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Toward a Framework for Understanding Localization in Its Institutional Context: A Systems Perspective for Incorporating Local Values

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how we might integrate local traditional values into a systems approach for analyzing and maximizing localization in the context of foreign aid. The paper situates localization and its operationalization in the older and broader literature on the political economy of foreign aid.
Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
wiley   +1 more source

Radicalism in American Political Thought : Black Power, the Black Panthers, and the American Creed [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
American Political Thought has presented somewhat of a challenge to many because of the conflict between the ideals found within the American Creed and the reality of America\u27s treatment of ethnic and social minorities.
Cooney, Christopher Thomas
core   +1 more source

Human Rights Economic Dividends: Estimating the Economic Effects of Preventing Discrimination

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Economies embracing principles like nondiscrimination are presumed to reap significant rewards, while violations incur heavy costs. We call these benefits human rights economic dividends—the economic gains that arise when policymaking is guided by human rights principles.
Jose Cuesta
wiley   +1 more source

The Method of Beliefs of The Mu'tadilah Regarding The Nature of Khabariyyah: An Introduction

open access: yesRabbanica: Journal of Revealed Knowledge, 2023
In understanding the khabariyyah nature of Allah SWT, Muslims among the Ahli Sunnah wal Jamaah have had a difference of opinion in determining the method of belief between the methods of ithbat, ta'wil and tafwid.
Nasron Yaacob
doaj  

On an Aggregation Theory for Indicators Expressing Behaviors of Complex Systems With an Application to Sustainability

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Certain attributes of large‐scale complex systems are often expressed through sets of indicators. For example, the sustainability of an entity, be it a nation, a city, an energy system, a corporation etc., can be effectively represented by indicators and corresponding data series.
Vassilis S. Kouikoglou   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comic-Reviews: Assassin's Creed

open access: yesMedienimpulse, 2013
Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond Verlag: Splitter Erscheinungsort: Bielefeld Erscheinungsjahr: 2011 ISBN-10: 3868692622 Assassin's Creed 1: Der Untergang Verlag: Panini Erscheinungsort: Stuttgart Erscheinungsjahr: 2011 ISBN-10: 3862010937 Assassin's ...
Karl H. Stingeder
doaj   +1 more source

Strategic framing of novel ideas: How contestation shapes the evolution of novelty

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Entrepreneurs use strategic framing to gain support for their novel ventures, products, and services. A key challenge entrepreneurs face is that audiences often contest frames that introduce novel ideas, especially when these ideas disrupt audiences' mental and business models.
Janina Klein   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Size doesn't matter! Gift exchange in experimental labor markets [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
El pdf del artículo es el documento de trabajo.We study how the number of traders affects the interaction between a centralized exchange and bilateral negotiations in an experimental labor market with excess supply and incomplete contracts.
Brandts, Jordi   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
wiley   +1 more source

The Apostle’s Creed

open access: yes, 2018
Excerpt: Today, when the problem with the written word is not too little, but too much-- too much that is either a waste of time, vulgar, or blasphemous-- the power of a memorized creed lies in its reminder of the majesty of God, who He is, and our ...
Irish, Kerry
core  

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