The monitoring of ambient environmental conditions is essential to environmental management and regulation. However, effective monitoring is subject to a range of institutional, political, and legal constraints, constraints that are a product of the need for monitoring to be continuous, long lived, and well matched to the resources being studied. Political pressure or myopia, conflicting agency...

Natural resource-abundance tends to undermine investment efficiency whereas a resource-poor endowment places a premium on efficiency. The type of political state provides the link between the natural resource endowment and the economic outcome. Developmental political states tend to be associated with resource-poor countries, albeit not exclusively so. Their governments pursue a coherent econom...

today, south korea has become a successful pattern for less- developed countries. this article attempts to explain its successful experience in economic development in the framework of pattern of non-democratic developmental state. in this pattern developed by adrian leftwich, the main focus is on political-sociological context affecting economic development. the main characteristics of develop...

Chapter 2 Unclassified Information Sharing and Coordination in Security, Stabilization, Transition and Reconstruction Efforts.................................................................................................................... 14 Ranjeev Mittu, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA Suleyman Guleyupoglu, ITT Corporation, USA Al Johnson, Office of Secretary of Defense Networks and In...

This work focuses on online state communication through the analysis of Latin-American presidential portals. It postulates that even though governmental websites contribute to the dynamics of democracy in terms of greater transparency and participation in government processes, online government communication is neither completely symmetric nor transparent, since the ways of constructing, presen...

post – materialism and political science development dr. hossein salimi in social science area, some think that scientific studies require and content a hidden materialism. they believe a sort of interconnection and synchronization between materialism and scientific studies, however emerging and expansion of post-materialism school reveals that it is not right. in the article it will be endeavo...

The study investigates the relationship between premigration experiences with autocracy and immigrants' participation in politics host country. Using a survey of about 2000 immigrants Quebec (Canada) interviewed over telephone or an online questionnaire, it assesses two possible pathways regarding effect on country politics. One pathway emphasizes reluctance to participate where would hinder se...

This article examines the reasons for adopting a non‑institutional character of Visegrad cooperation in years 1991‑1992. Its focus concerns two causes initial reluctance to institutionalise Group: high level unpredictability Central Europe after collapse Communism and symbolic role Group was expected play outside region. These issues are considered through prism theories International Relations...