The aim of this paper is to analyse the scientific and commercial survival strategy of the Ravetllat-Pla Institute after the Spanish Civil War. Founded in 1923 by Ramon Pla (1880-1956) and Joaquim Ravetllat (1872-1923), it produced two sera: 'Hemo-antitoxin' and the 'Ravetllat-Pla serum'. When the Civil War ended and Ramon Pla was forced into exile, management of this laboratory was taken over ...

Abstract The article examines the political and cultural processes of nation-building over thirty years independence in Belarus. It argues that becoming a nation-state Belarus has faced challenges similar to other post-Soviet nations but proved an exception choice strategies it used address them. paper how, on eve independence, nationalist elites devised policies aimed at consolidating statehoo...

Research on work-family conflict has focused on individuals, and little is known as to how spouses perceive each other’s work-family conflict and how inaccuracies of such perceptions relate to relationship quality. Using a national sample of dual-earner married and cohabiting couples (N = 545), we found that over half of spouses overestimate or underestimate each other’s work-family conflict. H...

Abstract On August 9, 2020, presidential elections were held in Belarus. Despite blatant electoral fraud and procedural violations, the official results declared Aleksandr Lukashenka reelected for a sixth term. While past, even most obviously fraudulent election have been followed by an atmosphere of resigned acceptance, this time countless Belarusians took to streets contest results. What made...

This study examines Cambodia’s implementation of the United Nations Convention on Rights Child (CRC). Corpus analysis civil society organisations’ submissions to Universal Periodic Review reveals a raft CRC violations, including sexual abuse, trafficking and child labour. is due political bureaucratic failings. The wider significance this lies in underlining how disjuncture between state underp...

In this paper, we construct a simple model of simultaneous change and persistence in institutions. The model consists of landowning elites and workers, and the key economic decision concerns the form of economic institutions regulating the transaction of labor (e.g., competitive markets versus labor repression). The main idea is that equilibrium economic institutions are a result of the exercis...

The impact of the Internet on Chinese politics is a hot topic in contemporary academic debate. Some scholars believe that political discussions in cyberspace will lead to a more pluralistic and democratic China. Others argue that the ruling Communist Party will strengthen its position by using the Internet as a tool for censorship and active propaganda. The purpose of this article is to contrib...