Browsing Øvrige samlinger by Author "Bull, Benedicte"
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Bull, Benedicte (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)From its very incipient form, the environmental critique of ‘development’ understood as modernization, industrialization and economic growth, was accompanied by a critique of the state as a modernizing actor. The main ...
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Bull, Benedicte; Aguilar-Støen, Mariel (Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)The topic of elites has always been controversial in Latin American social sciences. Elites have been studied indirectly as landowners, capitalists, business-leaders or politicians, and have also been approached directly ...
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Bull, Benedicte; Banik, Dan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)China is now a major actor in global development and wields considerable influence in large parts of the world. The success of the Chinese development model has not only challenged the notion that democracy is necessary ...
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Bull, Benedicte; Rosales, Antulio; Sutherland, Manuel (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Deterioration and absence of bureaucracy: The situation of public employees in Venezuela from a state capacity perspective
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Bull, Benedicte; Sánchez, Francisco (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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Bull, Benedicte; Sánchez, Francisco (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)In spite of the large number of studies of populism, few have discussed the relationship between populism and different types of elites, apart from showing the antielitism of the discourse that characterizes populist ...
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Bull, Benedicte; McNeill, Desmond (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Business has been involved in cooperation with multilateral organizations through public-private partnerships (PPPs) since the late 1990s. With their adoption of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), multilateral ...
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Bull, Benedicte; Rosales, Antulio (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)After a deterioration of democratic conditions in Venezuela, in 2017 the United States intensified its sanctions imposed on the regime of Nicolás Maduro. The sanctions failed to topple the regime, but they accelerated the ...
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Bull, Benedicte; Rosales, Antulio (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article studies the effects of sanctions on different economic sectors in Venezuela, framed as a rentier capitalist state. We analyse four sectors: hydrocarbons, agriculture, manufacturing, and what we call “emerging ...
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Bull, Benedicte; Castellacci, Fulvio; Kasahara, Yuri (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)Central America as a region has made world headlines mainly due to civil wars, insurgencies, and, more recently, drug-trafficking and youth gang violence. Central American enterprises are only rarely studied; even less so ...
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Bull, Benedicte; Kasahara, Yuri (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Este artículo presenta resultados de un estudio sobre las estrategias de los Grupos Empresariales Diversificados (GED) centroamericanos en frente a la globalización. Busca comprender cómo estos han cambiado en el proceso ...
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Banik, Dan; Bull, Benedicte (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)During the global COVID-19 crisis, China has portrayed itself as a “champion of multilateralism” – defending UN institutions and its own multilateral initiatives in a variety of spheres. China’s approach has, however, often ...
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Bull, Benedicte (Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)En vårkveld i 2011 stod ikke mindre enn fem ministre samtidig på podiet på Litteraturhuset. De overgikk hverandre i superlativer for å beskrive betydningen av samarbeidet med et latinamerikansk land. Anledningen var ...
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Bull, Benedicte; Hoelscher, Kristian (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)The COVID-19 pandemic had severe impacts in Latin America, with small businesses intensely affected. Beyond its economic consequences, the pandemic also exacerbated structural flaws in some of the region's weakly ...
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Bull, Benedicte; Sæther, Steinar; Bye, Vegard; Krøvel, Roy; Aguilar-Støen, Mariel; Stølen, Kristi Anne; Skaar, Elin; García-Godos, Jemima; Berntzen, Einar; Buck, Marcus; Marsteintredet, Leiv; Ekern, Stener (Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)¿Qué es lo que motiva a investigadores de las ciencias sociales de un país pequeño, periférico y lejano como Noruega a estudiar fenómenos sociales en América Latina? ¿En qué medida podemos decir que el pensamiento social ...
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Bull, Benedicte; Aguilar-Støen, Mariel (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Las protestas de los movimientos contra la industria extractiva, particularmente en Guatemala, han sido enfrentadas en la mayoría de los casos con respuestas violentas de parte del Gobierno y de las compañías mineras. El ...
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Sveinsdóttir, Anna Guðbjört; Aguilar-Støen, Mariel; Bull, Benedicte (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Guatemala is one of the most mining conflict prone countries in the world, with disproportionately high levels of violence accompanying the sector. Starting in the early 2000's, the rapid spread of mining projects throughout ...
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Bull, Benedicte (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability on 10 October 2014, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781315797106
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Bull, Benedicte; Rosales, Antulio (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)In this introduction, we present the main contributions of this special collection, which aim to open the analysis to the broader political and economic processes that underpin Venezuela’s recent crisis. We highlight the ...
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Bull, Benedicte (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)A common conclusion of studies on Central America’s democracies and political economy is that the weakness of institutions and the strength of elites are a main reason for the region’s problems. Recently, a set of studies ...