1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910476912203321

Autore

Czepil Bartosz <1981->

Titolo

Ethnic diversity and local governance quality : the case of Opole Province in Poland / / Bartosz Czepil, Wojciech Opioła

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bern, : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2020

Berlin : , : Peter Lang, , 2020

ISBN

3-631-81709-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 pages)

Collana

Studies in politics, security and society ; ; 29

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Cultural pluralism

Opole (Poland : Powiat) Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The book is devoted to relations between the ethnic diversity and the quality of governance at the local level. Opolskie province in Poland is a case for explaining this interdependence. That is because of its history of multiculturalism and the present state of its ethnic diversity. The important feature of this region is, that nearly half of the communes is ethnically homogenous when the rest is ethnically diversified with a strong position of German and Silesian minorities. The preliminary assumption was, that the quality of governance would be higher in communes characterized by ethnic diversity. On the basis of the nested analysis method, authors conducted quantitative and qualitative analysis.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793650903321

Titolo

Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia : Encounters with Polish Literary Exiles / / Elizabeth A. Blake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-64469-023-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 pages)

Collana

Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History

Disciplina

891.733

Soggetti

Exiles' writings, Polish

Exiles' writings, Polish - History and criticism

Exiles - Russia (Federation) - Siberia, Western

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- 1. A Siberian Memoir about the Dead House -- 2. Omsk Affairs -- 3. Beyond Omsk -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Translations in Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia, gathered from archives and appearing in English for the first time, offer a fresh look at Dostoevsky's House of the Dead from the perspective of his fellow inmates and Siberians who were imprisoned, tortured, and exiled by the regime of Nicholas I. Drawing on archival resources and illustrations, introductory essays immerse the reader in the experience of the political prisoners who must navigate the criminal environment of verbal, physical, and sexual abuse by negotiating with inmates and authorities alike. These eyewitness accounts introduce the reader to Dostoevsky's unfortunates-condemned to share his experience of Russia's carceral system with its interrogations, denunciations, and hostile spaces-whose psychoses become the writer's obsession in his celebrated crime novels.