Aotearoa New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s management of COVID-19 media conferences demonstrated a complex negotiation expressions ‘kindness’ and political ‘control’ as Ardern sought to unify the national public implement emergency that closed border suspended civil liberties freedom movement. This article considers distinctive positive leadership style while also demonstrating ways i...

This research note provides a critical review of the recent literature on the consequences of development and democratization for the protection of human rights. It identifies common lessons and grounds for further research in the field. This literature takes a series of paradoxes that challenge conventional wisdom regarding the relationship between development and democratization as its starti...

ABSTRACT This essay discusses participative governance mechanisms in the public sector grounded on theories of civil liberties, dialogical democracies, patterns state bureaucracies, and reforms. We aimed to analyze effects these issues political agendas alternatives Brazil, emphasizing conflicts among rulers, politicians, servants, interest groups, advocacy coalitions dispute decision-making pr...

This paper analyzes empirically whether political freedom and civil liberties help or hinder economic liberalization, using panel data from 25 post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Former Soviet Union (FSU), between 1992 and 1997. Building on analytical arguments and counter-arguments put forward by the recent literature, the paper identifies the channels through whic...

To address the data and technical challenges facing ISI, we present a research framework with a primary focus on KDD (Knowledge Discovery from Databases) technologies. The framework is discussed in the context of crime types and security implications. Selected data mining techniques, including information sharing and collaboration, association mining, classification and clustering, text mining,...

College students in a South-Korean University responded to measures of Christian fundamentalism and sociopolitical perspectives related to nationalism, internationalism, patriotism, respect for civil liberties, and tolerance of dissent. Religious diversity in the sample permitted subgroup comparisons between Protestants, Catholics, Buddhists, and Atheists on all measures. These subgroups differ...

Why did Cuba fail to become independent early in the nineteenth century, at the same time as most countries in Latin America? We will argue that economic and political incentives led the same segments of society that fought for independence elsewhere to prefer remaining a colony in Cuba. We show that economic conditions, slavery and a special relation with Spain TOGETHER led to the delay of ind...

We use the occurrence of London bombings on July 7, 2005, during fieldwork period British Social Attitudes Survey to analyze dynamics public support for measures curbing core freedoms. observe little change in attitudes toward counterterrorist policies first week after attack. Approval infringements privacy and procedural rights surges following weeks before stabilizing at an increased level me...