The Institutionalization of Religious Organizations in Muslim-Majority Countries: Statistical Evidence

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-140
Author(s):  
Vineeta Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Variation ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Statistical Evidence ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Large N ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

This chapter begins the empirical analysis in this book. It first presents the logic and the details of the research design adopted to test the two hypotheses and their associated corollaries. The research design combines large-N analysis of a comprehensive set of 49 Muslim-majority countries from 1970 to 2016 with in-depth case studies of two insightful cases—Turkey and Pakistan. The cases are selected to leverage the advantages of temporal variation in all the theoretically important factors within each country using a within-subjects design. The rest of the chapter introduces a new measure of religious organizations’ socioeconomic institutionalization and the sample used in the analysis. It then presents the results from systematic tests of Hypothesis 1 and its corollaries, explaining when religious organizations experience an increase in their institutionalization. The tests provide strong and robust support for the first part of the argument.

The Contribution of University Business Incubators to New Knowledge-Based Ventures

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa Grimaldi ◽  
Alessandro Grandi
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Technological Knowledge ◽  
Business Incubators ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

This paper examines the role of university business incubators (UBIs) in supporting the creation of new knowledge-based ventures. UBIs are described as effective mechanisms for overcoming weaknesses of the more traditional public incubating institutions. They offer firms a range of university-related benefits, such as access to laboratories and equipment, to scientific and technological knowledge and to networks of key contacts, and the reputation that accrues from affiliation with a university. The empirical analysis is based on the Turin Polytechnic Incubator (TPI) and on case studies of six academic spin-offs hosted at TPI. While TPI does not effectively resolve such problems as inadequate access to funding capital and the lack of management and financial skills in its tenant companies, the networking capacity of incubating programmes is seen as a key characteristic that may help new knowledge-based ventures to overcome such difficulties.

scholarly journals Potential Impacts of Foodborne Illness Incidences on Market Movements and Prices of Fresh Produce in the U.S.

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 731-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco A. Palma ◽  
Luis A. Ribera ◽  
David Bessler ◽  
Mechel Paggi ◽  
Ronald D. Knutson
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Vector Autoregression ◽  
Fresh Produce ◽  
Foodborne Illness ◽  
Var Model ◽  
June July ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
The U.S

This study investigates the potential impacts of food safety outbreaks on domestic shipments, imports, and prices of the produce industry. Three case studies were analyzed to assess these potential impacts: the cantaloupe outbreak of March–April 2008, the spinach outbreak of September 2006, and the tomato outbreak of June–July 2008. Data-determined historical decompositions were conducted to provide a weekly picture of domestic shipment, import, and price fluctuation transmissions. The empirical analysis based on a vector autoregression (VAR) model showed differences in the results depending on the source of the outbreak (domestic vs. imported).

Supplying Peace

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-80
Author(s):  
Molly M. Melin
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
National Data ◽  
Operating Environment ◽  
Political Capacity ◽  
Large N ◽  
Environmental Variations ◽  
And Shifts

This chapter examines the conditions that encourage corporations to engage in proactive peacebuilding. It explains variation in firm-led peacebuilding as a product of the operating environment. These environmental variations offer insights into how corporations respond to local dynamics and shifts in political capacity, as well as threats to the ability to conduct business. The chapter also considers the alternative explanation that firms use peacebuilding to overcome past bad behavior. It tests these arguments on the original cross-national data of peacebuilding efforts. The findings bring large-N empirical analysis to a topic dominated by case studies and emphasize the need for peace science scholars to examine the role of the private sector in many of the topics we study.

scholarly journals How to Grasp the Key Democratic Transformations

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Leonardo Morlino
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Economic Equality ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Personal Dignity ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

This chapter provides the theoretical framework for the following comparative analysis. For the two democratic values, equality and freedom, the author proposes the justification, definition, specific subdimensions, and the main empirical questions to be addressed in the subsequent chapters. This also allows giving the necessary references to the literature on the two topics and has helped to provide the theoretical framework and develop the empirical analysis. To translate the two notions into empirically detectable concepts, equality and freedom were broken out into more dimensions. For equality, they are economic equality, social equality, ethnic equality. For freedom, they are personal dignity, civil rights, and political rights. The research design and the background approach are also briefly sketched.

The Empirical Study of Legitimate Authority Normative Guidance for Positive Analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 328-361
Author(s):  
Sanford C. Gordon ◽  
Gregory A. Huber
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Legitimate Authority ◽  
Normative Study ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

We employ key concepts in the normative study of legitimate authority to place the empirical analysis of legitimacy on firmer analytical foundations. Our critical review of empirical research on support for courts, regimes generally, and international organizations highlights the slippage between normative and positive approaches, while simultaneously drawing attention to problems of measurement and critical inferential problems rooted in limitations of research design. We then describe a simple theoretical model that formalizes these considerations. The model reveals conditions under which it is possible to isolate the effect of an authority’s legitimacy on citizen behavior net of extrinsic compliance motivations as well as environments in which examination of the antecedents of legitimate authority is most likely to be fruitful.

Patterns of Intra-Party Democracy across the World

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niklas Bolin ◽  
Nicholas Aylott ◽  
Benjamin von dem Berge ◽  
Thomas Poguntke
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Large N ◽  
The World ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Despite the widespread recognition of the relevance of intra-party democracy (IPD), there has been a lamentable scarcity of empirical data suitable for large-N cross-sectional comparative analysis. This has changed with the Political Party Database Project (PPDB) project. Against this background this chapter sheds some light on questions about whether and how IPD varies systematically by country and party level criteria. The empirical analysis shows that country-level factors are generally more important than party-level factors. Most importantly, the existence of a party law and levels of trust and affluence are associated with higher levels of IPD. However, the authors also find that smaller parties, in terms of membership size, are associated with higher levels of IPD. While the results must be interpreted with some caution, the authors believe they constitute a first step towards reframing the scholarly debate on IPD from what is normatively desirable to a discussion about causes and consequences of variations in IPD.

scholarly journals What Benford Can Tell Us About Cover Pools – An Empirical Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Kienle
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Statistical Evidence ◽  
Large Data Sets ◽  
Benford’S Law ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Benford's Law ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Leading digits often follow a distribution described by Newcomb (1881) and Benford (1938). We apply this phenomenon known as Benford’s Law on cover assets provided by issuers of German covered bonds. The main finding of the empirical analysis is that leading digits of these assets seem to follow the Benford distribution. Standard statistical evidence, however, might be misleading due to effects of large data sets. Consequently, the present paper also provides an example of how to deal with large data sets when a Benford distribution is assumed. 

The Word Class Adjective in English Business Magazines Online

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-115
Author(s):  
Borislav Marušić ◽  
Sanda Katavić-Čaušić
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Word Class ◽  
Business English ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
English Syntax ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract The aim of this paper is to research the word class adjective in one sequence of the ESP: Business English, more precisely English business magazines online. It is an empirical study on the corpus taken from a variety of business magazines online. The empirical analysis allows a comprehensive insight into the word class adjective in this variety of Business English and makes its contribution to English syntax, semantics and word formation. The syntactic part analyses the adjective position in the sentence. The semantic part of the study identifies the most common adjectives that appear in English business magazines online. Most of the analysis is devoted to the word formation of the adjectives found in the corpus. The corpus is analysed in such a way that it enables its division into compounds, derivatives and conversions. The results obtained in this way will give a comprehensive picture of the word class adjective in this type of Business English and can act as a starting point for further research of the word class adjective.

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