https://macropaperwarehouse.com/authors/samuel-bazzi/Samuel BazziHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/religion-education-and-the-state/https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/religion-education-and-the-state/<p>This paper studies how Indonesia&rsquo;s Islamic education sector responded to one of the largest state-driven mass schooling expansions in history — the SD INPRES program (Sekolah Dasar Presidential Instruction) launched in 1973 — and whether that program achieved its secular nation-building objectives. The research question is three-part: Did Islamic schools enter or exit markets where the state built more primary schools? How did religious school choice shift across cohorts? And did the program advance secular identity formation among exposed individuals?</p>https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/the-confederate-diaspora/https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/the-confederate-diaspora/<p>This paper investigates how white migration out of the postbellum South diffused Confederate culture and entrenched racial norms across the United States during a critical juncture of westward expansion and post-Civil War reconciliation. The central question is whether the &ldquo;Confederate diaspora&rdquo; — Southern white migrants who left the former Confederacy from 1870 to 1900 — causally shaped the geography of Confederate memorialization, white supremacist organizations, racial violence, and long-run racial inequity outside the South.</p>