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Optimal National policies towards multinationals when local regions can choose between firm-specific and non-firm-specific policies [PDF]
This paper looks at a country's optimal central-government optimal policy in a setting where its two identical local jurisdictions compete to attract footloose multinationals to their sites, and where the considered multinationals strictly prefer this country to the rest of the world.
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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THE CONTROL OF THE STATE SECURITY SERVICES FROM THE MIDDLE OF 1966 UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF 1975
Pravo, 2020 The Brioni plenum took place in mid 1966. It was carefully planned and prepared beforehand. The decisions made there will have a crucial importance and far-reaching consequences for the fate of Yugoslavia at the time.
Radojica Lazić
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Волинський благовісник, 2019 Prior to the partition of the Kyiv Metropole in 1448 into Kyiv proper and Moscow ones, we possess some historical evidence of the existence of extremely interesting and original practice of “monthly courts”. Based on the sources that have surivived until
archpriest Volodymyr Vakin
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Is There a There There: Towards Greater Certainty for Internet Jurisdiction [PDF]
16 (3) Berkeley Tech. LJ (forthcoming 2001), 2001 The unique challenge presented by the Internet is that compliance with local laws is rarely sufficient to assure a business that it has limited its exposure to legal risk. The paper identifies why the challenge of adequately accounting for the legal risk arising from Internet jurisdiction has been aggravated in recent years by the adoption of the Zippo
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Teacher self‐efficacy: Validating a new measurement scale to capture the elusive construct
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Teachers’ beliefs in their ability to positively impact students’ learning outcomes has become a strong indicator of teachers’ motivation and behaviour towards the instructional strategies they employ. However, measuring the broader concept of teacher self‐efficacy is still somewhat problematic as current scales are dated, have measurement ...
Stuart Woodcock +2 more
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A Guideline Value for Dioxin‐Like Compounds in Marine Sediments
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 257-271, January 2023., 2023 Abstract Sediments to be dredged as part of the installation of a harbor crossing in Sydney, Australia, contained measurable concentrations of dioxin‐like compounds. To assess the suitability of these sediments for ocean disposal, a defensible sediment quality guideline value (SQGV) for dioxin‐like compounds, expressed as pg toxic equivalent (TEQ)fish ...
Therese Manning, Graeme E. Batley
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Characterizing and Avoiding Routing Detours Through Surveillance States [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 An increasing number of countries are passing laws that facilitate the mass surveillance of Internet traffic. In response, governments and citizens are increasingly paying attention to the countries that their Internet traffic traverses. In some cases, countries are taking extreme steps, such as building new Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), which allow
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Constructing the Caribbean Court of Justice: How Ideas Inform Institutional Choices
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2012 :The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is a relatively new legal institution in the Caribbean. This article explores the question of where this specific way of institutionalizing conflict resolution came from and in which way its success (or lack of it ...
Joris Kocken, Gerda van Roozendaal
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Disclosure Dynamism: TCFD Aligned Climate Claims of UK Corporates
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research examines how climate claims by companies from the United Kingdom have changed over the years, especially when they became certain about the mandate of the Taskforce on Climate‐related Financial Disclosure (TCFD). We use text data from FTSE 100 companies for eight consecutive years, starting from 2016, and apply the robust ...
Daniel González Cortés +3 more
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