In spite of China’s continued authoritarian political system, there is growing recognition that business lobbying is an integral part of the country’s policy process at both the local and national levels. As thousands of economic regulations and laws have become key determinants of the fate of industry, all types of companies—state-owned and private, Chinese and foreign—have become active in ev...

This pilot study used the framework of the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) to understand the challenges faced by Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) veterans as they reintegrate into the community. We conducted semistructured interviews with 14 injured veterans, 12 caregivers, and 14 clinicians. ...

Discussion of the democratic strengths or, more usually, weaknesses of the EU tends to focus on the degree of democracy that is available or possible at the EU level. Such thinking reflects a certain neo-functionalist logic that has governed much scholarly writing about the relationship between EU integration and democracy. It assumes that enhanced competences for EU institutions potentially cr...

The main objective of this study was to describe how the pro and anti-government media represented civil rights movement Ethiopian Muslims against religious indoctrination. Four online Media, two pro-government opposition Media were purposefully selected achieve objective. news articles presented from April 2012 March 2013 rigorously analyzed using steps suggested by Johnson Christensen (2004)....