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Codes of Cultural Belonging: Racialised National Identities in a Multi-Ethnic Scottish Neighbourhood
Virdee, Satnam; Kyriakides, Christopher; Modood, Tariq - In: Sociological Research Online 11 (2006) 4
This qualitative study investigates the relationship between race and nation in an ethnically mixed neighbourhood in … Glasgow, Scotland. It finds that Scottishness has a historically founded racialised referent at the level of the neighbourhood …
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Devolved government and public sector pay reform: Considerations of equity and efficiency
Elliott, Robert; Bell, David; Scott, Anthony; Ma, Ada; … - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 4, pp. 519-539
that reveal little sensitivity to specific labour market conditions in Scotland. In consequence, in Scotland, public sector … public sector into line with those in the private sector in Scotland. …
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Policy convergence and divergence in Scotland under devolution
Keating, Michael - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 4, pp. 453-463
Keating M. (2005) Policy convergence and divergence in Scotland under devolution, Regional Studies 39 , 453—463. The … scope for divergence of public policy between Scotland and the rest of the UK is constrained by institutional, political and … services. Scotland is more committed than England to the traditional public sector model, emphasizing egalitarianism and …
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Technology Transfer Within Multinational Firms and Its Impact on the Productivity of Scottish Subsidiaries
Siler, Pamela; Wang, Chengqi; Liu, Xiaming - In: Regional Studies 37 (2003) 1, pp. 15-25
SILER P., WANG C. and LIU X. (2003) Technology transfer within multinational firms and its impact on the productivity of Scottish subsidiaries, Reg. Studies 37 , 15-25. This paper aims to examine the extent to which the technology generated in US parent firms is transferred to their Scottish...
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Prologue
Lin, Justin Yifu - Princeton University Press
How can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In The Quest for Prosperity, Justin Yifu Lin--the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank--focuses on what developing...
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Human capital: the need to be evaluated
Gogan, Luminita Maria - In: Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research 7 (2014) 1, pp. 52-60
In this millennium, managing turbulent economic environment has become an important task for the nation, whose … the core competency of the nation and has the capacity to gain sustainable competitive advantage. The purpose of this …
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IDEAS, POLITICO-JUDICIAL CONCEPTS IN THE XVIIIth AND EARLY XIXth CENTURY IN TRANSYLVANIA
BOANTA, Adrian - In: Curentul Juridic, The Juridical Current, Le Courant … 58 (2014) September, pp. 22-27
Regardless of any particular historical timeframe, the usage of legal arguments has represented an efficient means of shaping a national consciousness and of tuning to the European trends within the Transylvanian School. The representatives of this current have succeeded in imposing themselves...
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Reframing the Climate Debate
Sharan, Vivan - eSocialSciences - 2014
There is perhaps only one broad certainty in the contemporary debate on climate change: not only does climate change affect different nations and communities differently, but the responses of individual stakeholders and institutions are also quite different, primarily because of their different...
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Aufstieg und Niedergang von Nationen
Grömling, Michael; Taube, Markus; Jerger, Jürgen - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 67 (2014) 14, pp. 03-14
Wirtschaftliche und technologische Überlegenheit ermöglicht eine Vormachtstellung, doch welche Faktoren erklären ökonomische Prosperität, und was entscheidet über Armut und Reichtum von Nationen? Zu diesem Thema fand am 23. und 24. Mai 2014 eine wissenschaftliche Tagung unter der Leitung...
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Mobilization, Flexibility of Identity, and Ethnic Cleavage
Yamamoto, Kazuya - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18 (2015) 2, pp. 8-8
In modern states, mobilization policy has been used to awaken people to new ideas such as national identity, industrial capitalism, and civic society. However, it has long been debated whether mobilization in new countries or in countries under reconstruction creates an integrated identity or...
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