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Fostering Women's Political Leadership Through Government Accountability: Evidence From OECD Countries

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women remain significantly underrepresented in political leadership worldwide. This study examines how different combinations of government accountability mechanisms enhance women's political representation (WPR) as a pathway to leadership in 30 OECD countries.
Samira Nazar, Seyed Ashkan Zarghami
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Capital and Religious Rewards: A Study in the Economics of Religious Life [PDF]

open access: yes
Religious life is studied by way suggested by the rational choice theory and the religious capital theory. The basic contentions of the theory on the nature of religious life having to do with an exchange upon a religious market, by firms offering ...
Sergej Flere
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Religious Freedom as a Factor of Religious Pluralism: Theoretical Explanations

open access: yesВісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія: Соціологічні дослідження сучасного суспільства: методологія, теорія, методи, 2018
The article defines the features of contemporary discourse in the sociology of religion, in particular the peculiarities of the theory of religious economy. Religious freedom has been characterized as a key factor in religious pluralism.
Serhii Yaremchuk
doaj   +1 more source

Globalizing Comparative Public Administration With Integrative Contextualization: State Autonomy in the Developmental Path of Hong Kong and Singapore

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
wiley   +1 more source

Deep Religious Pluralism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Deep Religious Pluralism, edited by David Ray Griffin, Westminster John Knox Press, 2005. A groundbreaking scholarly work, Deep Religious Pluralism is based on the conviction that the philosophy articulated by Alfred North Whitehead encourages not only ...
RB
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The Necessity of Paying Attention to the "Third Pole" in Religious Education and its Impacts on Educational Settings (Instructors, Learners and Classroom)

open access: yesمسائل کاربردی تعلیم و تربیت اسلامی, 2018
The purpose of the present study was to explain the dimensions and components of religious-jurisprudential pluralism and to identify its impacts on religious educational settings. This descriptive-interpretive research was based on philosophical analysis.
Abolfazl Aliabadi   +3 more
doaj  

Governing the Third Sector in the Gulf: A Systematic Review of Emergence, Capacity, and Policy Dynamics in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Oman

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The third sector has emerged as an increasingly important actor in governance, social development, and public service delivery across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), yet scholarly understanding of its evolution, institutional capacity, and policy role remains fragmented and uneven.
Moosa Elayah   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religious monopolies, religious pluralism, and secularization : The relationship between religious pluralism and religious participation in Sweden [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In recent decades, the effects of religious pluralism on religious participation has been a much debated topic among sociologists of religion. During most of the 20th century, the traditional view among sociologists was that pluralism undermines religion
Hamberg, Eva
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