Political novel is one of the kinds of Persian Literature with special factors, which are different from other contemporary story writing styles.  These types of stories are more accommodated with critical discourse analysis (CDA) among other methods of novel analyses compared to other types, because of their specificity and unique quality of and their close relations with society and political...

politics as a new concept in iran is a subject that has involved various classes, statifications & groups. it has embraced different areas of iranians’ living. for existing researches have studied classes, iilat & some groups in iran’s political sociology, this research studies a group that political literature don’t give pay attention to that or belong on social history and very hard to study ...

The recent empirical growth literature has proposed three underlying fundamental determinants of economic growth, namely, physical geography, economic integration and institutional quality. This paper unpacks the final determinant into both political-economic institutions as well as the primarily political institution of democratic development. Using both cross-sectional and panel datasets, we ...

Context This paper is one of two that aim to explore further the theoretical framework of my research, and consider preliminary findings from the initial fieldwork. In this paper I return to the ‘political opportunities’ literature to consider what social movement theory would hypothesise about how movements emerge and have political consequences in a non-democratic context. I then test these h...

In this paper we model political risk for international capital budgeting as the value of a hypothetical insurance policy that pays the holder any and all losses arising from political events. We address three important aspects of political risk that are widely acknowledged in the literature but either missing or incomplete in existing mathematical models: 1) loss causing political events arise...

Prior research has demonstrated that feminine appearance is penalized in business contexts. However, a separate body of research, predominantly centered on electoral outcomes, has put forth conflicting results demonstrating that feminine appearance can be beneficial. In a series of experimental studies, I aim to resolve the conflict in the literature by proposing an expectationmatching theory. ...

This paper provides an overview of the dimensions of immigration into industrialised countries, its principal determinants and its economic impacts on the host countries. Furthermore, it assesses the state of social and political (voting) rights for immigrants in Western Europe. Finally, it reports findings in the economic literature concerning the influence of immigrant voting on economic outc...

The theoretical and often political framework of sexual exploitation and sex work among women is widely and enthusiastically debated among academic and legal scholars alike. The majority of theoretical literature in this area focuses on the macro perspective, while the micro-level perspective as to theory and causation remains sparse. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the philos...

Political principals typically use low-cost ‘‘fire-alarm’’ signals transmitted by the media, interest groups, and disaffected constituents to monitor the activities of regulatory agencies. We argue that regulatory decision making is biased and inconsistent if the instruments of political oversight are simple and the information flows to the principal are coarse relative to the complexity of the...