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The affective extension of ‘Family’ in the context of changing elite business networks [PDF]
, 2021 Drawing on 49 oral-history interviews with Scottish family business owner-managers, six key-informant interviews, and secondary sources, this interdisciplinary study analyses the decline of kinship-based connections and the emergence of new kinds of ...
Bika, Zografia, Frazer, Michael
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Must Realists Be Pessimists About Democracy? Responding to Epistemic and Oligarchic Challenges [PDF]
, 2021 In this paper we show how a realistic normative democratic theory can work within the constraints set by the most pessimistic empirical results about voting behaviour and elite capture of the policy process.
Arlen, Gordon, Rossi, Enzo
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Enhancing performance proficiency at the expert level: Considering the role of 'somaesthetic awareness' [PDF]
, 2014 © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Objectives: Traditional theories of motor learning (e.g., Fitts & Posner, 1967), along with certain contemporary psychological perspectives (e.g., Weiss & Reber, 2012; Wulf, 2013), postulate that expert performers must relinquish
Moran, Aidan, Toner, John
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Jurnal Sosiologi Pendidikan Humanis, 2019 This study aims to explain the paradigm of power elite theory by Charles Wright Mills (C. Wright Mills, henceforth) in relation to the context of mapping the political sociology theory of the elite class in the United States.
Ahmad Imam Mawardi
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Global Elite as Transnational Capitalist Class
Historicka Sociologie, 2017 As a contribution to the burgeoning field of multidisciplinary globalization studies, this article evaluates how IR grand theories can conceptualize the phenomenon of global elite. It compares and synthesizes (neo)liberalism, constructivism, feminism and
Lukáš Kantor
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Identity politics, core State powers and regional Integration: Europe and beyond [PDF]
, 2019 This article concentrates on the path from the development of collective identities to the integration of core state powers. Firstly, we focus on the European experience.
Börzel, Tanja A., Risse, Thomas
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The Socioeconomic Background of the Divergence of Belarusian and Ukrainian Political Systems [PDF]
, 2007 The aim of this paper is to analyze the political, social and economic background of the divergence of Belarusian and Ukrainian transitions. We focus on Belarus in order to find explanation for questions such as why could Lukashenko remain the ...
Mészáros, Ádám
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BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2022 Background This study examined the contextual factors associated with psychological need satisfaction (PNS) and the predictability of the PNS components, together with the contextual factors, on the developmental outcomes of elite young athletes in the ...
Tefera Tadesse +3 more
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The fourth dimension: A motoric perspective on the anxiety–performance relationship [PDF]
, 2015 This article focuses on raising concern that anxiety–performance relationship theory has insufficiently catered for motoric issues during, primarily, closed and self-paced skill execution (e.g., long jump and javelin throw). Following a review of current
Carson, H.J.,, Collins, D.
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The Role of Mosques in Preventing Population Decline [PDF]
اسلام و مطالعات اجتماعی, 2021 The mosque and the role of the people of the mosque in guiding social activists in increasing the generation of believers is very important. Guiding the people towards the survival and increase of the pure generation will take place in the mosques.
سید میر صالح حسینی جبلی
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