— What were the structural determinants of the recent Arab Awakening protests that engulfed the Arab world? We examine the economic and political grievances along with political opportunities. Time-series analysis of nonviolent and violent protests in 18 Arab-majority countries shows that “bread,” “justice,” and political opportunities mattered. State terror and political openness had the stron...

In 1692 and 1693, in Salem, Massachusetts, more than 150 colonists were accused of witchcraft, resulting in 19 being hanged and one man being crushed to death. Contributions to these events included: historical, religious and cultural belief systems; social and community concerns; economic, gender, and political factors; and local family grievances. Child witnessing, certainty of physician diag...

Introduction The reforms in social policy associated with the establishment of the welfare state in Britain during the 1940s contained a number of initiatives designed to improve the lives of disabled people. However, the lack of meaningful progress towards social inclusion was highlighted, particularly from the 1970s, by an increasing number of campaigns by newly organised groups of disabled p...

This article presents an integrated model of contentious nationalist activity, 7 with structure, politics, and action assuming equal roles in an interdependent 8 causal system. The model is tested using simultaneous equation systems on 130 9 ethno-nationalist groups from 1990 to 1998. The results confirm the vital, 10 indirect role of grievances and group identity on protest and the powerful di...

Democracy functions as a system with formal and informal institutional interrelated mechanisms serving the purpose of translating social preferences into public policies. Enhancing the effectiveness of society’s dispute resolution mechanisms is also a way to address social preferences through public policies within the judicial domain.1 Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that the institutions...

Here we are making some predictions based on three methods: a straightforward extrapolations of the existing trends; a self-fulfilling prophecy; and picking some current grievances and predicting that they will be addressed or solved. We predict the growth of multicore computing and dramatic growth of data, as well as the improvements in force fields and sampling methods. We also predict that e...

Introduction: The etiology of temporomandibular disorders (TMD’s) is currently considered multifactorial, involving psychological factors, oral parafunctions, morphological and functional malocclusion. Objectives: In keeping with this reasoning, we evaluated children who seek preventive orthodontic treatment, to better understand their grievances and to assess the prevalence of TMD signs and sy...

Using the chilling effect research as a framework, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of binge drinking to the suppression of grievances in both romantic and close platonic relationships (N = 317). Results demonstrated the association between binge drinking and chilling effects, although this relationship was only evident in friendships. Overall, chilling effects were fou...

Abstract International institutions underpinning the ‘liberal international order’ are increasingly contested by established Western powers. This article contributes to a better understanding of this novel challenge ‘from within’. We conceptualize four types contestation frames according (1) whether contesting states attribute source grievances specific practices or underlying principles an ins...