This forum is a contribution to debates over the (im)possibility of cooperating with Russian academic community while Russia’s war against Ukraine continues. After briefly reviewing previous studies on effectiveness and morality sanctions, continues assess politics boycott in changing belligerent behaviour regime. For this purpose, it introduces idea ontological (in)security moves discuss, from...

JEL Classification: Z13 Social sanction can substitute for the rule of law, particularly in communities where there are repeat interactions and where there is full information about past actions. The expectation of finacial boycotts or social shunning provides an incentive for reducing malfeasance. We construct a rich micro panel data set of U.S. Civil War soldiers from pro-war and anti-war com...

THE FORMER RAND AFRIKAANS UNIVERSITY, now University of Johannesburg, has acted against its own and the South African national interest by terminating the 25-year-old collaboration with the Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Around the World item “End to partnership with Israeli university,” News of the Week, 1 April, p. 19). Boycotts of Israeli scientists, science institutions, and worse, res...

In the continuing trend of lower taxation regimes in economically advanced states, many regulatory agencies have suffered budgets cuts since the 1980’s. The resultant diminished power and resources of government regulators, has seen others move into the vacated regulatory space. Environmental NGO’s, commercial third parties, and business and industry self-regulators, have become important playe...

People create, consume, and share content online in increasingly complex ways, often including multiple news, entertainment, and social media platforms. this article explores methods for tracing political media content across overlapping communication infrastructures. Using the 2011 Occupy Movement protests and 2013 consumer boycotts as cases, we illustrate methods for creating integrated datas...

An abundance of research in political psychology demonstrates that leftists and rightists (or liberals and conservatives) diverge from one another in terms of: (a) personality characteristics; (b) cognitive processing styles; (c) motivational interests and concerns; (d) the prioritization of personal values; and (e) neurological structures and physiological functions. In this article, I summari...

This paper investigates the impact of various economic measures on child labor in an open dual economy. We construct a small open economy model with heterogeneity of households in terms of location of residency and income. A part of households with low income supplies child labor when they reside in the rural area. The measures we will mainly consider are trade policies (e.g. import tariff and ...