A Swedish professor has been accused of committing xenophobic acts towards a Turkish university student. This occurrence, at first glance, seems ostensibly an isolated example of a lack of tolerance and acceptance in academia. It is helpful to briefly recall the last elections in Sweden and the...

This paper evaluates positive and negative media coverage of online local budget transparency (OLBT) and its impact on budget transparency in Croatian local administrative units in 2018. Using multinomial logistic regression, research confirmed a strong impact of media coverage on budget...

In Korea, since 2014, the last Wednesday of every month has been designated as 'Day of Culture (DoC)' on which discounts about half the normal price are applied to movies. This study empirically analyzes the differences in the number of audience and their expenditure before and after the...

The management conditions at face-to-face service businesses in Korea has deteriorated amid the protracted COVID-19 pandemic, and accordingly, the survivability of self-employed businesses, which account for a large proportion of the face-to-face service sector, has been negatively affected....

In recent times, academics and practitioners have focused on the optimal processes and capabilities required to increase an organization’s policy capacity, but there is little research on the human resource theory adopted by practitioners to improve public policy and its development. This...

Support for populist radical right parties in Europe has dramatically increased in the twenty-first century. We decompose the rise of the populist radical right between 2005 and 2020 into four components: changes in party positions, changes in voter attributes (demographics and opinions),...

Purpose—The DOD has long partnered with universities and other nonprofit organizations to perform early-stage, military-related research using research centers established under long-term contracts known as Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs). Over the last 25 years,...

Housing rights can act to guarantee minimum housing provision for poor and deprived persons, based on respect for human dignity. These rights are now established within many international public law instruments and treaties, as well as national constitutions, laws and curial jurisprudence. There...

In Young v. American Mini Theaters, Inc., the Supreme Court carved a significant exception to the accepted rules of first amendment jurisprudence. By upholding a zoning ordinance that restricted the location of movie theaters showing sexually explicit movies, the Supreme Court, for the first...

This paper offers additional insights on the interactions between economics and politics in Portugal. We use an unexplored data set consisting of monthly polls on vote intentions for the main political parties in Portugal, since 1986. Results indicate that: (1) socialist governments had less...