THIS ARTICLE MAINTAINS THAT THE CHALLENGE to the American public library is not information technology but the ideology of information technology. This ideology is a coalescence of technological determinism, free market values, and neo-conservative politics that advocates radical government deregulation and the withdrawal of support for public services. In the face of this challenge, the articl...

China and its population are confronted with fundamental environmental challenges, as both, environmental degeneration and the impact of climate change exhibit critical social, economic and political implications for their future development. Among the various environmental challenges China faces we can identify pollution issues, soil erosion, acid rain, and sea-level rise. This variety of envi...

Introduction Following deregulation of the principal energy markets, and EU failure to impose harmonised taxation on polluting emissions, some European countries have moved towards market based greening of energy supply. This move is demanding, however, as political authorities thereby engage extensively not only in market regulation, but also in market construction, even to the extent of takin...

Integrating political, industrial and healthcare systems has been a major challenge for politics of innovation and development policy in low and middle income countries. This challenge has so far been understood in terms of separate industrial and health related innovation policies without paying adequate attention to the institutional roles of biopharmaceutical and other umbrella associations....

Drought is a recurring challenge to the livelihoods of those living in Tharaka District, Kenya, situated in the semi-arid zone to the east of Mount Kenya, from the lowest slopes of the mountain to the banks of the Tana River. This part of Kenya has been marginal to the economic and political life of Kenya from the colonial period until the present day. A study of more than 30 years of change in...

The primary assumption within the recent personality and political orientations literature is that personality traits cause people to develop political attitudes. In contrast, research relying on traditional psychological and developmental theories suggests the relationship between most personality dimensions and political orientations are either not significant or weak. Research from behaviora...

abstractone challenge face political system is implementation national development. there are various models for national development. some countries have relied on import model, but other has emphasis on their indigenous, the purpose of this study is designing intelligence development model in iranian national context. based on the selected theory building methodology, we have theorized intell...