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This article attempts to answer the question: why are women not often at the head of nations? We test the probability of occurrence of female leaders at the head of the country using data from ARCHIGOS data set of Goemans et al. (2009). Our hypothesis is that the occurrence of female leaders as...
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“A self-expectation about your performance largely determines your performance-Galatea effect”. This study was conducted to determine the self-image of the Police. The respondents were the 503 policemen assigned in Davao City and they were through universal sampling. With the used of...
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Serbs and Albanians have inhabited Kosovo for centuries. For Serbs, Kosovo is the core of the medieval Serbian kingdom. For Albanians, Kosovo is the cradle of their struggle for independence. With both parties feeling entitled to the territory of the province, the threat of conflict was never...
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Religious war and the separation of Church and state affairs in the global north contributed in the emergence and implementation of various ideologies. Instead of its positive impact these ideologies became a source of extreme violence and corruption across the planet. Liberalism,...
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Religious war and the separation of the Church and state affairs in the global north contributed to the emergence and implementation of various ideologies. Instead of having a positive impact these ideologies have become a source of extreme violence and corruption across the planet....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015262153
We examine the relationship between public libraries and local crime rates. Previous studies have looked at different factors that could account for changes in crime, but few have focused on cultural institutions as a primary factor. Using crime data from the Crime Open Database and library data...
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The paper explains long-term changes in birth, death rates and attitude to personal consumption by changing patterns of cultural transmission. When communities are culturally isolated, they are focused on population growth, resulting in large fertility and welfare transfers to children, limited...
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After the defeat of Marxism and the triumph in the war in Iraq, pundit in the global north labelled neoliberalism as the End of History and last form of mankind ideological evolution. It is believed that neoliberalism successfully satisfied all the previous ideological contradiction. In...
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Undoubtedly, Islamic economics is undergoing a serious epistemological crisis as its literature is full of complexities and paradoxes. This chaos is more evident in the applications of Islamic economics as is obvious in he so-called Islamic finance today. Most of the modern literature of Islamic...
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After the defeat of Marxism and the triumph in the war in Iraq, pundit in the global north believed neoliberalism as the end of history and final form of mankind ideological evolution. It was also claimed that neoliberalism successfully satisfied all the previous ideological contradictions. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015264120