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: the excluded elites are frequently tempted to use violence to come back into the "dining room" - and the excluding … government tries to prevent reentry by all means. This contribution draws a dense picture of elite (in)security in three African … countries (Central African Republic, Cote d'Ivoire and Liberia). A comparative analysis of elite security needs and devices is …
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Since the dawn of their prolific collaboration in 1998, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson have confronted a plethora of cardinal questions in social sciences: Which institutions support long-term growth (Acemoglu et al., 2005)? What economic conditions facilitate the consolidation of...
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"A crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others--and explains how it can continue to thrive despite new threats"--
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"From mining to sex work and from the classroom to the docks, violence has always been a part of work. This collection … of essays highlights the many different forms and expressions of violence that have arisen under capitalism in the last … two hundred years, as well as how historians of working-class life and labour have understood violence. The editors draw …
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