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View article: The Ambiguities and Vagaries of Popular Control: Trust and Parochial Corruption in Early Modern England
The Ambiguities and Vagaries of Popular Control: Trust and Parochial Corruption in Early Modern England Open
Over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and across Britain’s empire, the idea took hold that a public office was a fiduciary trust, with legally and rhetorically enforceable duties of accountability, selflessness, and duty of care. …
View article: Sponsorship marketing of European countries in the conditions of martial law in Ukraine
Sponsorship marketing of European countries in the conditions of martial law in Ukraine Open
Introduction. In the conditions of war in Ukraine, the assistance of European states is invaluable. The sponsorship, being a synthetic marketing communication, becomes a key means of ensuring the image of states and positioning in the glob…
View article: Bribery in Baroda: The Politics of Corruption in Nineteenth-Century India
Bribery in Baroda: The Politics of Corruption in Nineteenth-Century India Open
Two nineteenth-century cases in the Gujarati princely state of Baroda shed light on the politics of corruption. The first, running from the mid-1830s to mid-1850s, centred on allegations about the corrupt influence (known as 'khutput') of …
View article: The long-term consequences of the English revolution : politics, political thought and the constitution
The long-term consequences of the English revolution : politics, political thought and the constitution Open
This chapter argues that the second revolution of the seventeenth century, triggered by the invasion of William of Orange in 1688, should be seen as conceptually yoked to the first revolution of the 1640s and 1650s. The two revolutions sho…