the present research has been conducted to study job satisfaction of students and the factors affecting it. method of this research is survey-based and data collection technique was questionnaire. reliability of the questionnaires was also confirmed with cronbach's alpha method. statistical population of the research includes all students studying in sciences and research branch. the stati...

This article studies the effect of parliamentary involvement on security policy. Building on Democratic Peace Theory, it examines whether democracies with a parliamentary veto power are indeed less likely to participate in military interventions, than democracies without such a veto power, ceteris paribus. By studying patterns of participation across 25 to 35 countries in five military missions...

INTRODUCTION Indigenous elders have traditionally played an important role in maintaining social cohesion within their communities. Today, part of this role has been taken over by government social and healthcare services, but they are having limited success in addressing social challenges. Increasing elders' social participation and intergenerational solidarity might foster community developme...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a pervasive topic in the business literature, but has largely neglected the role of institutions. This introductory article to the Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review examines the potential contributions of institutional theory to understanding CSR as a mode of governance. This perspective suggests going beyond grounding CSR in the voluntary b...

The political-economic institutions that have traditionally reconciled economic efficiency with social solidarity in the advanced industrial countries, and specifically in the so-called ‘coordinated market economies’, are indisputably under pressure today. However, scholars disagree on the trajectory and significance of the institutional changes we can observe in many of these countries, and th...

Abstract Considering the importance of conducting studies on youth, young girls in particular, and also the importance of paying attention to social capital and its role in development process of a society and decreasing social problems and loss; the present study is an attempt to investigate the structure of social capital and its constructing components (solidarity, social participation, eth...

Acknowledgments I thank Leen Stougie who has been an enormous help during my PhD research. His enthusiasm motivated me and people around me which created a great atmosphere for research. He advised me in many ways and most of this research was done with him. It am very happy to have Leen as advisor and supervisor. I thank Jan Karel Lenstra for his advise, and comments on my writings. I thank ev...

the aim of the present paper is to study the impact of public awareness and social cohesion on social participation of women in iran. since women constitute half of the population, their participation in political, economic, social and cultural areas can play an important role in community development. the study employs modernization approach as the conceptual framework and data collection is b...