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Preserving the epistemic authority of science in world politics
Haas, Peter M. - 2018
durch Ideen und Miteinbeziehung von Experten erreicht. Dennoch ist Expertise in der Weltpolitik heutzutage immer häufiger … umstritten. Was sind die Faktoren, die die Staaten in Zukunft dazu bringen können, sich der Expertise in der Weltpolitik …
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Die Historizität fiktionaler Erwartungen
Beckert, Jens - 2017
Capitalist dynamics is energized in part by imaginaries of future states of the world (Beckert 2016). The paper deals with two questions: Why do fictional expectations change in the course of capitalist development? And: Are fictional expectations becoming more important in contemporary capitalism?
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Wissenschaftler auf Zeit: Die Durchsetzung der Personalpolitik der Befristung in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft seit den 1970er-Jahren
Leendertz, Ariane - 2020
Die Mehrheit des wissenschaftlichen Personals an den Hochschulen und außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtungen in Deutschland ist heute befristet beschäftigt. Der Beitrag rekonstruiert die Ursachen und Dynamiken dieser Entwicklung, die in den 1970er-Jahren begann, am Gegenstand der...
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Autocracy and the public: Mass revolts, winning coalitions, and policy control in dictatorships
Apolte, Thomas - 2015
Threats of mass revolts could effectively constrain a dictator's public policy if it were not for the collective-action problem. Mass revolts nevertheless happen, but they follow a stochastic pattern. We describe this pattern in a threshold model of collective action and integrate it into an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341087
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Women's Political Participation and Intrahousehold Empowerment: Evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring
Bargain, Olivier; Boutin, Delphine; Champeaux, Hugues - 2018
Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women's perception about their own rights and role. We question whether these events have translated into better outcomes within Egyptian households. We conjecture that potential changes...
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State crisis theory: A systematization of institutional, socio-ecological, demographicstructural, world-systems, and revolutions research
Hartley, Tilman - 2023
-systems approaches, and revolutions research. I begin by establishing that each of these five traditions proposes to explain state crisis …
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Political Settlements and Development: Theory, Evidence, Implications
Kelsall, Tim; Schulz, Nicolai; Ferguson, William D.; … - 2022
Few concepts have captured the imagination of the conflict and development communities in recent years as powerfully as the idea of a 'political settlement'. At its most ambitious, 'political settlements analysis' (PSA) promises to explain why conflicts occur and states collapse, the conditions...
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Symbolic revolutions. Mobilizing a neglected Bourdieusian concept for historical sociology
Petzke, Martin - In: Theory and Society 51 (2021) 3, pp. 487-510
historical-sociological analysis. It draws attention to symbolic revolutions, a concept that has been given short shrift in this … revolutions denote a universal mechanism of field-internal change which extends and complements a conceptual battery of mostly … type of symbolic revolutions, with special regard to its dialectical features. It adds further analytical purchase to the …
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Toward a more general approach to political stability in comparative political systems
Apolte, Thomas - 2012
This paper provides a general framework for analyzing political (in)stability in comparative political systems. It distinguishes different subgroups of a society, some of which have a potential for pursuing a redistribution of wealth in its broadest sense via constitutional or non-constitutional...
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Determinants of revolt: Evidence from survey and laboratory data
Abbink, Klaus; Pezzini, Silvia - 2005
This paper examines determinants of revolutionary behaviour. We study the role of freedom of communication, repression of opposition and the government's selfishness. Combining econometric analysis of survey data with a laboratory experiment, we analyse how these factors affect preferences for...
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