Academic Articles & Research Papers

The Political System: An Inquiry into the State of Political Science

Multi-level governance readiness and regional policy capacity in supporting Indonesia’s new capital development

IntroductionThe establishment of Nusantara Capital City (IKN) as Indonesia’s new capital requires effective multi-level governance in which supporting provinces play a decisive role in ensuring administrative, infrastructural, and economic ...

Fragile States in African Economic Communities as Exemplified by the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) – Investment Issues

The region of Central Africa is abundant in both fragile states and economic communities. According to the theory of international economic integration, in the long term such integration processes should stimulate not only short-term trade ...

Scholasticism in Political Science

Criticism of trends in political science centers on specific methodologies—quantitative methods or rational choice. However, the more worrisome development is scholasticism—a tendency for research to become overspecialized and ingrown. I de...

Jihad as Reflected in Biḥār al-Anwār

Different views of Muslim scholars concerning jihad arises from, and is grounded in, the Quran and hadiths transmitted from the Prophet or Imams. In this paper, we study and analyze hadiths related to jihad as collected in Biḥār al-anwār. W...

The Political Science of Federalism

This article highlights political science's interest in the distribution of authority between federal and state governments. The authority boundaries are studied (a) as mechanism design problems, where authority is allocated optimally to ac...

Political science and rational choice

The impulse to study politics scientifically is both old and persistent. Aristotle collected 158 constitutions in order to generalize about events and institutions in the Politics . Early in the Renaissance, Machiavelli revived the Aristote...

The Oxford Handbook of Political Science

Abstract This handbook is a schematic guide and a sampler on political science. It first provides an overview of the state of political science as a discipline before turning to a discussion of political theory and its relationship with the...

Impact of attitude towards entrepreneurship education and role models on entrepreneurial intention

Abstract In this paper, we investigate entrepreneurial intention by applying the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) by Ajzen (1991). We specifically examine the role of gender on entrepreneurial education and role models or parental self-emp...

Questioning the Status Quo: Can Stakeholder Participation Improve Implementation of Small-Scale Mining Laws in Ghana?

Ghana’s small-scale mining sector faces complex challenges, including environmental degradation and pollution, loss of life and increased health risks, despite several years of implementation of small-scale mining laws. These challenges, ge...

Economics (Business Administration)

A degree in economics from Wayne State College will prepare you for a career in business, industry, government, or even law. As an economics major, you’ll study national and global economics and the impact of public policies....

Maritime Business Administration

Maritime transport, as an important component of global supply chains, requires the coordination and thorough integration of related functions combining the ship, cargo, and relevant players and actors involved. Maritime business has a holi...

Lagging behind the Joneses: Relative Deprivation and Household Consumption in Rural China

Based on the Chinese Family Panel Studies (CFPS) 2010–2018, this article investigates how relative deprivation influences household consumption in rural China. High-dimensional fixed-effects (HDFE), the instrumental variable (IV), and causa...

Compliance With Tobacco Control Policy and Visibility of Cigarette Retailers Around Educational Facilities in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

BackgroundIn Saudi Arabia, cardiovascular diseases are among the top causes of death and disability, and smoking is one of the leading risk factors, particularly among males.ObjectiveOur study aims to evaluate the compliance with the anti-s...

Assessment of the state administration effectiveness in the field of small business control in Slovakia

The agenda of small business in Slovakia is administered by state administration - district offices which registry and also control the entrepreneurs. The control units in the period 2008–2011 and its evaluation in terms of efficiency were ...

INTEGRITY AS A PRINCIPLE OF ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: THE EXPERIENCE OF UKRAINE AND EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES

The purpose of this article is to provide a scientific justification for the role of integrity as a principle of anti-corruption efforts in public administration, based on a comparative analysis of the experiences of Ukraine and European Un...

English collocations: A novel approach to teaching the language's last bastion

Collocations are a class of idiomatic expressions comprised of a sequence of words which, for mostly arbitrary reasons, occur together in a prescribed order. Collocations are not necessarily grammatical and/or cannot be generated through kn...

Tourism Demand Elasticities by Income and Prices of International Market Regions: Evidence Using Vietnam’s Data

This study aims to determine tourism demand elasticities by income and prices of regions, as well as total international markets. It is deployed to a total of 10 major source markets and two separate regions, from Asia and intercontinental ...

حِماية الحق في حُرمة الحياة الخاصة في الشريعة الإسلامية

لا ريب أن لكل شخص أسراره الخاصة ومن حقه كتمانها عن الآخرين تحقيقا لمصالحه الشخصية، وقد كان للشريعة الإسلامية فضل السبق في تقرير حق المرء في حفظ أسراره وعدم إفشائها من قبل الغير انطلاقا من حرصها علي صيانة خصوصيات الإنسان تحقيقاً للألفة والمو...

Whither Industrial Design

The scope of the Industrial Design Act in Canada is much narrower than the concept of industrial designs, as original and unique manufactured objects, in industry. Indeed, the Industrial Design Act applies only to the aspects of industrial ...