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Health and Democracy [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Economic Review, 2006
In spite of the inexorable march of democracy around the globe, just how democratic institutions a¤ect human well-being is open to debate. The evidence that democracy promotes prosperity is neither strong nor robust. Moreover which aspects of policy making and human well-being are promoted by democracies is still a subject of debate.1 Even if ...
Besley, Timothy, Kudamatsu, Masayuki
openaire   +5 more sources

Küreselleşme ve Ekolojik Ayak İzi Arasındaki İlişki: MIKTA Ülkeleri Örneği

open access: yesCumhuriyet Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi
Küreselleşmenin ticaret ve doğrudan yabancı yatırım yoluyla ekonomik büyüme üzerinde doğrudan bir etkisi bilinen bir gerçektir. Ancak küreselleşmenin çevre üzerindeki etkisine dair literatürde fikir birliği oluşmamıştır.
Meltem Ince Yenilmez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

External Police Oversight in Mexico: Experiences, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

open access: yesStability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2014
After nearly 20 years of ‘reformist’ measures, the police in Mexico continues to be an ineffective, unreliable, and ‘far from citizen’ institution. The efforts made so far have faded amongst political interests and agendas; multidimensional frameworks ...
Rubén Guzmán Sánchez   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Critical Review on the Complex Interplay between Social Determinants of Health and Maternal and Infant Mortality

open access: yesChildren, 2022
Background: U.S. maternal and infant mortality rates constitute an important public health problem, because these rates surpass those in developed countries and are characterized by stark disparities for racial/ethnic minorities, rural residents, and ...
Rada K. Dagher, Deborah E. Linares
doaj   +1 more source

On Democracy

open access: yes, 2020
On Democracy explores the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of the modern liberal democratic system of governance, examining how democratic systems function and fail. Key to the paper are the conflicting values of liberalism and democracy as ideologies, which create tensions and conflicts that cause serious problems in the economic, political,
openaire   +2 more sources

Democracy and Innovation [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
Self-determination in politics has become the ideal everybody accepts. This paper argues that such contentment undermines the very idea of democracy. Democracy should be open to criticism and change. Two possible developments are considered: (a) More political power should be given to the citizens. Direct democracy is the appropriate form of democracy
openaire   +5 more sources

DEMOCRACY AND GLOBALIZATION [PDF]

open access: yesEconomics & Politics, 2006
The relationship between democracy and globalization has been a subject of both scholarly and policy debate. Some argue that the two go hand in hand – that unrestricted international transactions encourage political accountability and transparency and that politically free societies are least likely to restrict the mobility of goods and services.
David Leblang   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Revealing the structure of land plant photosystem II: the journey from negative‐stain EM to cryo‐EM

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Advances in cryo‐EM have revealed the detailed structure of Photosystem II, a key protein complex driving photosynthesis. This review traces the journey from early low‐resolution images to high‐resolution models, highlighting how these discoveries deepen our understanding of light harvesting and energy conversion in plants.
Roman Kouřil
wiley   +1 more source

Hidden order across online extremist movements can be disrupted by nudging collective chemistry

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Disrupting the emergence and evolution of potentially violent online extremist movements is a crucial challenge. Extremism research has analyzed such movements in detail, focusing on individual- and movement-level characteristics.
N. Velásquez   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrative miRNOMe profiling reveals the miR‐195‐5p–CHEK1 axis and its impact on luminal breast cancer outcomes

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
In luminal (ER+) breast carcinoma (BC), miRNA profiling identified miR‐195‐5p as a key regulator of proliferation that targets CHEK1, CDC25A, and CCNE1. High CHEK1 expression correlates with worse relapse‐free survival after chemotherapy, especially in patients with luminal A subtype.
Veronika Boušková   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

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