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Unlocking citizen participation: Network characteristics, sense of power, and place attachment as key factors in regional settings

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses key factors related to citizen participation in place governance processes. We study how network characteristics (ties and trust), sense of power (ability to influence outcomes), and affective characteristics such as bond with place (place attachment) relate to resource‐intensive and resource‐extensive citizen ...
Laura Ripoll González   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impacts of water depth on pedestrian speed, gait, and stability: results from an experimental study

open access: yesActa Polytechnica CTU Proceedings
Under rapid socio-economic development and increasingly frequent extreme weather events, flood disasters have led to growing losses and casualties, highlighting the importance of understanding pedestrian dynamics in flooded environments.
Xintong Li   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Strategic Swaying: How Startups Grow Digital Platforms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Digital platforms can bring tremendous business benefits to their owner companies if they attract and sustain substantial users. Digital platform growth strategies for this purpose, as suggested by the extant literature, often require technological ...
Nandhakumar, Joe, Wang, Gongtai
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How Leaders With Dark Personality Shape Their Climates: Developing a Theory of Influence Tactics and Follower Responses

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite burgeoning attention to dark leaders, we lack understanding about how they shape their climates. Using the dark triad (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy), we integrate social psychology and leadership research on interpersonal, romantic and leader–follower relationships to identify two predominant influence strategies ...
Al‐Karim Samnani, Sadia Jahanzeb
wiley   +1 more source

‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 74-82, January/March 2025.
Abstract Women were identified as key targets in the 2024 British general election. There was much speculation as to whether ‘Whitby’ or ‘Waitrose’ women would swing the result for Labour. This interest in women voters stemmed, at least partially, from the fact that the 2017 and 2019 British general elections were the first where a modern gender gap—a ...
Rosie Campbell   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Values in the Valence Election: Fragmentation and the 2024 General Election

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 26-36, January/March 2025.
Abstract The 2024 general election delivered a verdict on an unpopular Conservative government, a valence election where the key motivation was to remove a government seen as failing. But this is not a full account of the voting choices of the British public.
Paula Surridge
wiley   +1 more source

‘Why didn't you bring us a pumpkin?’ Relational recognition of caste, class, and tribe in rural Andhra Pradesh, India « Pourquoi ne nous as‐tu pas apporté de citrouille ? » Reconnaissance relationnelle de la caste, de la classe et de la tribu dans les zones rurales de l'Andhra Pradesh (Inde)

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses the ways characteristics associated with the ‘Schedule Tribe’ (‘ST’) category in India shape situated acts of relating to others with either deference or assumed superiority. Ethnography shows how within an indigenous Adivasi community the traits that determine identification within the group generate feelings of entitlement and ...
Thomas Herzmark
wiley   +1 more source

A study on the animations of swaying and breaking trees based on a particle-based simulation

open access: yes, 2012
In this paper, we propose a particle-based simulation method to create the animations of swaying and breaking trees. Since the shapes of trees and their realistic motions are usually complex, it is difficult for us to create an animation of a swaying ...
Akagi, Yasuhiro, Kitajima, Katsuhiro
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The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
wiley   +1 more source

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