Erik E. Northrop UNC Charlotte Woodward Hall 300 9201 University City Blvd. Charlotte, N.C. 28213 United States [email protected] Heather Richter Lipford The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Woodward Hall 305E 9201 University City Blvd. Charlotte, N.C. 28213 United States [email protected] Steffen Bartsch CASED, TU Darmstadt Hochschulstraße, 10 64289 Darmstadt, Germany steff...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become a major enabling technology that is nowadays very much ‘en vogue’. It has also become an important tool to promote a variety of business goals and public policies. The growing importance of ICT in daily life, business activities and governance prompts the need to consider ICT more explicitly in local policies. The expected benefits from ...

Using a large six-city exit poll from 2000, we examine popular judgments of what constitutes ‘‘political corruption’’ in the United States. We find two distinct evaluative dimensions: corruption understood as lawbreaking, and corruption as favoritism. These judgments are heavily conditioned by the voter’s socioeconomic background and are politically consequential. Subjective understandings of ‘...

Over 25 billion dollars were spent between 1970 and 2000 in fourteen major cities in the United States on the construction of new rail transit lines. This massive investment in rail transit construction and expansion allows me to study the consequences of local public goods improvements for communities nearby new stations. This paper uses a fourteen city census tract level panel data set coveri...

In this issue of International Review, Karen Murphy, Guest Editor, offers Part I of a two-part topic, “Cultural Differences in Online Learning.” It is a special pleasure to announce my new position as Professor and Vice President of Project-Based Learning at the new and innovative Northface University in Salt Lake City. As this is written, we are busily engaged in the ground-up curriculum desig...

This paper uses published census data to examine population redistribution and concentration in Malaysia since 1970. The growth rate varied widely across states districts, between urban rural areas. Consequently, the has become ever more concentrated cities. In 2020, 41% of lived 12 making up 2.6% total land area. About one four Malaysians live Greater Kuala Lumpur (commonly known as Klang Vall...