Abstract Drawing on a case study of the implications China’s atrocities in Xinjiang context historical engagement with UN and its human rights mechanisms, this article examines autocracies’ impact institutions practices international law. It argues that rather than creating new law turns as whole (more) authoritarian, Chinese party-state is primarily—and even more dangerously—corroding practice...

Mass mobilization (MM) is an important driver of political change. While some citizens organize in favor more democratic institutions, others take to the streets support authoritarian status quo. This article introduces measures pro-democratic and pro-autocratic MM using expert assessments for 179 polities from 1900–2021. The data allow us trace patterns over time, across regions regime types. ...

In the present study, we tested the effects of specific dimensions of perceived teaching behaviors on students' self-determined motivation in physical education. In accordance with the tenets of self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985, 2000), we expected the psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness would mediate these effects. Secondary school students (N=498) ages 12-...

Gene regulatory networks have been shown to share some common aspects with commonplace social governance structures. Thus, we can get some intuition into their organization by arranging them into well-known hierarchical layouts. These hierarchies, in turn, can be placed between the extremes of autocracies, with well-defined levels and clear chains of command, and democracies, without such defin...

This study investigated principals’ leadership styles and teachers’ job performance in senior secondary schools in Ondo State, Nigeria. The study population comprised all the 281 secondary schools in the State. Out of this population, a sample of 240 senior secondary schools was taken and selected through the stratified random sampling technique. Out of the 7460 teachers (including principals) ...