The development and continuous improvement of campus networks brings new changes to the campus and college life, more and more students are turning to micro-blog to express their views and opinions, and through the micro blogging to achieve fast and efficient sharing and exchange of information and resources. In the micro blog era, the power of micro blogging can not only impact college student...

This paper considers political credibility of allocations in settings with dynamic private information. It embeds a benchmark dynamic moral environment into political economy games which feature repeated voting over mechanisms. Optimal politically credible allocations are shown to solve virtual planning problems with social discount factors in excess of the private one. JEL codes: C73, D72, D82...

Development communities in rich and poor countries have long been concerned about the minimal attention many political leaders in developing countries give to serious public health problems. Developing country officials often have different priorities than international actors, and efforts to make their priorities converge are complicated by the fact that there is little systematic research on ...

This paper argues that ethics education needs to become more reflective about its social and political ethic as it participates in the construction and transmission of medical ethics. It argues for a critical approach to medical ethics and explores the political context in medical schools and some of the peculiar problems in medical ethics education.

nations to totalitarian regimes, the exterminations of class and race, the world wars and revolutions, and also the apparent cultural degeneration of elites in democratic countries, whose members accommodated themselves one way or another to the power of these external regimes and to the movements that instigated them, to the geopolitical claims of the regimes over territory and the dogmatic cl...

Moving beyond simply documenting that political violence negatively impacts children, we tested a social-ecological hypothesis for relations between political violence and child outcomes. Participants were 700 mother-child (M = 12.1 years, SD = 1.8) dyads from 18 working-class, socially deprived areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland, including single- and two-parent families. Sectarian community v...