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Working, Shirking, and Sabotage
, 1997 Bureaucrats perform most of the tasks of government, profoundly influencing the daily lives of Americans. But who, or what, controls what bureaucrats do?John Brehm and Scott Gates examine who influences whether federal, state, and local bureaucrats work, shirk, or sabotage policy.
John Brehm, Scott Gates
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The Political Fragility of the Current Regime in China
Revue de la Régulation, 2017 Susan Shirk is the Chair of the 21st Century China Center and Research Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California - San Diego.
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Strategic Shirking in Bilateral Trade* [PDF]
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2021 AbstractIn this paper, I study bilateral trade, where the seller can undertake specific investments before the binary trade transaction takes place. I identify a novel reason for hold‐up and contractual inefficiency in this canonical setting. The investing party can shirk for strategic reasons; that is, exert an effort so low that trade becomes ...
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Designing a Self-Paced Learning Experience to Support Learner Self-Regulation
Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology, 2020 This reflective paper examines how course designers utilized multiple frameworks for motivation and educational psychology to support learner self-regulation in an open, self-paced learning experience.
Jennifer Shirk
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“Cleansing the Earth of the Stench of Shirk”
Journal of Religion and Violence, 2019 Current research on jihadism is dominated by the policy and security perspectives that characterize terrorism studies, leaving jihadist culture underexplored.
P. Nanninga
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Tawhid Uluhiyyah (Oneness of Worship) and Veneration of Saints Tradition
Jurnal Indo-Islamika, 2021 This study examines the arguments of saints veneration according to Ayatollah Ja’far al-Subhani’s as one of the Shia Muslim scholars. This is qualitative study using literary research methods to obtain and analyze data with descriptive analysis ...
Muchammad Ikfil Chasan, Arif Zamhari
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Theological principles of communicative (Takfiri) thought [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 Looking at the calamities that have inflicted on the Islamic society by its atheistic currents, it is indispensable to confront and fight against it radically.
Alinejad Omran Ruhollah, Abdollahi Mousa
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MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2022 Genomic surveillance is a critical tool for tracking emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), which can exhibit characteristics that potentially affect public health and clinical interventions, including increased ...
A. Lambrou +63 more
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The fundamental problem of command : plan and compliance in a partially centralised economy [PDF]
, 2005 When a principal gives an order to an agent and advances resources for its implementation, the temptations for the agent to shirk or steal from the principal rather than comply constitute the fundamental problem of command.
A Bergson +18 more
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MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2023 CDC has used national genomic surveillance since December 2020 to monitor SARS-CoV-2 variants that have emerged throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, including the Omicron variant. This report summarizes U.S.
K. C. Ma +32 more
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