PUBLIC AFFAIRS: YES, SCIENCE DOES MATTER!

Explaining Public Service Performance: Does Management Matter?

Does Public Funding for Higher Education Matter?

Zhang is an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Minnesota and a faculty associate at the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI). He thanks Ronald Ehrenberg for his insightful comments on an early draft of the paper. Of course, full responsibility rests with the author. 1 Abstract This study uses panel data to examine the direct link between state funding an...

Public Affairs Quarterly

The purpose of this essay is to offer criteria for the identification of propaganda as a type of discourse, and for the analysis and evaluation of argumentation used in propaganda.1 Ten essential characteristics (as well as several other typical properties) of propaganda as an identifiable type of discourse are given. Some advice is given on how to analyze argumentation in propaganda, and to re...

Does Marriage Matter to Women and Men?

Purpose: the transformation of marriage patterns and family formation by following transition from traditional society to a modern society causes changes in goals, function of family formation. The aim of this study was comparative investigation of the attitudes of single and married individuals about marriage function. Materials and method: the study performed by qualitative method. The statis...

Health Financing: Does Governance Quality Matter?

Abstract T his paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the determinants of health financing in 177 developed and developing countries. The study introduces the variables of government effectiveness and control of corruption to capture the impact of governance quality on different mechanisms of health financing. Utilisng panel data analysis, namely system...