The rural landscape of Eastern Iberia Iron Age : agricultural intensification and sociopolitical dynamics
This paper focuses on the rural landscape during the Iberian Iron Age in the Valencia Region (Eastern Spain). This paper deals with two main issues. The first is to integrate and analyze the results of archeological fieldwork to understand the systems of settlement and land-use intensification during the Iberian Iron Age. The second issue addresses socio-economic aspects related to changes in the observable spatial patterns. These processes are characterized by the dynamics of urbanization and emergence of Iberian Early States.
From local groups to early states: the development of complexity in protohistoric Catalonia
La recerca sobre la protohistoria de Catalunya s'ha fonamentat tradicionalment en la historia cultural, pero el treball dels darrers vint-i-cinc anys ha comencat a donar llum sobre aspectes crucials com el canvi social i la formacio de l'Estat arcaic. Aquest article es una visio general sobre aquests temes. S'hi analitza particularment el paper del creixement demografic com a element crucial del canvi social, pero tambe s'hi te en compte el paper que eventualment hi hagin pogut tenir els moviments de poblacio i el comerc colonial.
Deliberative Democracy and the Resource Curse: A Nationwide Experiment in Tanzania
Oil and gas discoveries in developing countries are often associated with short-sighted economic policies and, in response, calls to insulate resource management from populist impulses. We report on a randomized experiment testing methods to overcome this apparent tension between sound resource governance and democratic politics. Soon after Tanzania’s discovery of major natural gas reserves, we invited a nationally representative sample of voters to an intensive public deliberation of policy options featuring nationally recognized experts and small-group discussions. Democratic deliberation reinforced the public’s strong preference for rapid spending of gas revenues, but also increased support for various prudential and economically orthodox measures, including independent oversight of gas revenues, limits on government borrowing, and selling gas abroad rather than subsidizing fuel at home. These effects were driven by deliberation per se, rather than a pure information treatment, and show no evidence of contamination by facilitatoror peer-effects in group deliberations. www.cgdev.org Justin Sandefur, Nancy Birdsall, James Fishkin, and Mujobu Moyo