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Leadership and climate policy
Mideksa, Torben K. - 2021
? When does leadership improve global welfare? The answer depends on how transparent the leader’s abatement technology is for … global welfare unless the crowding-out effect is weak. If there is transparency and the follower can benefit from technology … spillover effects, leadership reduces global welfare unless the spillover effect is sufficiently large. I find that transparency …
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What aspects of society affect the quality of life of a minority? : global evidence from the new Gay Happiness Index
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Nilsson, Therese - 2015
There is great variation in views on and treatment of minorities such as gay men across the world. We are the first to pinpoint what features of societies that are beneficial to gay men's quality of life by making use of a unique new cross-country dataset covering 110 countries, the Gay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410468
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COVID-19 Paradox : Globalisation and State Power
Fushimi, Katsutoshi - 2020
Globalisation has made many issues and challenges unsolvable by an effort of a single sovereign state (hereinafter referred to as ‘state’). States must work with others and establish global rules and regulations to address them. Growing international organisations and international laws,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014091232
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Searching for a Room of One's Own in Cyberspace : Datafication and the Global Feminisation of Privacy
Kovacs, Anja - 2023
Since its conceptualisation, the construction of privacy has been deeply gendered, as women and gender and sexual minorities are often at the receiving end of forms of privacy that are subordinating, rather than equalising. In this essay, I argue that, as a result of pervasive datafication, we...
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Global Futures of Energy, Climate, and Policy : Qualitative and Quantitative Foresight Towards 2055
Ansari, Dawud - 2019
Existing long-term energy and climate scenarios are typically a rather simple extrapolation of past trends. Both qualitative and quantitative outlooks co-exist, but they often focus narrowly on individual perspectives, which is opposed to the interlinked and complex nature of energy and climate....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893973
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Global futures of energy, climate, and policy : qualitative and quantitative foresight towards 2055
Ansari, Dawud; Holz, Franziska; Tosun, Hasan Basri - 2019
Existing long-term energy and climate scenarios are typically a rather simple extrapolation of past trends. Both qualitative and quantitative outlooks co-exist, but they often focus narrowly on individual perspectives, which is opposed to the interlinked and complex nature of energy and climate....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963639
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Testing an EU-candidate's place on the maps of global economic, political and social values : the case of Turkey
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354745
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Transnational Activism and World Politics
Erdem, Engin I. - 2015
Transnational activism has become an increasingly salient dynamic of world politics in several issue areas including human rights, environment, development, women’s rights, and peace. The article first assesses how major international relations theories look at them. While realist theories do...
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US Global Leadership Dilemma as a Challenge for the US-Russia Relations
Suslov, Dmitry - 2015
The paper discusses the issue of leadership as a central problems of the US Grand Strategy as America is adjusting to a transforming international system, marked by increasing multipolarity, interdependence and heterogeneity, and decreasing governability. It also tackles the US commitment to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014148404
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Who got what, then and now? : a fifty year overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project
Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015 - This version: May 8, 2015
implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516605