Neoliberal city policy has become central for urban planning and (re)development in postsoviet St. Petersburg. Competing views on how space should be organized make citizens consolidate buck the decisions of strong advocacy groups. This paper considers contestation by dwellers elites early times establishment spread neoliberal rhetoric policy. It focuses four cases local communities struggling ...

Recent studies on political trust during the Covid-19 pandemic diagnosed a rally-around-the-flag effect leading to exceptionally high levels of in politics. While this finding has been established over various country contexts, our understanding precise dynamics behind rally remains limited. In paper, we argue that socio-demographic characteristics, particular age differences, as well pre-exist...

In recent years, fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, has emerged as one of the most serious invasive species in many countries across Africa, Asia and Oceania. The pest is causing extensive damage to maize production intensification pesticide use. this paper, we examined effectiveness three mass-extension channels (plant health rallies, radio drama SMS) enhancing farmers' knowledge mana...

Traditional methods used to partition the market index into bull and bear regimes often sort returns ex post based on a deterministic rule. We model the entire return distribution; two states govern the bull regime and two govern the bear regime, allowing for rich and heterogeneous intra-regime dynamics. Our model can capture bear market rallies and bull market corrections. A Bayesian estimatio...

In tournaments in various sports that feature one-on-one competition, the trophy is sometimes prominently displayed near the athletes during the final. Based on recent research on subtle reward cues, we propose that such trophies have the potential to induce choking under pressure in the match favourites, who are known to be most at risk. To test this idea, we analysed real-life tennis performa...