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The Political Identity: Between Qur'anic View and Western Theory
Buletin Al-Turas, 2023 Purpose: Identity nowadays has become very complicated in the political sphere. Political identity needs to be studied from two perspectives; Western theory and Islamic theory. Islamic political identity taken from the concept of the Qur'an.
Sujiat Zubaidi +3 more
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A Theory of Political Entrepreneurship [PDF]
Modern Economy, 2011 This paper adapts the entrepreneurial theory developed by Richard Cantillon, Frank Knight, and Ludwig von Mises to the theory of “political entrepreneurship.” Political entrepreneurship is an outgrowth of the theory of the market entrepreneur, and derives from extending entrepreneurial theory from the market into the po-litical sphere of action.
Mccaffrey, Matthew, Salerno, Joseph
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Impact of Farmers’ Associations on Household Income: Evidence from Tea Farms in Vietnam
Economies, 2020 Farmers’ associations play an important role to help members increase their access to supports of information, capital, and technology; bring benefits to members; and partly promote production, enhance productivity, and increase income.
Hung Van Vu, Huong Ho, Quoc Hoi Le
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Data‐driven performance metrics for neural network learning
International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, EarlyView., 2023 Summary Effectiveness of data‐driven neural learning in terms of both local mimima trapping and convergence rate is addressed. Such issues are investigated in a case study involving the training of one‐hidden‐layer feedforward neural networks with the extended Kalman filter, which reduces the search for the optimal network parameters to a state ...
Angelo Alessandri +2 more
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Bottom-up accountability and public service provision: Evidence from a field experiment in Brazil
Research & Politics, 2020 Does local oversight improve public service delivery? We study the effect of a mobile phone application that allows citizens to monitor school construction projects in Brazilian municipalities.
Danilo Freire +2 more
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Discourse: Education, Theory of Politics, and Politics of Theory
Przegląd Badań Edukacyjnych, 2023 In this paper, I revisit and reflect on my own and my research partners’ attempts at investigating the relationship between education and politics through the lens of discourse theory and discourse analysis methodology. This auto-analytical reflection corresponds to the shift in discourse studies from a technically understood discourse analysis to a ...
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Self-interest And Public Interest: The Motivations Of Political Actors [PDF]
, 2011 Self-Interest and Public Interest in Western Politics showed that the public, politicians, and bureaucrats are often public spirited. But this does not invalidate public-choice theory. Public-choice theory is an ideal type, not a claim that self-interest
Brennan Geoffrey +21 more
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The economic ethics of Calvinism. The reconciliation of piety and wealth
Annales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2017 The doctrine of predestination in the Lutheran and Calvinist theology, along with the assumption of a radical separation of nature and grace as well as the material and spiritual realm, had a significant impact on social life.
Lucyna Chmielewska
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Curriculum Theories and Their Politics in Ghana’s Pretetiary Education System
Journal of Digital Learning and Education, 2023 Ghana’s educational reforms are mostly influenced or initiated by politicians. The concept of politics is a means to an end and not an end in itself. This is experienced as a result of the cascading effect of the power of the macro level of curriculum ...
Atar Alphaa Mohammed
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Conspiracy Theories in Political Science and Political Theory
, 2020 This chapter considers elements of political science historical development, and presents the main topics and issues addressed by scholars and the different kind of methods they use to study conspiracy theories. It aims to synthesise the most relevant findings, which will lead us to attempt to give a definition of conspiracy theories that finds a ...
Giry, Julien, Tika, Pranvera
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