journal of world-systems research, x, 1, winter 2004, 255–285 Special Issue: Global Social Movements Before and After 9-11 http://jwsr.ucr.edu/ issn 1076–156x © 2004 Jackie Smith The Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization and subsequent resistance to global trade and investment negotiations highlight the growing centralization of economic and political power in entities that tran...

politics as an arena of macro decisions that influence on life of all human, from the start, connected to current thought in societies, but because that such conjunction done more according to necessity, events and or selectivity, therefore led to specific results for each two. in modern age, for the sake of birth of new age and its reciprocity with subjective and objective structures in past, ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects political connections on association between firms' business strategy and their tax aggressiveness in an emerging economy such as China. Design/methodology/approach authors study a large sample Chinese public firms from 2011 2017 using panel regression model. In addition, change analysis, instrument variable test alternative measur...

The observation of firms’ political connections (PCs) and corruption has raised the question their benefits to operation, especially on accessing financial resources. Firms with stronger or informal payment willingness may get easier in approaching formal bank loans. By using different types PCs bribe, study shows that while can help SMEs getting loans, bribe does not have any effect access cre...