A Causal Map Framework to Explain Support for Strong Leaders in Politics
International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article introduces a computational theory explaining why some people support strong leaders in politics, arguing that this support sometimes arises because people view a strong leader as means to address social problems. The theory proposes that people develop a causal map concerning the consequences of the rise of a strong leader.
Francesco Rigoli
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'Socialising' primary care? The Soviet Union, WHO and the 1978 Alma-Ata Conference. [PDF]
BMJ Glob Health, 2018 Birn AE, Krementsov N.
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Pan‐Europe Revisited: Inter‐War Debates and the EU's Pursuit of Geopolitical Power
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The European Union's (EU) transformation from a peace project to an assertive geopolitical actor reflects enduring tensions in integration theory dating back to the inter‐war period. This paper develops a comparative framework distinguishing territorial integration logic, which emphasises bounded political communities and collective defence ...
Kamil Zwolski
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Aussiedler Mortality (AMOR): cohort studies on ethnic German migrants from the Former Soviet Union. [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2019 Winkler V +7 more
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The ‘Geopolitical Commission’: 40 Years in the Making?
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In 2019, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised MEPs she would deliver a ‘Geopolitical Commission’ during the five years of her term in office, unbeknown that the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine were around the corner.
Robert Kissack
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‘This Is Not Europe’: Investigating the Commission's Anti‐Populist Articulation of ‘European Values’
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Whilst ‘populism’ is often considered antithetical to ‘European values’, how this contrast shapes the very meaning of such ‘values’ remains underexplored. This article investigates the European Commission's anti‐populist articulation of ‘European values’, which constructs ‘populism’ as their constitutive outside.
Alex Yates
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Molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 subtype A in former Soviet Union countries. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2018 Aibekova L +6 more
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Most classical theories of European integration look at internal mechanisms of polity formation (e.g., spillovers between policies for functionalism, increasing returns for institutionalism, public opinion for postfunctionalism, etc.). However, external mechanisms of polity formation are not as central in European integration theories except ...
Alexandru D. Moise +2 more
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Spatial distribution of arable and abandoned land across former Soviet Union countries. [PDF]
Sci Data, 2018 Lesiv M +19 more
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Vernacularizing the Best Interests of the Child: Comparative Insights From Three Legal Systems
Journal of Family Theory &Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The study investigates how the Best Interests of the Child principle in the UN Children's Rights Convention (Article 3) has been adapted in custody disputes in Egypt, Sweden, and Uzbekistan. Although the Convention on the Rights of the Child offers a common normative benchmark, divergent legal cultures shape its domestic meaning: Egypt is ...
Anna Lundberg +3 more
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