Corruption has become an issue of major political and economic relevance in recent years. This has led to a resurgence of interest in analyzing the phenomenon and the diverse forms that it assumes in developing politics with an expectation that democratization and economic liberation offer potential routes to dealing with the problem. Anti-corruption strategies range from institutional reforms ...

With the end of bipolar structure, states wanted to guarantee their places in system through European Union Balkans. Serbia is one important Western Balkans that hardly adapted changes because Serbian nationalism. This article will discuss reasons for delay Europeanization process referring concept nationalism, which had greatest influence on Serbia’s EU process. study explain why path towards ...

CONTEXT Although political violence continues in parts of Central America, South America, and Mexico, little is known about its relationship to the health of Latino immigrants living in the United States. OBJECTIVE To determine (1) rates of exposure to political violence among Latino adult primary care patients who have immigrated to the United States from Central America, South America, and ...

this paper presents developing an analytical model for flux switching motors. the motor is a class of variable reluctance motors that has two windings on stator; a field winding and an armature winding. due to saliency of both stator and rotor poles, accurate modeling is difficult which arises from the nonlinear behavior of the machine. this paper presents a simple model which is able to predic...

This paper develops a theory of the interaction between appropriative conflict and economic growth. Appropriative conflict, as measured by the diversion of resources, is viewed as the cost of securing effective property rights. We identify conditions under which conflict rises or falls as the rate of economic growth improves. The main implication of the analysis is that if the quality of proper...

background government policy measures have a key role to play in the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (ncds). the caribbean, a middle-income region, has the highest per capita burden of ncds in the americas. our aim was to examine policy development and implementation between the years 2000 and 2013 on ncd prevention and control in barbados, and to investigate factors promotin...

OBJECTIVE Tobacco companies have made extensive efforts to build alliances against comprehensive smoke-free legislation. This article analyses the interaction between actors who opposed the development of the European Council Recommendation on smoke-free environments. METHODS Drawing on data from 200 policy documents and 32 semistructured interviews and using qualitative textual analysis and ...

While a number of studies have analysed portfolio management in goods firms, few have focused on the processes and practices within service firms. This research project investigated the attitudes, approach and practices geared towards project portfolio management (PPM) in UK based financial service firms. An exploratory research approach is undertaken via in-depth interviews with key informants...

We present this paper in order to suggest a new tool for political science in respect to identifying unstable countries and their root indicators that could suggest areas for political intervention. With more than 98% accuracy, we were able to predict severely unstable political states based on countries with a Fragile States Index (FSI) score of > 100. In addition, we were able to determine th...