In modern conditions of emergence a new “digital” picture the world, study interest is represented by changes taking place in system public administration Russia, as well main barriers hindering digital transformation management practices. To this end, authors article analyzed statistical data for 2019-2021, characterizing “digital maturity” domestic authorities, conducted their own sociologica...

Distrust in scientific experts can be surprisingly stubborn, persisting despite evidence supporting the experts’ views, demonstrations of their competence, or displays good will. This stubborn distrust is often viewed as a manifestation irrationality. By contrast, this article proposes logic “status distrust”: low-status individuals are objectively vulnerable to collective decision-making, and ...

As competition between China and the United States intensifies, crisis management is becoming a central issue two countries their militaries. However, though both sides demonstrate strong will to strengthen management, progress has been slow. reason for this, previous academic studies mostly focus on unit level officials just engage in finger-pointing. This paper analyzes systemic obstacles Sin...

This paper considers the decision of Pennsylvania communities whether to levy a 1% wage tax. While a simple political economy model suggests this tax should be enacted when many residents are exempted from the tax, the opposite pattern seems to hold. One explanation is that residents may mistrust their government and fear that the new tax monies will be spent unwisely. Several implications of t...

Past studies of strategic thinking have shown that the encoding of the message information becomes more complex under distrust. Receivers process the information as if they are trying to protect themselves from being misled by testing alternative potential interpretations. The present study investigates the possibility that when people are mistrustful they spontaneously activate associations th...

This article discusses the long efforts of reconciliation in Palestine between Hamas and Fatah that have been going on for last decade but not yet achieved expected results. The agreed-upon agreements become formalities stop at negotiation stage, implementation stage. research focuses to form a Palestinian Unity Government after 2017 Cairo Agreement during 2017-2020 period. concept used analysi...

Abstract How does the complexity of world around us affect reliability our opinions? Motivated by this question, we quantitatively study an opinion formation mechanism whereby uninformed observer gradually forms opinions about a composed subjects interrelated signed network mutual trust and distrust. We show numerically analytically that observer’s resulting are highly inconsistent (they tend t...