Politicians in the United States are coming under increasing scrutiny from fact-checkers like PolitiFact, Factcheck.org, and the Washington Post Fact Checker, who examine the accuracy of public statements that are often reported without challenge by traditional news organizations. However, we know little about the effects of this practice, especially on public officials. One possibility is that...

based on a meta-theoretical analysis of voting, the present paper is an attempt to present a theoretical model encompassing all the possible aspects of voting in an election action system, proposing four sub-systems of voting as follows: economic voting, political voting, cultural voting and moral voting. having distinguished among these sub-systems, the writer describes the constitutive elemen...

This study defines organizational learning as greater cognizance of action–outcome relationships and the effects that environmental events have on these relationships. It shows that two learning mechanisms, adaptation-in-use and change catalysis, are key factors in realizing gains from the implementation of administrative innovations. Adaptation-in-use denotes ongoing adjustment of the innovati...

This study presents the basic lines of electronic administration in Spain. The complexity of the Spanish political-administrative system makes such a study challenging, in view of the considerable degree of autonomy and competences of the regional administrative bodies and local agencies with respect to the central government, the former being more visible in the 17 regions of Spain. Nonetheles...

This paper argues that ERP systems take the part of an organization’s administrative paradox. An administrative paradox is two sides of the same coin when coordinating organizations – the concurrent striving for flexibility and stability. The analysis of the ERP system is based on an interpretative and qualitative case study of an engineering firm. The theoretical lens used in this paper is str...

purpose: the initiation of anti-bullying movements in schoolsdates back to nearly three decades ago in some countries. despite the importance of such a movement and its grave implications foreducation systems, no particular program or action has been organized in our country. materials and method: the present study presents a cross-sectional descriptive survey to assess the attitudes of primary...