, who benefitted from no such incumbency advantage. Elite legislators affiliated with Italy …
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What Happens When a Woman Wins an Election? Evidence from Close Races in Brazil
Brollo, Fernanda; Troiano, Ugo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
municipal elections are approaching. These findings suggest that male mayors may promote more political patronage than female …
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Генезис цивитальной организации: идеология нового мира
Kaluzhsky, M.L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The monography considers laws and mechanisms of social development from positions of positivism, dialectic materialism and the theory of systems. The methodology of the author is based on causality in relations of a society and social institutes. Social development is considered as result of...
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From public offices to the cultural or economic sector. How Dutch nobility kept its elite positions during the 20th century.
Dronkers, J.; Schijf, H - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Dutch noble families have held more elite positions than high bourgeois families during the 20th century, and this … from public elite positions towards more elite positions in the cultural and business sector. Although this move into elite … position in other sectors does not fully compensate for the decline of elite positions in the public sector, it highlights an …
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The Family Business in Collectivist Societies: Traits and Implications
El Fasiki, Hamza - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
can have an important influence on the family business and the entrepreneurship it fosters. The term “collectivist society … Research and Studies at the Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, describes the impact of the …
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The Family Business in Collectivist Societies: Traits and Implications
El Fasiki, Hamza - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
can have an important influence on the family business and the entrepreneurship it fosters. The term “collectivist society … Research and Studies at the Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, describes the impact of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259607
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Disorganizing Organizational Culture: Comment on the Individual and Family Factors
El Fasiki, Hamza - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Defining culture in relation to organizational culture has also focused on the operation level of culture. This latter as discussed by Maurice Thévenet (1993) concludes that culture is a collective phenomenon that concerns an enterprise as a human organization. By this collective point of...
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