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Electrifying the green peace? Electrification, conservation and conflict in Eastern Congo Ghent University
Re-Evaluating the Political Press Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article attempts to re-assess the often negative evaluations of the political press, through a detailed analysis of a case study from inter-war Czechoslovakia, the newspaper Národní listy, and its publishing company the Prague Stock Printery (PAT), which were affiliated to the National Democratic Party. The analysis is theoretically framed by a discussion of notions of party-press parallelism and political parallelism, and how these ...
A miner’s canary in eastern Congo : formalisation of artisanal 3T mining and precarious livelihoods in South Kivu Ghent University
Towards ISEW and GPI 2.0 : dealing with cross-time and cross-boundary issues in a case study for Belgium Ghent University
Scholars have long had difficulties when dealing with cross-time and cross-boundary issues in the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) and Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI). This case study for Belgium is the very first that tackles these complexities by calculating two ISEW-variants with distinct time and boundary perspectives that are based on Fisherian or Hicksian income. Experiential welfare looks at what is currently experienced ...
Political settlements and the historical development of sand governance in Morocco Ghent University
Discussions on sand in Morocco often centre on illegal extraction by sand mafias. This article aims to understand the historical formation of sand extraction near Rabat and the interrelation between legal and illegal extraction. Using a political settlements framework, we aim to contribute to the literature on sand governance. We show how the development of legal frameworks for sand extraction have been closely tied to political settlements and ...
The in/visible wombs of the market : the dialectics of waged and unwaged reproductive labour in the global surrogacy industry Ghent University
Operationalizing heterogeneity in poststructuralist discourse theory : the heterogeneous logics of international trade politics Ghent University
Organized Labor and Depression in Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel University of Antwerp
Despite engagement with the construct of power relations, research on the political economy of health has largely overlooked organized labor as a determinant of well-being. Grounded in the theory of power resources, our study aims to fill this gap by investigating the link between country-level union density and mental health while accounting for the compositional effects of individual-level union membership. We use three waves of the ...
Fiscal rules and budget forecast errors of Italian municipalities Ghent University
We study the impact of the domestic stability pact on the accuracy of budget forecasts of Italian municipalities. Identification of the causal effect exploits a quasi-natural experiment generated by the removal in 2001 of the fiscal restraints on budget decisions for municipalities with fewer than 5000 inhabitants and by stricter budgetary restrictions and severe penalties for noncompliers in 2002. We find that relaxing fiscal rules had a ...