Similar to other developing countries, Jordan started a national e-Government initiative aiming to streamline government procedures and make information and government services available to business and citizens online. This paper presents the results of a pilot study that aims to assess factors which could influence the awareness and use of e-Government services in Jordan. It investigates issu...

Much of the literature on citizen participation in the budget process links the council-manager form of government with higher levels of citizen participation, assuming the council-manager form represents professional administration. This is contradictory to the reality that different forms of government have “borrowed” features from each other and many now have mixed forms of government (i.e.,...

Child labour is a global practice and has many negative outcomes. According to International Labour Organization, child labour is the important source of child exploitation and child abuse in the world today. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has estimated the number of Pakistani working children to be around 11-12 millions, out of which, at least, half the children are under the age of t...

The World Health Organization marked “Antimicrobial resistance: no action today, no cure tomorrow” as the theme of World Health Day 2011. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an urgent global threat.1 The misuse of antibiotics for upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) is a main cause of AMR. Local studies showed that 237 (23.7%) of 1002 interviewed citizens were prescribed antibiotics for thei...

High participation rates by the public in authority projects are key in increasing resident recycling levels. Understanding waste separation behavior is crucial to achieving sustainable waste management within such household-based schemes. To identify the driving forces behind the seldom-discussed kitchen garbage separation behavior, five psychological factors, namely, attitude, perceived behav...

Aims: COVID-19 is rapidly expanding around the world and one of most important health problems. The purpose study was to determine preventive behaviors from its determinants based on some constructs Health Belief Model. Instrument & Methods: This cross-sectional conducted 2504 citizens Rafsanjan in 2020 that were randomly selected by cluster sampling method. Data collected using a behavior Mode...

This article argues that social patterns of inequality and structures of partisan competition play central roles in shaping support for redistribution, offering three important insights concerning redistribution attitude formation. First, pronounced income disparities between ethnic/racial groups reduce support for redistribution. Second, for members of marginalized ethnic groups, entrenched di...