This study aims to a comparative study of development plans of Iran and South Korea over the past four decades with an emphasis on economic and political development using comparative historical; research method. Theoretical framework is derived from Amartya Sen, Shils and Adrian Leftwich theories. Results of this study depict that under development approach of South Korea, priority has been co...

Politics play a central part in determining health and development outcomes as Gorik Ooms highlights in his recent commentary. As health becomes more global and more politicized the need grows to better understand the inherently political processes at all levels of governance, such as ideological positions, ideas, value judgments, and power. I agree that global health research should strengthen...

Modern political life is heavily dependent and influenced by claims about facts made about participants in a Political System (seen here as sets of agents and organizations that govern a society). Such claims are commonly found in news stories, tweets, and social media postings, and, depending on each user, they may be considered “true” or “false”. The decision to act based on a fact contained ...

Terrorism studies have and continue to face conceptual and analytic challenges that stem from the assumption that terrorism can be understood outside of its social and political context, as essentially a ‘state’ of being and/or set of personal qualities specific to the terrorist (Sageman, 2004; Taylor & Horgan, 2006). An under-explored alternative to this view is to see involvement in terrorism...

Chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, and chronic obstructive respiratory diseases,are neglected globally despite growing awareness of the serious burden that they cause. Global and national policies have failed to stop, and in many cases have contributed to, the chronic disease pandemic. Low-cost and highly effective solutions for the prevention of chronic dis...

This paper develops a dynamic theory that accounts for the evolution of trade policy, underlying internal class con‡icts, and output growth performance over the last few centuries. By analyzing political responses to the distributional e¤ects of international trade, it …nds a prominent interaction between trade policy and the pattern of economic development, and also a signi…cant role for trade...

This article considers the emergence of large-scale “commons-based peer production” projects such as Wikipedia.org from an institutional development perspective. The argument it makes is threefold. First, that that the lowered transaction costs and information abundance found online transform a subset of public goods problems, essentially replacing free-ridership with mass coordination as the c...

ALTHOUGH PHYSICIANS COMPRISE FEWER THAN 2% OF MEMBERS OF CONgress, some of today’s most controversial political issues affect physician education, training, and practice, in addition to the public health. These issues include tort reform, abortion, bioterrorism, therapeutic and reproductive cloning, global warming, Medicare/Medicaid reform, and universal health coverage. The obstacles preventin...