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The Institutional Foundation of Foreign-Invested Enterprises (FIEs) in China [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) are now an important component of the Chinese economy. Since 1992, the growth of FIEs has been exponential. However our understanding of the institutional factors driving the FIE growth remains limited. This paper uses
Huang, Yasheng
core  

Fiscal Equalisation in Australian Federalism: Share and Share Alike?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 71, Issue 4, Page 701-717, December 2025.
The sharing of revenue between the states to achieve fiscal equality has long been an important and internationally notable feature of Australian federalism. While horizontal fiscal equalisation is always prone to dispute, unprecedented conflict erupted in the Australian system in the second decade of this century and resulted in changes that brought ...
Alan Fenna, John Phillimore
wiley   +1 more source

Is multiculturalism as American as apple pie? A survey of attitudes toward ethnic and religious diversity in the United States

open access: yesEthos, Volume 53, Issue 4, December 2025.
Abstract What percentage of American citizens believe that the real America is a White Christian America? How many would prefer to live in a more homogeneous or singular country, one occupied primarily by members of their own ethnic, racial, or religious group?
Séamus A. Power   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Rebuilding to Restoring Political Order: A New Agenda for Failed Arab States

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 3-17, Winter 2025.
Abstract A new approach to rebuilding collapsed states is being trialed in the Arab world, most conspicuously by the Trump administration but with broad international support. This replaces the previous model—favoring democratic building blocks like inclusion, compromise, reconciliation, accountability, and citizenship—which is now seen as too costly ...
Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg
wiley   +1 more source

Citizens' Inclusion in Public Services: A Systematic Review of the Public Administration Literature and Reflection on Future Research Avenues

open access: yesPublic Administration, Volume 103, Issue 4, Page 1097-1119, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Despite a resurgence of interest in social equity, citizens' inclusion in public services has attracted limited attention in the public administration literature so far, having often remained in the background of studies focusing on citizens' participation and representative bureaucracy.
Tana Licsandru   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Federalism and regionalism in transition countries: A survey [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper provides a brief survey of the key contributions to the studies of the federalism and regionalism in transition states, specifically the countries of the Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
Libman, Alexander
core   +1 more source

Outlook and appraisal [June 2006] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Scottish economic growth continues to match growth in the UK and has done so as UK economic growth improved from the first quarter of 2005. Normally, Scottish economic growth would be expected to be stronger relative to the UK in a downturn and weaker in
Ashcroft, Brian
core   +1 more source

Political diversity in U.S. police agencies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 4, Page 1617-1635, October 2025.
Abstract Partisans are divided on policing policy, which may affect officer behavior. We merge rosters from 99 of the 100 largest local U.S. agencies—over one third of local law enforcement agents nationwide—with voter files to study police partisanship. Police skew more Republican than their jurisdictions, with notable exceptions.
Bocar Ba   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Putinism and Markets: How (and Why) Do They Fit Together?

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 4, Page 628-645, October 2025.
Abstract In Russia, positive attitudes toward a free market economy and competition are firmly associated with the “Western” intellectual imports the country experienced in the 1990s. Anti‐Western intellectuals and politicians typically embrace an anti‐market stance calling for an economy with greater level of governmental interventions.
Alexander Libman
wiley   +1 more source

Federal University’s Role in the Implementation of the Russian Federation “Soft Power” Conception in Central Asia (The Case of Northern (Arctic) Federal University Named After M.V. Lomonosov)

open access: yesVestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 4. Istorija. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija, 2020
Introduction. Currently the notion of the “soft power” is perceived as an effective way of nation’s non-forcible influence on other countries with a view to implement one’s own objectives. Suchlike implementation is confined to particular spheres to form a positive image of the nation.
Slavyana Boldyreva   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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