"Lurking under the boardroom table in almost every organisation is a force trying to pull it into irrelevance. Organisations are lurching their way toward an increasingly uncertain future but still using tools, ideas and processes designed for different era. Call it entropy, complacency or plain...

This paper assesses the apparent effect of political multiculturalism on tolerance of Muslim accommodation among native-born majority members. We do so by examining responses to a pair of survey experiments embedded in surveys conducted in Canada and the United States. Our unique contributions...

This paper shines a critical light on most standing claims about divided government. We do so partly by expanding the focus to all postwar elections, thereby capturing the arrival and departure of the central phenomenon, rather than just focusing on its characteristics while in place. No...

A differentiated marketing strategy across rural and urban areas is expected to increase uptake and diffusion of the new filter technology. </AbstractSection> Copyright Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

The 2008 campaign exhibited several unusual features and yet may have produced a quite predictable result. Unusually, the gap between the candidates expanded rather than contracted. The electorate was more polarized than ever yet vote intentions exhibited more volatility than in 2004. Much of...

We claim that although the economy was an important factor it is hard to relate the evolution of vote intentions to the financial crisis. When the crisis reached voters’ consciousness, the vote shift was already under way. Already on the scene was Sarah Palin. Not only was her candidacy...

Started in 2007, the Sanitation Hygiene Education and Water Supply in Bangladesh (SHEWA-B) project aims to improve the hygiene, sanitation and water supply for 20 million people in Bangladesh, and thus reduce disease among this population. This paper assesses the effectiveness of SHEWA-B on...