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Instrumental Approach to Institutional Corruption: Explaining Performance‐Conditional Acceptance of Corruption Among Citizens in European Countries

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the mechanisms through which institutional corruption and engagement in corruption at the societal level may be normalized to the extent that citizens adopt an instrumental approach to corruption. Such an approach means that the public accepts corrupt practices and sees them as reasonable, as long as they achieve results ...
Shlomo Mizrahi, Shani Bar
wiley   +1 more source

IGANets: Isogeometric analysis networks and their applications to linear structural analysis problems. [PDF]

Eng Comput
Möller M, Obermair G, Singer I, Gollmann C, Reali A, Elgeti S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Public Procurement's Long COVID: Emergency Responses and Shifting Corruption Risks in Europe

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic caused an unprecedented surge in spending to combat the pandemic with widespread accusations of corruption. The magnitude, drivers, and trajectory of corruption across the pandemic response remain underexplored. This paper approximates the impacts of the pandemic on public procurement corruption risks and the mechanisms ...
Mihály Fazekas, Zdravko Veljanov, Aly Abdou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conserved specificity of extracellular wastewater peptidases revealed by multiplex substrate profiling by mass spectrometry. [PDF]

Environ Chem Lett
Wichmann N, Meibom J, Kohn T, Zumstein M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Does the Threat of Killing Gays Deter Foreign Aid: The Case of Uganda's 2014 Anti‐Homosexuality Act

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Much attention has been drawn on Uganda in recent years due to the strengthening of its anti‐LGBTQ legislation and rhetoric. Our study explores the aid‐deterring effect of anti‐LGBTQ legislation in an experimental setting using the Synthetic Control Method.
Elissaios Papyrakis, Luca Tasciotti
wiley   +1 more source

A dataset of structural breaks in greenhouse gas emissions for climate policy evaluation. [PDF]

Sci Data
Tebecis T, Crespo Cuaresma J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
wiley   +1 more source

Elevated temperature simulating heatwaves restructures active nitrifying communities and associated viruses in tidal flats and agricultural soils. [PDF]

ISME J
Wang B, Gao P, Zhang P, Zheng Y, Liu X, Ling N, Shan J, Yao R, Zhao S, Zhang Z, Zhu G, Jung MY, Zou J, Yan X, Lee S, Hazard C, Nicol GW, Zhou J, Yang Y, Zhu Y, Stahl DA, Wagner M, Gao Y, Jiang J, Qin W.   +24 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From Expansion to Erosion: The Global Trajectory of Judicial Independence, 1960–2018

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Judicial independence expanded globally throughout the twentieth century, but this trajectory has recently come under pressure. In recent years, governments around the world have increasingly challenged judicial autonomy. This study unpacks this global reversal by analyzing data from 156 states between 1960 and 2018.
Nir Rotem
wiley   +1 more source

Nursing Professional Values Scale (NPVS-3) in an Austrian context: validation of a scale and reliability assessment. [PDF]

BMC Nurs
Podgorica N, Rached CDA, Crescente NY, Zenzmaier C, Müller G.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source