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This chapter examines the catalytic role of the state in shaping a sub-national polity’s public values in terms of its members’ affiliative sentiment toward the nation-state, their political agency within the public sphere and their civic disposition toward fellow citizens. This examination offers a corrective to discussions of a polity’s “national identification” that elide analysis of the state’s institutional apparatus and its culture of governance.
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Elie, S.D. (2020). Politics of Redistribution: Governance Culture and Public Ethos. In: A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra, Volume I. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45638-2_8
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