Notes on Church-State Affairs

Eavesdropping on GSM: state-of-affairs

In the almost 20 years since GSM was deployed several security problems have been found, both in the protocols and in the originally secret cryptography. However, practical exploits of these weaknesses are complicated because of all the signal processing involved and have not been seen much outside of their use by law enforcement agencies. This could change due to recently developed open-source...

Church and State in East Germany

Political Religion and Church-State Issues

In this paper we examine public attitudes on the role of religion in the American political process, as well as some public policy implications of those attitudes. Although the current American legal regime may lean toward strict separationism, the political system has seen renewed religious activism over the past three decades. Historically, religious involvement in American politics has been ...

On Religion and Cultural Policy: Notes on the Roman Catholic Church

This paper argues that religious institutions have largely been neglected within the study of cultural policy. This is attributed to the inherently secular tendency of most modern social sciences. Despite the predominance of the ‘secularisation paradigm’, the paper notes that religion continues to promote powerful attachments and denunciations. Arguments between the ‘new atheists’, in particula...

Presenting a Paradigmatic Model of the Organizational Architecture of Tax Affairs Based on Information Technology Governance by Data Method (Case Study of the State Tax Affairs Administration)

Today it is clear that both modernizing and smartening tax system cause to increase tax revenues and moves the country's economy towards transparency and tax justice. This article aims at presenting a paradigmatic model of the organizational architecture of tax affairs based on the information technology governance in the state tax organization by using data method, a qualitative research metho...