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What Makes Autocracies’ Soft Power Strategies Special? Evidence from Russia and China [PDF]

, 2016
The paper problematizes the national soft power strategies of authoritarian states arguing that many of their features stem from those countries’ political regime.
Patalakh, Artem
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Is the well‐known phrase ‘small is beautiful’ true of small transnational education institutions?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this research is to consider the potential attractiveness of operating a small international branch campus (IBC). Drawing upon resource‐based and legitimacy theories, we examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with the business model that is based on having a small institution size.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamics of Ukrainian support for authoritarianism before and after the large-scale Russian invasion: the impact of traumatic wartime events [PDF]

Соціологія
Following the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, Ukrainians were confronted with forced restrictions on political life, including its pluralistic media and competitive elections.
Oleksandr Reznik
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Reflections on the Independent Mass Media of Post-Soviet Countries and Political Competitiveness

Politics in Central Europe, 2021
The aim of this paper is to analyse political activity in the mass media discourses of states with more democratic and more authoritative regimes respectively, so as to show a clear difference in the context of a formal analysis of mass media content ...
Steblyna Nataliia, Dvorak Jaroslav
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Threat and right-wing attitudes: a cross-national approach [PDF]

, 2013
Threat relates to right-wing ideological attitudes at the individual level. The present study aims to extend this relationship to the national level. More specifically, in a sample of 91 nations, we collected country-level indicators of threat (including
Cornelis, Ilse, Onraet, Emma, Van Hiel, Alain   +2 more
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Measuring what matters: Evaluating the impact of curriculum decolonisation initiatives in UK business schools

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Curriculum decolonisation has become a prominent feature of equity agendas in UK higher education, yet there remains limited empirical and theoretical work on how such initiatives are evaluated, particularly within business schools. This paper presents one of the first multi‐institutional empirical studies examining how UK business schools ...
Sally Everett, Rachael Carden, Kenisha Linton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Liberal-conservative asymmetries in anti-democratic tendencies are partly explained by psychological differences in a nationally representative U.S. sample

Communications Psychology
Based on theory and research in political psychology, we hypothesized that liberal-conservative differences in right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and political system justification would contribute to asymmetries in anti ...
Débora de Oliveira Santos, John T. Jost
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Democracy in secessionism: Transnistria and Abkhazia\u2019s domestic policies [PDF]

, 2006
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Popescu, Nicolae
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Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Summary Authoritarialism as Political Regime: Analysis of Historical and Empirical Studies

Проблемы постсоветского пространства, 2017
This article is devoted to the problems of existence of authoritarian regimes. The ambiguity of the resulting data determines the importance of the considered research. Authoritarianism is quite complicated socio-political phenomenon.
O. D. Grossman
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