tionships. Whether it is examining the persuasive impact of public service announcements on attitudes and behavior, determining the impact of viewing political debates on political knowledge or voter turnout, or assessing whether success in achieving one’s Internet browsing goals prompts greater interest in e-commerce, communication scholars frequently conduct research to answer questions about...

This paper tries to explain why high inflation levels persist during long periods of time, in several countries affected by chronic inflation, without the necessary corrective measures being implemented. Political models of conflict explain these delays as the result of coordination problems caused by collective choice-making mechanisms. The empirical results of a tobit model estimated over a p...

The causes of seat change in midterm elections have been debated for decades. Some political scientists believe seat change is caused by heightened national conditions; others argue seat change is a result of conditions within districts. Political scientists agree however that candidate quality affects election outcomes. In general, the party that recruits the highest quality candidates and run...

Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States: Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals’ Costs (Even Lowering One’s Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust dismissal, right-to-work,...

in recent years, the topic of desertification has been discussed in different ways in scientific areas. this event occurred globally, regionally and nationally and many steps were taken to stop it. desertification is challenged universally and its destructive effects are unavoidable and its consequences do endanger the life of inhabitants. the identification of sensitive regions and prevention ...

death is one of the main issues in samih ghasem works; because he paid special attention to it in his works. the present paper studies his ideologies about death as well as his motivations on expressing this issue. his aesthetic view strengthens resistance spirit in his hometown fellows and causes changing in their view point on death. this article has been done in descriptive – analytic method...

the calling of the ancient characters in modern arabic poem that inspires the poets needs some more researches to clear the content of the odes. this paper attempts to study the influence of the ancient characters in the poem of the famous contemporary egyptian poet, amal donqol (1941-1983). the poet tries to taking advantage from three techniques: name, role and speech. in his poem and change ...

A growing literature demonstrates increasing remunicipalization of local public services. Yet, while this is becoming extensive, many debates still exist about remunicipalization’s causes. This article reports the findings a meta-analysis literature, focusing on question: how do country, sector and method effects affect studies? I include articles under different terms (‘remunicipalization’, ‘r...

President Obama has recently announced an additional $50 billion to support the development of healthcare informatics and electronic patient records systems. Public attention has, therefore, focused on ensuring that such investments do not suffer from the failures that have afflicted previous large-scale software procurements. This paper analyses a number of recent failures that have affected a...