This study was geared towards assessing the influence of e-servicescape on customer patronage internet banking in deposit money banks. Its aim to examine influences website aesthetic appeal, usability, security and interactivity services. Cross-sectional survey research design adopted. The sampling technique adopted purposive sampling, which facilitated data collection from 228 bank customers w...

Following the advent of the phenomenon of the nation-state in modern Muslim countries, the issue of the relationship between the state and religion assumed great significance. Islamic scholars have differed over the scope of this relationship, and a key factor underpinning this inquiry has been different interpretations of the various schools of Islamic law. In this regard, the Hanafi school, d...

Beddoes lectured on chemistry at Oxford in the years that included the French Revolution, the Terror, and the outbreak of war with France, as well as the success in France of the chemical revolution. The very public dispute between Edmund Burke and Joseph Priestley meant that the latter's study of different kinds of air was politically tainted. Beddoes's democratic beliefs and his support for t...

Peterson delineates a patronage pyramid worthy of the ancien regime with the poorest practitioners scraping a living at the base and the Oxbridge consultants creaming off the glittering prizes at the apex. She pursues her subject with enviable thoroughness, through diaries, novels, minutes, pamphlets, and books, supporting her contentions with unobtrusive statistics and illustrating.them by ill...

Scheduled transit services in many countries are provided by operators within geographical jurisdictions protected from competition with other public transit operators, although unprotected from competition by other modes, especially the car. This increased competition in many developed economies has led to a loss of market share of urban transit and contributed to the growing crisis in escalat...

Consumer loyalty may be defined as a singular concept, usually as an attitude toward the loyalty object or as repeatpatronage behaviour; alternatively, the definition may combine attitude and behaviour in either an additive or an interactive expression. We argue that definitions of loyalty are useful if they predict phenomena such as recommendation, search and retention (loyalty outcomes). In t...

The aim of this research is to examine the role of state ownership in corporate governance and firm performance. We employed ordinary least squares and two-stage least squares regressions to analyze the effects of state ownership on firm performance. We go beyond existing research on state ownership by carefully disentangle investment objectives of state-controlled financial institutions. Such ...

Although in theory, competitive legislative elections are supposed to prevent criminal or venal candidates from winning or retaining office, in practice voters frequently elect and reelect such candidates. This surprising pattern is sometimes explained by reference to voters’ underlying preferences, which are thought to favor criminal or corrupt candidates because of the patronage they provide....

Political sociologists have distinguished between Weberian states in which elite promotions are based on meritocratic criteria and states in which personalistic networks dominate government careers, linking these different career types to state structures and capacity. While researchers also recognize that elite networks are important even in highly bureaucratized states, there is little system...