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Terrorism and religious fundamentalism: Prospects for a predictive paradigm [PDF]

, 2006
Although fundamentalism is neither new nor limited to one culture, globalized communications and recent political events have highlighted Christian and Muslim forms.
Pratt, Douglas
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Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou, Sergei Schaub, Martin Quaas, Robert Finger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of Political Connections and Efficiency on Financial Performance and Its Implications on Firm Value

JDE (Journal of Developing Economies), 2023
This research aims to determine the influence of political connections and efficiency on financial performance and their implications for stock value. The research design employed in this study is quantitative research.
Raihan Hazim, Elis Mediawati
doaj   +1 more source

Frozen in Place: European American Ideologies and the Inuit [PDF]

, 1994
It has been claimed by Hugh Brody that European Americans maintain strong ideological connections between Inuit people and the Arctic environments they inhabit.
Buege, Douglas J.
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen, Leon Englberger, Jens Rommel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Educating Britain? Political Literacy and the Construction of National History [PDF]

, 2014
Despite the reflexive nature of historical enquiry and the degree of national interconnectness now theorized by historians in the United Kingdom, education debates over history teaching in Britain often yield a comforting defence of Britain's 'island ...
Barton, Barton, Bennett, Bevir, Biesta, Breuilly, Brocklehurst, Brocklehurst, Cannadine, Connolly Paula, Conway, Cooper, Crawford, Daugherty, Department for Education (DoE), Department for Education and Science (DES), DfEE (Department for Education and Employmnet), Economou, Fass, Garton-Ash, Geruluk, Goalen, Grant, Grek, Grek, Grek, Grek, Grever, Heider, Jamali, Jenkins, Law, Lawn, Lawn, Learning Wales, Marsden, Marshall, Marshall, McCrone, Nóvoa, Nóvoa, Ozga, Philippou, Philippou, Phillips, Phillips, Phillips, Pocock, Prochaska, Reicher, Ribeiro, Savvides, Scottish Executive, Stow, Thane, Trowler   +55 more
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli, Simone Severini, Mauro Vigani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analyzing individual rent price ratios in eastern German agricultural land markets: A GAMLSS approach

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels, Cord‐Friedrich von Hobe, Miryam Sarah Merk, Thomas Kneib, Oliver Musshoff   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political Connections and Income Smoothing: Does Ownership Structure Matter?

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan
This study aims to examine the effect of political connections on income smoothing. In addition, this study seeks to investigate whether ownership structure, as operationalized by institutional and managerial ownership, strengthens or weakens the ...
Imanuela Wahyu Krisdina, Yeterina Nugrahanti   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme's The Reign of Wazobia [PDF]

, 2017
Nigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests.
Kanika Batra
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