This paper aims to answer whether super deduction of R & D expense policy (SD policy), a preferential tax policy, effectively stimulates firm’s in the first place and is affected by political connections second. By theoretically exploring how SD connection influence behaviour, then empirically examines effects using firm-level data China. Results show that firms’ significantly, which was, howev...

The theme of the representations of women in contemporary Italian media has become the object of intense political debates recently, in connection with a series of sex scandals that marked the final phases of Berlusconi’s government. The sexism that has been dominating mainstream media—and particularly television—is often taken as an epitome of Berlusconism’s immorality and corruption. Several ...

Are international relations scholars objective observers of political events, or do our political preferences influence the way in which we see the world? This article explores that question using data from a survey of international relations scholars. It develops and tests hypotheses about how we might expect adherents of particular paradigms to identify themselves politically on a left-right ...

During the last ten or fifteen years a range of new urban regeneration policies was set up in the U.S. and in Europe, both at a national and at a Community level. This paper provides a comparison of the E.U. Urban Programme under Community Initiative and the U.S. Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Community Programmes promoted by the Federal Government. These programmes can be considered as exper...

The divergences developed within the euro area represent the main threat to the existence of the single currency and to the stability of the EU as a whole. Without proper automatic stabilisers, a monetary union can only deliver suboptimal results and may not even be sustainable. In the recent years, common unemployment insurance has been examined as one of the possible ways to improve the funct...

We derive the political climate of the social circles of Twitter users using a weakly-supervised approach. By applying random walks over a sub-sample of Twitter’s social graph we infer a distribution indicating the presence of eight Flemish political parties in users’ social circles in the months before the 2014 elections. The graph structure is induced through a combination of connection and r...

Using deconstructive techniques to make political and legal arguments raises the obvious question whether there is any connection between deconstruction and politics or deconstruction and justice. In fact, I believe that there are important connections between deconstruction, justice, and politics. But deconstruction itself does not have a politics, or rather, it has only the politics of those ...

Because the goal of military medicine is salvaging the wounded who can return to duty, military medical ethics cannot easily defend devoting scarce resources to those so badly injured that they cannot return to duty. Instead, arguments turn to morale and political obligation to justify care for the seriously wounded. Neither argument is satisfactory. Care for the wounded is not necessary to mai...