Recently, the call to combine land change science (LCS) and political ecology (PE) in the study of human-environment interactions has been widely discussed by scientists from both subfields of geography. In this paper, we use a hybrid ecology framework to examine the effects of conservation policies on the environment and the livelihood of the people of the Korup National Park (KNP). Using tech...

In many engineered and natural multi-agent networked systems, a limited subset of agents, called leaders, have access to external information, while the remaining agents, called followers, obtain information through network connections. In this dissertation, we connect measures of group-level performance with properties of the underlying network. Specifically, we determine which nodes in the ne...

Despite the large amount of research into both media coverage of politics as well as political leadership, surprisingly little research has been devoted to the ways political leaders are discussed in the media. This paper studies whether computer-aided content analysis can be applied in examining political leadership images in Dutch newspaper articles. It, firstly, provides a conceptualization ...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the political, social and economic background of the divergence of Belarusian and Ukrainian transitions. We focus on Belarus in order to find explanation for questions such as why could Lukashenko remain the authoritarian leader of Belarus, while in Ukraine the position of the political elite had proved less stable and collapsed in 2004. On the theoretical fr...

Maxwell Lehman, for nearly sixteen years editor of the Civil Service LEADER, has taken a leave of absence in order to assume a new role. He was named this week Deputy City Administrator for the City of New York. The appointment was announced by Dr. Luther GuUck, City Administrator, who described his new deputy as "a recognized expert in government admini.stration, known for his integrity and no...

Many successful political parties depend for their initial popularity and cohesion, and even for their long-term brand strength, on a leader. Nevertheless, literature on successful party building downplays the role of leaders. Thus, the question, what type of leader is good for party building?, remains undertheorized. This article presents and provides initial evidence for a leadership-centered...

With the changing economic circumstances confronting their countries, regionally concentrated minorities have been facing a strategic problem, important aspects of which can be stylized as a situation in which a minority leader is uncertain about the costs of secession for her community. This paper shows that this uncertainty is a central cause of secession, using a model which incorporates bot...

political islam is the only active religion discourse in the world claiming to have program for religion and the muslim world and to achieve this goal it must gain political power. from its existence the dialogue has triggered different experiences in islamic countries. the most important victory of the islamic revolution in iran in 1979 and egypt's muslim brotherhood movement was to seize...

This article recognises the potential importance of Islamic finance products in Australia, along with the current regulatory impediments preventing Australia from becoming a leader in the Asia-Pacific Islamic finance market. Taking into account the potential importance of, and impediments to, Islamic finance, this article highlights, through the historical development and contemporary state of ...