Political science has long debated the significance of protest during a democratic transition, but attention been largely confined to its impact on elite support for democracy. Contributing scholarship attitudinal consequences mobilization, we examine how shaped popular perceptions democracy post-Mubarak transition in Egypt. We do this by matching wave 2 Arab Barometer survey with georeferenced...

The Brazilian Anti-Terrorism Bill (no. 13.260/2016) was drafted and approved in the context of street demonstrations to have occurred from 2013 2015 state violence erupted their wake, linked major sporting events held over period. An examination process by which this legislation implemented prompts a debate its constitution as legal mechanism able justify extraordinary measures within formal de...

conclusions the current study showed significant association between the rosenberg self-esteem test results and smoking, and illegal drug abuse like heroin, pills, alcohol, nas, and other substances. therefore, increasing self-esteem is essential for preventing the adolescents’ emotional and behavioral disorders. this fact could guide us to the new approaches for smoking and drug-abuse preventi...

criticizing the drawbacks of modern societies, lyotard glorifies the changing of meta-narration to show lack of such narrations totally. for him such a condition or changing of sub-narrations to periphery ones gives him an opportunity to self-expression and survival chance, which by intention to solidarity, stability, etc. they have been deprived of their identity, but keeping eternality of suc...

Are democracies better at winning wars and militarized disputes? Is there an advantage associated with initiating a war or dispute? Noting that pairwise contest data are the norm in applied research, we motivate a straightforward Bradley–Terry statistical model for these problems from first principles, which will allow for a closer integration of theoretical and statistical practice for scholar...

This study aims to determine differences in self-esteem terms of parenting patterns street children. Self-esteem is an individual's assessment both positive and negative shows the degree which individual able believe that he important valuable give appreciation, evaluation, approval himself how far can like himself. research uses quantitative methods, with a comparative approach. The sampling t...

Drivers in urban neighborhoods who patrol streets, seeking inexpensive on-street parking create a significant fraction of measured traffic congestion. The pool of drivers patrolling at any time can be modeled as a queue, where ‘queue service’ is the act of parking in a recently vacated parking space and queue discipline is SIRO – Service In Random Order. We develop a queueing model of such driv...

This article analyses the origins, development and comparative success centre-right in the Czech Republic. It focuses principally on the the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) of Václav Klaus, but also discusses a number of smaller Christian Democratic, liberal and anti-communist groupings, insofar as they sought to provide right-wing alternatives to Klaus’s party. In comparative terms, the article s...