Do Optimists Like Vaccines? The Effect of Perceived Vaccine Novelty and Beliefs in the World’s Positivity and Orderliness on the Attitudes toward COVID-19 Vaccinations—The Case of European Young Adults [PDF]
Vaccines, 2022 The public debate over COVID-19 vaccinations tends to focus on vaccine-related arguments, such as their effectiveness and safety. However, the characteristics of a person’s worldview, such as beliefs about the world’s positivity and orderliness, may also
Wojciech Trzebiński, Jerzy Trzebiński
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Frontiers in Political Science, 2023 Techno-optimists with a more cosmopolitan focus agree that E-voting lies at the heart of implementing e-government and digitalization into democratic structures.
Isabelle Borucki, Florian Hartleb
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Euro-optimism or euroscepticism: Opinions of students from Serbia, Macedonia and Bulgaria
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2019 The paper presents the opinions of students from two countries (Serbia and Macedonia) that strive to join the European Union and from one member country (Bulgaria) about the changes that brings the EU membership.
V Miltojević
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"My patients are better than yours": optimistic bias about patients' medication adherence by European health care professionals. [PDF]
Patient preference and adherence, 2016 sponsorship: We would like to thank all survey partners for their assistance with data collection across Europe. Austria: Lorenz Auer-Hackenberg, Department of Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna; Univ Lekt Dr Heimo Lagler, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of ...
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Unmotivated or motivated to fail? A cross-cultural study of achievement motivation, fear of failure, and student disengagement [PDF]
, 2016 A classic distinction in the literature on achievement and motivation is between fear of failure and success orientations. From the perspective of self-worth theory, these motives are not bipolar constructs but dimensions that interact in ways that make
Byrne, Donald +2 more
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Lessons from, and Implications of, the Russia-Ukraine War for a Future Taiwan Strait Scenario [PDF]
Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, 2022 The geopolitical pressure that had built up between Russia and Ukraine in the Donbas region since 2014 finally erupted with Putin’s “special military operation” on 24th February 2022.
Hon-min Yau
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The political system of European Union after European Parliament Election of 2019
Європейські історичні студії, 2019 The politics of the European Union are different from other organizations and states due to the unique nature of the EU. The common institutions mix the intergovernmental and supranational aspects of the EU.
Andrii Martynov
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Positions of the Leading European Parties on the Eve of the European Parliament Elections 2024 [PDF]
Современная ЕвропаThe article analyses the main trends in the transformation of the party and political system of the European Union on the eve of the next elections to the European Parliament in June 2024. The article examines the main events of recent years that had the
Boris P. Guseletov
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Russia and its neighbours: East or West? [PDF]
, 2008 As ‘Europe’ becomes more diverse, the countries that were formerly part of the USSR face new choices. One of the most fundamental is whether they identify with the economic and military institutions of the ‘West’, such as NATO and the European Union, or ...
McAllister, I., White, S.
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In search of liberal Tsarism: the historiography of autocratic decline [PDF]
, 2002 The idea that the autocracy might have successfully modernized itself has, in recent years, spread widely beyond academic circles. However, a look at traditional and recent historiography shows that very few historians support this line.
Read, Christopher
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