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Beyond Borders
Beyond Borders

States have long denied basic rights to non-citizens within their borders, and international law imposes only limited duties on states with respect to those fleeing persecution. But even the limited rights previously enjoyed by non-citizens ar [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108914994
Type: Books
The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes
The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes

Introduction Trapped in the Language of Democratization The Inadequacy of Existing Models for the Post-Communist Region The Multi-Dimensional Analytical Framework: Spanning Conceptual Spaces How It’s Made: The Construction of a Conceptual Tool [...]

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DOI: https://www.postcommunistregimes.com/
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Bread, Cement, Cactus
Bread, Cement, Cactus

Description: In this exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the places in India from which she derives her sense of identity. She looks back on the now renamed city of her birth and the impossibility of belonging in the in [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886932
Type: Books
The African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights in Context: Development and Challenges.
The African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights in Context: Development and Challenges.

Abstract: The treaty creating the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights, if and when it comes into force, contains innovative elements that have potentially significant implications for current substantive and procedural appro [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108525343
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Taxes and Trust: From Coercion to Compliance in Poland, Russia and Ukraine.
Taxes and Trust: From Coercion to Compliance in Poland, Russia and Ukraine.

Description: Taxes and Trust is the first book on taxes to focus on trust and the first work of social science to concentrate on how tax policy actually gets implemented on the ground in Poland, Russia and Ukraine. It highlights the nuances of [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333580
Type: Books
Oral Democracy: Deliberation in Indian Village Assemblies
Oral Democracy: Deliberation in Indian Village Assemblies

Abstract: Oral Democracy studies citizens' voices in civic and political deliberations in India's gram sabhas (village assemblies), the largest deliberative institution in human history. It analyses nearly three hundred transcripts of gram sab [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139095716
Type: Books
Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803–1956
Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803–1956

Description: Through an examination of the creation of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, Pritipuspa Mishra explores the ways regional languages came to serve as the most acceptable registers of difference in post-co [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108591263
Type: Books
Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana
Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana

Description: Knowing Women is a study of same-sex desire in West Africa, which explores the lives and friendships of working-class women in southern Ghana who are intimately involved with each other. Based on in-depth research of the life hist [...]

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DOI: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/knowing-women/0EEF984E4BEEE02AC7258F48A6760794
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Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Abstract: Iran has one of the world's highest rates of drug addiction: estimated to be between 2 and 7 percent of the entire population. This makes the questions that this book asks all the more salient: what is the place of illegal substances [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108567084
Type: Books