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Captives at Large: On the Political Economy of Human Containment in the Sahara 被囚禁者：撒哈拉地区人类遏制的政治经济学

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Politics & Society Pub Date : 2021-05-20 DOI: 10.1177/00323292211014373

J. Brachet, J. Scheele

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引用次数: 2

Volte-Face on the Welfare State: Social Partners, Knowledge Economies, and the Expansion of Work-Family Policies 福利国家的大变脸:社会伙伴、知识经济和工作-家庭政策的扩展

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Politics & Society Pub Date : 2021-05-19 DOI: 10.1177/00323292211014371

Ø. Skorge, M. Rasmussen

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引用次数: 8

Delegated Censorship: The Dynamic, Layered, and Multistage Information Control Regime in China 委托审查：中国动态、分层、多阶段的信息控制制度

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Politics & Society Pub Date : 2021-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/00323292211013181

Taiyi Sun, Quansheng Zhao

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引用次数: 11

Post-Keynesian Macroeconomic Foundations for Comparative Political Economy 比较政治经济学的后凯恩斯宏观经济基础

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Politics & Society Pub Date : 2021-04-15 DOI: 10.1177/00323292211006562

Engelbert Stockhammer

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引用次数: 27

Skill-Biased Liberalization: Germany’s Transition to the Knowledge Economy 技能偏向自由化:德国向知识经济的转型

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Politics & Society Pub Date : 2021-04-13 DOI: 10.1177/00323292211006563

Sebastian Diessner, Niccolo Durazzi, D. Hope

引用次数: 16

Tracing Settler Colonialism: A Genealogy of a Paradigm in the Sociology of Knowledge Production in Israel 追溯定居者殖民主义：以色列知识生产社会学的一个范式谱系

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Politics & Society Pub Date : 2021-03-15 DOI: 10.1177/0032329221999906

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury

引用次数: 28

Quiet Politics, Trade Unions, and the Political Elite Network: The Case of Denmark* 安静的政治、工会和政治精英网络:丹麦的案例*

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Politics & Society Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/0032329220985748

C. Ibsen, C. Ellersgaard, Anton Grau Larsen

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引用次数: 4

From Quiet to Noisy Politics: Transformations of Swiss Business Elites’ Power* 从安静到喧嚣的政治:瑞士商业精英权力的转变*

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Politics & Society Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/0032329220985693

André Mach, Thomas David, Stéphanie Ginalski, F. Bühlmann

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引用次数: 11

Quiet Politics and the Power of Business: New Perspectives in an Era of Noisy Politics* 安静的政治与商业的力量：嘈杂政治时代的新视角*

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Politics & Society Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/0032329220985749

G. Morgan, C. Ibsen

引用次数: 10

Voting for Your Pocketbook, but against Your Pocketbook? A Study of Brexit at the Local Level 为你的钱包投票，但反对你的钱包?英国脱欧在地方层面的研究

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Politics & Society Pub Date : 2021-02-25 DOI: 10.1177/0032329221992198

Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni, Max Kiefel, Javier José Olivas Osuna

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引用次数: 6