Lobbying - Science topic

RESUME / ABSTRACT : Pierre J-Y. Le Blavec (juin 2025), "Mes carnets de campagnes électorales : ou l'engagement citoyen au service du Handicap (PSH/RQTH/BOEH) / My electoral campaign notebooks : or citizen benevolent-engagement for Disability in Europe." - DEDICACE / TRIBUTE : en respectueux hommage de la mémoire ; et en amical souvenir, des sénateu...

QUOTATIONS / CITATIONS : "Knowledge of Science, without conscience, is but the ruin of the soul [is the soul's perdition ...] Since, it is my feeling that Ignorance is the "mother "of all evils ; and Time is the "father" of truth. ("Science sans conscience, n'est que ruine de l'âme [...] Car, selon moi ; l'ignorance est mère de tous les maux ; et l...

Ce colloque international, co-organisé par le Céditec (Créteil), le Ceraps (Lille) et le Cens (Nantes), entend examiner le rôle des acteurs non étatiques dans les pratiques répressives visant les mouvements sociaux, les activistes et, plus largement, toutes celles et ceux qui tentent de remettre en question l’ordre social et politique. Il propose e...

Epistemic communities, as reconceptualized by M. K. Davis Cross, are networks of professionals with recognized, policy-relevant expertise who influence decision-making through shared knowledge, norms, and practices. While the term was initially applied to scientists advising policymakers during moments of crisis or uncertainty, Cross expands its sc...

Durante las dos últimas décadas, la derecha populista ha coordinado una campaña transnacional en contra de iniciativas públicas y privadas que promoviesen la igualdad en materia de género y sexualidad (Sauer et ál., 2017). Con el fin de legitimar dicha causa sin aparentar un discurso abiertamente discriminatorio, una de las estrategias ha consistid...

How do changing interest rates influence lobbying expenditure? I study a two-stage game consisting of a policy-maker and heterogeneous firms that produce partial substitutes. The policy-maker chooses whether to implement a reform that will raise production costs or maintain the status quo. Firms can allocate capital to lobbying the policymaker for...

On June 13, 2025—Friday the 13th—Israel launched a sweeping preemptive strike on Iran, igniting the most direct and devastating war the Middle East has seen in a generation. This paper examines the ideological, political, and theological forces that laid the groundwork for that war, focusing on the role of what we define as Ziocons: a coalition of...

This paper examines the critical role of advocacy in driving legal reform, with an emphasis on communication tactics that enhance the effectiveness of advocacy efforts. It begins by tracing the historical context of legal advocacy and the rise of organized reform movements. The paper highlights how interest groups, legal professionals, and NGOs uti...

Pentingnya media online dalam menyebarluaskan informasi dan meningkatkan keterlibatan komunitas. Publikasi atau penyebaran informasi kini dapat dilakukan oleh siapa pun, kapan saja, dan melalui berbagai media, baik cetak maupun elektronik. Teknologi informasi modern, khususnya internet, memungkinkan penyebaran informasi tanpa batas ruang dan waktu,...

This study sought to examine the effects of public debt and official development assistance (ODA) on the balance of trade in selected Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states. The goal was to provide actionable policy insights that could help enhance regional economic stability. This study created a hybrid methodology that combined a panel ordin...

Pentingnya media online dalam menyebarluaskan informasi dan meningkatkan keterlibatan komunitas. Publikasi atau penyebaran informasi kini dapat dilakukan oleh siapa pun, kapan saja, dan melalui berbagai media, baik cetak maupun elektronik. Teknologi informasi modern, khususnya internet, memungkinkan penyebaran informasi tanpa batas ruang dan waktu,...

A major debate is underway in China on a proposed law that would grant new rights to Chinese workers. The debate has not been widely reported outside of China; until recently it has been almost entirely ignored by media in the United States. But when the Chinese government opened a 30-day public comment period this spring, it received nearly 200,00...

The opportunity for the public to give their opinion and follow the development of legislation is not only a practice of full-fledged democracy and good governance, but also an opportunity for the public administration to obtain information, knowledge and analysis that it did not have access to. The aim of this study is to analyse the impact of dig...

Komunikasi adalah dasar dari seluruh kegiatan antar manusia. Karena tanpa komunikasi interaksi antar manusia, baik secara perorangan, kelompok maupun organisasi tidak mungkin terjadi. Sebagian besar interaksi manusia berlangsung dalam situasi komunikasi antar pribadi. Lobby adalah suatu upaya informal yang bersifat persuasif yang dilakukan oleh sat...

Research on ethnic lobbying has largely neglected the perspectives of Arab Americans, creating a disconnect between this community and their lobbying efforts. This gap is crucial because it threatens to widen the disconnect between Arab Americans and their lobbying groups, where effective lobbying depends on a unified message. Existing studies high...

This research aims to analyze the way that language constructs the perceptions of public opinion and nation, going beyond simply studying language through a comparative linguistic study of the representations of the war on Gaza in Iraqi media discourses and official governmental discourses. The study uses a quantitative approach through designed qu...

Overwatch 2, a prominent team-based hero shooter, relies on its competitive mode to foster player engagement and longevity. A cornerstone of this experience is fair matchmaking, which ideally aims to create balanced matches where both teams have an approximately equal chance of victory. The game's rank calibration system, implemented most heavily d...

This study examines the dynamics of nonprofit engagement in advocacy, lobbying, and civic activities through the lens of bounded rationality. Although 501(c)(3) nonprofits are legally permitted to advocate and lobby on behalf of their constituents and the sector, only 31 % reported engaging in such activities over the past five years. To better und...

This paper investigates the effectiveness of a grassroots lobbying technique—public petitions—in Germany, applying the costly signaling theory and the economic theory of political information. I analyzed public petitions with at least 1,000 signatures, addressed by the Bundestag during its 19th term (2017–2021), and assessed the petitions’ issue sa...

The research examined consumer rights awareness among residents off low socio-economic areas in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. The budgets allocated to research on consumer protection in South Africa remain low compared to the sizes of the industries. There is a lack of technical knowledge within consumer protection authorities about the industries they ov...

In the era of exploding video content, effective video summarization methods are crucial for retaining essential information while maintaining relevance and usefulness. This paper proposes a novel single-view video summarization system, Frame Selection via Similarity Matching (FSSim), which systematically selects frames, assesses their quality usin...

Articulista do EcoDebate, é Doutor em Ciências Sociais-Unicamp Pesquisador associado do CPDI do IBRACHINA/IBRAWORK Parque Tecnológico da Unicamp-Campinas-Brasil Como citar: Dias,R. (2025) O sentido político do Dia Mundial do Meio Ambiente. EcoDebate. Edição: 4255. https://www.ecodebate.com.br/2025/06/04/o-sentido-politico-do-dia-mundial-do-meio-amb...

This paper examines the evolution of the laws regulating lobbying in Lithuania and Ireland using the Centre for Public Integrity’s (CPI) “Hired Guns” quantitative index for assessing/evaluating the robustness of lobbying legislation. This index, measuring transparency, accountability and enforcement, is a scoring system developed in 2003 to assess...

Cleaning activities are essential for maintaining hygiene in indoor environments but can significantly influence indoor air quality (IAQ). We investigated emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and particulate matter (PM) during cleaning events across various indoor settings including two laboratories, an office, and a residential bathroom,...

This chapter examines the role of civil society in promoting democratic governance, with a focus on emerging democracies such as Nigeria. Civil society, through its advocacy, lobbying, and grassroots mobilisation, plays a critical role in ensuring government accountability, transparency, and the protection of human rights. The chapter highlights th...

This chapter examines the role of civil society in promoting democratic governance, with a focus on emerging democracies such as Nigeria. Civil society, through its advocacy, lobbying, and grassroots mobilization, plays a critical role in ensuring government accountability, transparency, and the protection of human rights. The chapter highlights th...

This is the fourth article to comprise the upcoming “Lobby Lenses” book, following “About Magic, Music and Lobby” (Navarro, 2024), “Drinks & Lobby: Common Grounds” (Navarro, 2025), and “Lobbying Insights from Movies & Series” (Navarro, 2025), where different views of the lobbying activity are shown in parallel to other activities which also have a...

The scientific article analyzes the role of the public in shaping state education policy in Ukraine and foreign countries, as well as the mechanisms of its participation in the management of educational processes. Special attention is paid to the regulatory and legal foundations of citizen participation in this sphere, particularly following the ad...

India’s higher-education system has expanded dramatically since Independence, yet enrolment gains remain modest and uneven. Drawing on the All India Survey of Higher Education 2021–22 and Union-State budget data, this paper interrogates the policy emphasis on Institutes of National Importance (INIs) and its repercussions for equity and national inn...

Contentious politics focuses attention on collective actions and lobbying efforts to remedy injustices, particularly in the workplace, where racial inequalities continue to influence hiring procedures, promotions, and compensation. Despite anti-discrimination legislation like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, racial and ethnic prejudice continues to li...

This research proposal explores the dynamic and transformative role of youth advocacy in advancing gender equality within the broader framework of sustainable development. Amidst persistent gender disparities and mounting global challenges—including climate change, systemic inequality, and political instability—young people are emerging as critical...

This study highlights the factors that increase the financial patriotism of society. It is substantiated that financial patriotism cannot depend only on the consciousness of citizens and businesses; it also requires a responsible position of the state and maintaining trust in government institutions. In particular, the state must pursue a balanced...

The corporate sector in India has a significant contribution towards community development. ranging from philanthropy to mandatory contribution Indian corporates have introduced a variety of programs and activities, which brought considerable change in the socioeconomic life of all the stakeholders. Freelance activists across the globe fighting for...

Global value chains (GVCs) have connected firms in complex networks within and across national borders. However, political economy models often assume away production linkages and thus fail to explain pervasive and diverse trade coalitions cutting across industries and firms. I develop a GVC‐centered framework where production linkages through a co...

A restaurant dinner or a hotel stay may lead to memorable experiences when guests encounter unexpected aspects that also match their interests. For example, an origami-making station in the waiting area of a restaurant may be both surprising and enjoyable for a customer who is passionate about paper crafts. Similarly, an exhibit of 18th century har...

EU legislation provides the implementation of most building energy performance measures at a subnational level. This obligation is causing a lot of completely new dilemmas that are challenging for local governments (LGs), requiring a radical re-evaluation of the prioritization of LGs’ traditional tasks and the ranking of new responsibilities. The a...

This paper examines how sending governments engage their diasporas for lobbying purposes and the potential outcomes of such efforts. Using Turkey's diaspora in Germany as a case study, we apply an integrated framework combining insights from the diaspora engagement policies and ethnic lobbying literatures to address the question: To what extent is...

The ongoing devastation in Gaza—over 61,000 killed, including nearly 18,000 children—is not only a military and humanitarian catastrophe but a moral indictment of the ideologies and institutions that have enabled it. Within the United States, two key forces have played outsized roles in shaping unwavering political and religious support for Israel’...

Pesticide use in agricultural production presents a significant sustainability challenge, balancing crop protection against environmental and health risks. While the EU pro‐vides a common regulatory framework, the implementation in the member states varies considerably. By means of a fsQCA we investigate the conditions for implementation success of...

This study looks at how sites like Instagram and TikTok use machine learning to show users what they want to see. Based on 28 articles, it finds that best algorithms mix user actions, like clicks, likes, or time spent looking with content info, such as text in captions or pictures in posts, to guess what users will find interesting. These systems a...

This study explores how, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the introduction of ICT technology among cacao farmer cooperative members relates to farmer-to-farmer and extension-farmer communication networks, as well as farmer knowledge and collective action. Using a mixed-methods impact evaluation approach, 563 baseline surveys, 393 en...

Recent headlines have painted artificial intelligence (AI) as an unsustainable "resource guzzler," citing sensational figures like "500 mL of water per ChatGPT prompt" or claims that AI data centers will soon rival countries in electricity use. These narratives have directly shaped public perception, driven calls for urgent regulation, and influenc...

Darulharb of Adharmic Abrahamic Secular India (DAASI – servant of colonial zombies worshippers of the iconoclastic rapacious trinity of Christ, Marx, and Allah with deep pockets full of blood, sweat, women, lands, properties, and wealth stolen from t Hindus enslaving them sexually and physically with hypocrisy of democracy) Should Be Concerned. Cri...

Animal welfare’s evolution indicates humanity’s changing attitudes toward the treatment of animals. From its roots in Jeremy Bentham’s philosophy emphasizing the avoidance of suffering as a moral imperative to its inclusion in modern legislation and policy, animal welfare’s journey is marked by legal and scientific milestones, as well as ethical di...

Why do companies sometimes lobby legislators directly and sometimes act predominantly through business associations? Although economic factors, such as size and profitability, are well-known determinants of companies’ decision to lobby, they alone cannot explain the choice in lobbying strategies. This paper provides an explanation for why companies...

Objetivo: Identificar e analisar atividade política corporativa no processo decisório referente à concessão de créditos tributários para bebidas açucaradas ocorridos após a publicação do Decreto nº 9.394/2018, que alterou a tabela do imposto sobre produtos industrializados de maneira desfavorável à indústria de bebidas açucaradas. Métodos: Foi real...

Comparative Constitutional Law Working Paper Series-Spring 2025 This paper is part of a student working paper series supervised by Dr. Barry Solaiman. The series is intended as an academic learning exercise to support the development of independent legal research and writing. This paper was produced in an educational context and represents prelimin...

We critically examine the politicization of international student mobility (ISM) during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on Israel, China, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Applying Vicki Squire's framework of the politics of control and migration, we reveal how the pandemic intensified existing political tensions and inequalities, challenging dep...

This article examines the effects of changes in 2018–19 to the Income Tax Act and Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) regulations that were ostensibly intended to facilitate public policy engagement by Canadian charities. The article examines a case study of charities in the international development sector through interviews with charity leaders and quant...

School funding is widely acknowledged in policy and research as both a means of supporting student learning and a key strategy for promoting educational equity. This article analyses how key stakeholders responded to the events surrounding the 2017 school funding reforms put forward by the Coalition federal government and passed by the Australian p...

The food industry is a very influential actor in public health policies in Colombia. In particular, industry incentives, such as financial donations and other gifts to political parties, can help develop future alliances and initiate an exchange of favors. The objective of this study was to analyze the incentives granted by the food industry to pol...

We consider a monopolist selling a product to differentially informed consumers: some consumers are uncertain about their tastes, whereas other consumers are perfectly informed. The monopolist sets a uniform price and can make personalized product recommendations. We characterize conditions under which the monopolist biases its recommendations—that...

TRIBUNE " Tabac, alcool et santé publique : quand les intérêts commerciaux bloquent la prévention Selon un rapport de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé, environ un quart des décès annuels en Europe par an s'explique par la consommation de produits vendus par 4 secteurs industriels : tabac, alcool, alimentation ultratransformée et énergies fossile...

Lobby hotel merupakan area pertama yang dilihat oleh para tamu dan berfungsi sebagai wajah hotel yang memberikan kesan awal yang sangat penting bagi pengunjung. Penelitian ini mengkaji penerapan warna dalam desain interior lobby pada dua hotel yaitu DoubleTree Jakarta dan Bintaro, yang bertujuan untuk menciptakan suasana yang sesuai dengan karakter...

Is trade lobbying effective and does its effectiveness vary across firms? Using requests for relief from China trade war tariffs, we demonstrate that lobbying for specific trade policies contributed to securing those exact policies, an elusive target in the long-running trade lobbying literature. We further argue that lobbying should be most impact...

Transformasi digital telah menjadi aspek penting dalam fasilitas kesehatan modern, dengan pemerintah secara aktif mendorong para pemangku kepentingan untuk mempercepat digitalisasi di sektor kesehatan. Perkembangan ini membuka peluang baru bagi desain interior rumah sakit untuk mengintegrasikan teknologi secara harmonis ke dalam elemen ruang, sehin...

Fundraising is a poor cousin in the family of philanthropic studies, where the focus of serious scholars turns to more esoteric matters. Ignored is the CENTRAL TASK of nonprofit leadership: writing the voice of philanthropy—writing discourse that becomes the voice of the needy, thus motivating people to care and to give. Writing the voice of phil...

The rush to legalize or at least decriminalize the use of marijuana was promoted by lobby groups, certain business sectors and some governments seeking new revenue streams while ignoring the long-term societal and health impacts. This brief article raises the issue of cannabis use as a recreational drug disguised as medicine and what long-term impa...

This paper examines the rise of clinical decision support algorithms used to assess risk in pain management and the opioid industry’s influence on their development and implementation. To understand this influence, we conducted a qualitative study of documents related to the development of a tool that relied on artificial intelligence (AI) to sugge...

For decades, transnational corporations/companies have been using various strategies (e.g. lobbying for the reduction of taxation) to position their products and influence dietary habits, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), ‘health taxes’ are one of the most effective public health mea...

Background Injuries represent a major threat to child health globally. In the US, firearm injuries are the leading cause of death among children and adolescents. Despite limited evidence of their effectiveness industry-funded bodies promote the delivery of their youth education programs while lobbying against firearm control policies. This article...

To what extent are the lobbying positions of large corporations consistent with the increasingly prominent corporate social responsibility (CSR) commitments that these organizations champion? Are corporations with more stringent internal sustainability policies more likely to support state regulation to address related social and environmental chal...

An unexpected note of poignancy greets visitors to the museum of the world's largest car company. In the cavernous lobby, a lone trumpet plays the mournful opening bars to Over the Rainbow, a plea for escape from the dreary, difficult realities of the present. The song is performed by Partner Robot, Toyota's showcase humanoid robot, on a giant scre...

[Since the publication of Tanaka Sakai's February report on the US road to war with Iran, vigorous international debate has been touched off by allegations of a critically important Israel lobby in US politics and the making of US policy in the Middle East. Tanaka offers an independent critical Japanese perspective on the forces driving US policy t...

It is one of the marvels of our time that the nuclear industry managed to resurrect itself from its ruins at the end of the last century, when it crumbled under its costs, inefficiencies, and mega-accidents. Chernobyl released hundreds of times the radioactivity of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined, contaminating more than 40% of Europe and...

The return to power of Abe Shinzō and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) unfolded as tensions on the Korean peninsula mount. As a key advocate of the abduction lobby, Abe's rapid political rise since the early 2000s is closely connected with his role in promoting a hardline policy towards North Korea. Mobilizing a new nationalism in Japan, Abe's re...

The 1990s and early 2000s have been difficult years for many farmers in many parts of the developed world. Their incomes have fallen sharply, and may well fall further as the subsidies designed to boost food production in the aftermath of the Second World War are progressively withdrawn and agriculture is increasingly exposed to unfettered market f...

Journalist Ken Silverstein recently published a piece at Harpers.org called “Cold Comfort: the Japan Lobby Blocks Resolution on WWII Sex Slaves” (October 5, 2006), which Bryan Bender of the Boston Globe elaborated on in an article headlined “U.S. Congress backs off rebuke of wartime Japan” (October 15, 2006). What we know from both pieces is that,...

Interest groups (IGs) can potentially influence policy making process or policy outcomes in their favor by using different lobbying tactics. In this paper, we study how and under what circumstances IGs exert influence on policy outcomes when they can use Micro-targeting (MT) as a lobbying strategy, i.e. the IGs can send group specific messages to a...

[The long-simmering global whaling debate is entering a new phase as Japan is poised on eliminating international strictures on whaling and Green Peace intensifies its Southern Oceans campaign to halt Japanese and other whaling. Japan Focus presents two articles on whaling, one focusing on the view from Japan, the other on the changing internationa...

The initial discussions centred on the need for a more action-oriented organization with a broader mandate that extended beyond academic research. It was widely agreed that a separate, independent entity could be more nimble and flexible in its responses to emerging challenges, engaging in public campaigns, lobbying efforts, and direct advocacy. Th...

Transnational Corporations (TNCs) have become powerful global actors, often wielding more economic influence than entire nations. This article explores how TNCs, under the guise of investment and development, increasingly challenge the sovereignty of states in the Global South. Through practices such as resource extraction, regulatory capture, and...

This study examines a social-justice-focused environmental education program serving marginalized students through fostering engagement with local communities and natural environments. It presents a focused ethnographic case study of teachers of color who designed and implemented an ethnic studies and environmental education curriculum intended to...

Desain melengkung telah menjadi inovasi yang diterapkan dalam proyek desain interior Kantor Japfa Group, Jakarta Barat, untuk menciptakan ruang yang lebih dinamis dan menarik. Latar belakang penerapan elemen melengkung ini dilatarbelakangi kebutuhan untuk menciptakan ruang kerja yang mampu meningkatkan kenyamanan, estetika, dan fungsionalitas bagi...

Clean, sustainable and low-carbon energy transition is a strategic agenda that demands broad collaboration among stakeholders. This research explores in depth the role of external public relations (PR) in the "PLN Go Green" Program as one of PT PLN's (Persero) corporate initiatives to support national decarbonization targets. Using a descriptive qu...

This research shows that applying a public–private interests lens is instructive for explaining positions of non-state actor engagements in international negotiations of environmental agreements. The research specifically focuses on ad-hoc lobbying coalitions as a feature in non-state actor engagements in negotiations. These ad-hoc coalitions have...

Abstract: This working paper examines Kazakhstan’s electoral and lobbying regulations, highlighting their constitutional foundations, implementation challenges, and gaps in fostering democratic accountability. Recent electoral reforms post-2022 protests introduced a mixed system to enhance representation, yet the governmental model of the Central...

US politics is living a tense period of transformation. Approaching the presidential elections of 2024, many commentators question the fate of the US representative democracy and its political system. Political scientists have largely contributed to the critical analysis of the US case. A special mention goes to Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson. The t...

Promoting effective occupational safety and health (OSH) practices is key to safer and healthier workplaces. Improving arrangements and practices for managing OSH across a whole range of industry sectors and firm sizes-large, medium and small-is stimulated, supported and sustained by a range of institutional actors and internal and external process...

Recent trade wars have confronted the trade policy literature with a major puzzle. How can we explain protectionist tendencies in the context of global economic integration? In this article, I aim to provide an answer to the question why, and under which conditions, internationally oriented companies are in favor of trade restrictions. More special...

Este estudio se centra en la cobertura mediática de la Ley 7/2023 y la reforma del Código Penal en materia de maltrato y abandono de animales. El objetivo principal es la identificación de actores y discursos que han quedado reflejados en la agenda mediática, en concreto sobre los animales usados con fines de entretenimiento. Se han examinado texto...

Scholarship on the Federal Reserve argues that banks do not lobby on interest rates, holding that banks would not waste scarce resources advocating for a position that central banks already know they embrace. I challenge this assumption theoretically by arguing that banks have different interests and influence on monetary policy, with the largest b...

Special interest groups (SIGs) in the U.S. participate in a range of political activities, such as lobbying and making campaign donations, to influence policy decisions in the legislative and executive branches. The competing interests of these SIGs have profound implications for global issues such as international trade policies, immigration, clim...

This review article dives into the essential role that pressure groups play in advancing social justice and equality in democratic societies, particularly within the context of India and relevant global movements. These pressure groups have been divided into interest-based, cause-driven, insider, and outsider categories, examining their diverse str...

This chapter analyzes the reaction and strategies of the automobile industry and its global federation, the Bureau Permanent International des Constructeurs d’Automobiles (BPICA), to the convening of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Motor Vehicle Seminar, held in October 1976 in Paris. BPICA had since the late 1950s organized its mem...

Governing requires policymakers to make decisions in a context of perpetual, yet varying, uncertainty. This chapter looks at the role lobbyists and interest groups play in governing with respect to two types of uncertainty-government uncertainty and issue uncertainty-and considers how these differing types of uncertainty affect interest group lobby...

This article examines the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Türkiye’s public diplomacy. Firstly, it discusses how NGOs are positioned as a public diplomacy actor in the public diplomacy literature. The second part emphasizes that the changes and transformations in the communication and media order also affect international activities...

Environmental pollution remains a persistent global challenge despite extensive efforts to mitigate its effects. This ongoing issue is driven by multiple factors, including industrialization, technological limitations, political barriers, and a lack of public awareness. Industrial activities continue to be the primary source of pollution, significa...

The cost of drugs contributes significantly to healthcare expenditure, and any reduction in the cost of medication would provide relief to all. Conventionally, the use of generic drugs is the method of reducing medication cost, however efforts to make prescription by generic name compulsory have failed. India also has a third type of products in ad...

The idea for this bizarre publication came about solely to “make simple” the European Union (EU), a supranational “body”, an organisation of “European” states, peoples and institutions, which is very complex and difficult to understand. More specifically, the ambitious goal we have set ourselves is to “capture” the attention of the younger generati...

The study explores the role of the knowledge economy in facilitating international trade and networking. It looks at the role of law makers, business associations and lobby groups within the greater export promotion policy framework as a vital tool to drive GDP growth and reduce unemployment amid rapidly falling exports. Botswana as a country and a...

Collaboration in educational institutions has become a competent vehicle for accomplishing set objectives. Collaborations are therefore the styles educators use when they work with other people to achieve shared goals. Against this background, this study sought to explore internal stakeholders’ collaborations in the school effectiveness of two teac...

How do bribes and lobbying distort judgment? In our experiment, referees are tasked with judging a worker’s performance, and awarding a bonus to workers who score above a certain threshold. We find that bribes and lobbying are both distortionary, but in different ways. Whereas lobbying increases the number of workers receiving a bonus, bribes weake...

Gender equality in political representation is a cornerstone of contemporary democracies. Although much scholarly attention has been devoted to understanding gender inequality in government, less is known about gender representation within interest groups. We posit that gender representation in interest groups is influenced by the gender diversity...

Introduction: Over 19,000 West Toronto residents live in Toronto Community Housing, Canada’s largest social housing provider and the second largest in North America. This population includes a mix of older adults living with frailty and chronic diseases, tenants experiencing mental health and substance use issues, and new tenants via the City of To...

Introduction: Governments create National Performance Framworks (NPF) to highlight the 'golden threads' they want all stakeholders to most focus on. Two years ago we presented at ICIC 2022 on the design and development of a new National Outcome for Care in Scotlands NPF, and the 11 existing outcomes in that which did not include Care explicitly, wh...