Political shocks are used extensively in research on foreign policy and international politics yet the analysis of political shocks, as its own topic study, remains underdeveloped, especially so when compared to analyses other key concepts field. What we do know about primarily comes from work where focus is typically phenomena driving inquiry. In this effort reconceptualize what meant by focus...

Social initiatives that seek to promote socially fairer and environmentally more sustainable food production distribution schemes have multiplied in the last two decades. Several studies analysed their impacts showed high contextual variability, making visible some of contradictions. This research is interested Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) as spaces political mobilisation aim modify predomi...

The study evaluates an alternative initial teacher education programme launched nationwide by the Israeli Ministry of Education (MoE) at height COVID-19 crisis. aimed to attract unemployed academics teaching, thereby providing a response shortage. To advance programme, MoE relaxed its strict regulations and granted training institutions further autonomy develop their own programmes. After three...

This paper introduces an algorithm to determine near-optimal control laws for Markov Decision Processes with a risk-sensitive criterion. Both the fully observed and the partially observed settings are considered, for nite and innnite horizon formulations. Dynamic programming equations are introduced which characterize the value function for the partially observed, innnite horizon , discounted c...