Terrorism and Democracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-379
Author(s):  
Andrey Korotayev ◽  
Ilya Vaskin ◽  
Daniil Romanov
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
The Other ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Democratic Regime ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Powerful Factor ◽  
Terrorist Activity ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article proposes a new explanation of the positive correlation between democracy and terrorism detected in many previous studies. It is shown that this might be accounted for by the fact that factional democracies are subjected to more terrorist attacks than the other political regimes. A positive relationship between the democratic regime and the level of terrorist activity can be obtained due to the inclusion of factional democracies in the sample of democratic states. If factional democracies are excluded from the sample, the relationship between the level of terrorist activity and the democratic regime is negative. The analysis allows to maintain that factional democracy is a rather powerful factor of a high level of terrorist activity, while non-factional democracy turns out to be rather a statistically significant predictor of a relatively low intensity of terrorist attacks.

scholarly journals Democracy and Terrorism: A Re-analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-48
Author(s):  
Andrey Korotayev ◽  
Il'ya Vas'kin ◽  
Daniil Romanov
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Democratic Regime ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Terrorist Activity ◽  
The Relationship

The authors analyze the relationship between the type of political regime and the level of terrorist activity, with a particular emphasis on the so-called factional democracies. The key difference of factional democracies from other political regimes is the presence of polarization between opposing factions. It has been reported that political polarization transforms the conventional institutionalized political process into unconventional politics. The authors draw attention to the fact that in the existing scientific debate, there is no clear conclusion about the nature of the relationship between the type of political regime and the level of terrorist activity in the country. A literature review suggests that there is a curvilinear, U-shaped relationship between the level of terrorist activity and the type of political regime, which is consistent with the findings of previous works describing the relationship between socio-political destabilization and the type of political regime. Preliminary testing conducted by the authors indicates that factional democracies are subject to significantly more terrorist attacks than any other political regimes. While analyzing data on the level of terrorist activity, the authors address the need to split the sample into subsamples, due to the nonlinear nature of the relationship between the level of terrorist activity and GDP per capita, as well as the mean of years of schooling. The presence of a positive relationship between factional democracies and the level of terrorist activity is also verified by applying a negative binomial regression. The authors offer their own answer to the question of why so many previous studies have detected a positive correlation between democracy and terrorism. Attention is drawn to the fact that the positive relationship between democratic regime and the level of terrorist activity can be obtained due to the inclusion of factional democracies into the overall sample of democratic states. If factional democracies are excluded from the sample, the relationship between the level of terrorist activity and the democratic regime turns out to be clearly negative. The findings about the relationship between regime type and terrorist activity are replicated at the subsamples level. The general conclusion is that a factional democracy turns out to be a very strong positive predictor of high levels of terrorist activity, whereas a non-factional democracy turns out to be a statistically-significant predictor of the relatively lower levels of the intensity of terrorist attacks.

scholarly journals Supervisor Knowledge Sharing and Employee Knowledge Sharing: The Moderating Roles of Learning Goal Orientation and Affective Organizational Commitment

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4176
Author(s):  
Seckyoung Loretta Kim
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Affective Organizational Commitment ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

Recognizing the importance of knowledge sharing, this study adopted social learning and social exchange perspectives to understand when employees may engage in knowledge sharing. Using data collected from 192 employees in various South Korean organizations, the findings demonstrate that there is a positive relationship between supervisor knowledge sharing and employee knowledge sharing. As employees perceive a high level of supervisor knowledge sharing, they are likely to engage in knowledge sharing based on social learning and social exchange theories. Furthermore, the study explores the moderating effects of learning goal orientation and affective organizational commitment in the relationship between supervisor knowledge sharing and employee knowledge sharing. The result supports the hypothesis that the relationship between supervisor knowledge sharing and employee knowledge sharing is strengthened when there is a high level of affective organizational commitment. Employees who obtain valuable knowledge from their supervisors are likely to engage in knowledge sharing when they are emotionally attached to their organization. However, in contrast to the hypothesis, the positive relationship between supervisor knowledge sharing and employee knowledge sharing was stronger at the lower levels of learning goal orientation (LGO) than at the higher levels of LGO.

Career Plateau and Turnover Intention in Chinese Employees: Career Anchor as Moderator

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 757-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yueran Wen ◽  
Liu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Career Anchor ◽  
Career Plateau ◽  
Strong Positive Relationship ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

Based on a survey of 147 Chinese employees, we examined the relationship between perceived career plateau and turnover intention, and the moderating role of career anchor in challenge in this process. We hypothesized that perceived career plateau would be positively related to turnover intention, and that this relationship would be stronger in employees with a higher level of career anchor in challenge than in those with a lower level. The results showed that perceived career plateau had a strong positive relationship with turnover intention, especially in employees with a high level of career anchor in challenge. These findings have implications for research in career development and turnover intention, as well as in management practices.

scholarly journals Iris Hanika's Treffen Sich Zwei: Reception, Analysis and Interpretation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kerry Alistair Nitz
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Narrative Functions ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Iris Hanika’s commercially and critically successful novel Treffen sich zwei makes use of several techniques in the characterisation of its protagonists. Many of its reviews focus on the author’s deliberate placement of links to a wider literary context. Their interest extends from questions of genre-mixing through to the identification of direct quotes from other authors’ works. The critical preoccupation with intertexts demonstrates their importance for the readers’ response to the novel. More specifically, certain reviews highlight the important role intertexts play in the characterisation of the protagonists. This study catalogues the intertexts, metaphors and parodies in Treffen sich zwei and, by means of quantitative analysis, identifies high-level patterns in the use of these techniques. In particular, patterns are identified between, on the one hand, the different narrative functions of the intertexts and, on the other hand, the different ways in which they are interwoven in the text. The data also shows that distinct patterns are associated with each of the two protagonists and that certain patterns change in the course of the novel in parallel with the changes in the relationship between them. This quantitative evidence is supported by a more detailed, qualitative approach, which examines how specific intertexts or metaphors are used for the purposes of characterisation. In addition, variations in voice are used to distinguish the two main protagonists in a manner consistent with the intertexts and metaphors. It is thanks to the combination of these techniques that the theme of meeting encapsulated in the title, Treffen sich zwei, is woven into the textual fabric of the novel.</p>

scholarly journals Frankly, We Do Give a Damn

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 816-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilad Feldman ◽  
Huiwen Lian ◽  
Michal Kosinski ◽  
David Stillwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Aggregate Level ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Common Causes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

There are two conflicting perspectives regarding the relationship between profanity and dishonesty. These two forms of norm-violating behavior share common causes and are often considered to be positively related. On the other hand, however, profanity is often used to express one’s genuine feelings and could therefore be negatively related to dishonesty. In three studies, we explored the relationship between profanity and honesty. We examined profanity and honesty first with profanity behavior and lying on a scale in the lab (Study 1; N = 276), then with a linguistic analysis of real-life social interactions on Facebook (Study 2; N = 73,789), and finally with profanity and integrity indexes for the aggregate level of U.S. states (Study 3; N = 50 states). We found a consistent positive relationship between profanity and honesty; profanity was associated with less lying and deception at the individual level and with higher integrity at the society level.

scholarly journals Terrorism and Migration: An Overview

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Marc Helbling ◽  
Daniel Meierrieks
Keyword(s):  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Terrorist Activity ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Electoral Preferences

Abstract This article provides an overview of the literature on the relationship between terrorism and migration. It discusses whether and how (1) migration may be a cause of terrorism, (2) terrorism may influence natives' attitudes towards immigration and their electoral preferences and (3) terrorism may lead to more restrictive migration policies and how these in turn may serve as effective counter-terrorism tools. A review of the empirical literature on the migration–terrorism nexus indicates that (1) there is little evidence that more migration unconditionally leads to more terrorist activity, especially in Western countries, (2) terrorism has electoral and political (but sometimes short-lived) ramifications, for example, as terrorism promotes anti-immigrant resentment and (3) the effectiveness of stricter migration policies in deterring terrorism is rather limited, while terrorist attacks lead to more restrictive migration policies.

scholarly journals Relationship between Cyclic and Non-Cyclic Force-Velocity Characteristics in BMX Cyclists

Sports ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Micah Gross ◽  
Thomy Gross
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
The Other ◽  
Muscular Force ◽  
Squat Jump ◽  
Force Velocity ◽  
High Level ◽  
Training Exercises ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Squat Jumps ◽  
Flat Ground

Especially for bicycle motocross (BMX) cyclists, transfer of muscular force-velocity (Fv) characteristics between common strength training exercises and cycling is important. This study investigated the relationship between Fv characteristics in a common training exercise (squat jumps) and a sport-specific task (cycling) in high-level BMX racers by exploring the degree to which Fv and torque–cadence (Tc) characteristics correspond. Twelve BMX racers performed an Fv (multiple loaded squat jump) and two Tc tests (ramp starts and flat-ground sprints). Results revealed very large correlations between F 0 and T o r 0 s t a r t (r = 0.77) and between P m a x j u m p and P m a x s t a r t (r = 0.85). On the other hand, the relationships between v 0 and C a d 0 s t a r t (r = –0.25) and between S F v and S T c s t a r t (r = –0.14) were small and negative. Similar results were observed for sprints. Based on dichotomous classifications (greater or less than group median), several discrepancies occurred, particularly for the profile slopes and high-speed variables. Thus, we recommend performing both jump-based and cycling-specific F v testing. Of additional note, T c characteristics on flat ground were similar to, but slightly different from those on the start ramp. Therefore, where possible, Tc tests should be carried out on a ramp.

Volunteering involvementand agency, communion and ethics

2020 ◽  
Vol 586 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
Adam Grabowski
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Sense Of Agency ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Ethical Codes ◽  
Agency And Communion ◽  
Selfless Action ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this paper was to check whether there exists a relationship between volunteering involvement and the level of communion, agency and degree of support for ethical codes. The questions concerned whether persons involved in volunteering (compared to those not involved) are characterized, on the one hand, by a higher intensity of agency and communion, on the other, a higher level of declared support for ethical codes (ethics of autonomy, universal good, dignity and collectivism). In order to find the answer, a study was carried out in which participated 37 people involved in hospice volunteering (including 19 women) and 34 non-volunteers (including 18 women).The results of the study show the existence of an assumed relationship in the case of agency and communion. As for ethical codes, the results did not provide evidence of the relationship between the level of their support and volunteering. The results of the presented study lead to the conclusion that selfless action for the benefit of the other people is associated with a high level of agency and communion, and not only with a high ethical level. Hence the postulate for pedagogical practice to shape and develop a sense of agency and communion in children and youth.

scholarly journals ANALISA VARIABEL-VARIABEL YANG MEMPENGARUHI PROFITABILITY NET MARGIN

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dra. Rr. Sri Diniarti, S.E.
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Multiple Regression Analysis ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Coefficient Of Determination ◽  
Net Margin ◽  
The Relationship

This research is an explanatory research, because it explaining about the relationship among the hypnotized variables. This research aims to knowing about the relationship and the influence between the accounts, location to the other bank, and loans to the net margin in Bank Jatim Madiun. The results are between accounts to net margin has positive relationship, between location to another bank to net margin has negative relationship, and between loans to net margin has positive relationship. Together, the variables have strong enough relationship to net margin, it showing by coefficient of determination value is 0,956, it means that the value close to 1. So, 4,4% of Profitability Net Margin influenced by the others variables.The method of research was by using field research that including observation, interview and library research.The analyzing data method was by using Multiple Regression Analysis, Correlation Analysis, and Coefficient of Determination Analysis.

scholarly journals ANALISIS PENGARUH FRAUD TRIANGLE DALAM MENDETEKSI KECURANGAN LAPORAN KEUANGAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Mardianto Mardianto ◽  
Carissa Tiono
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Liquidity Risk ◽  
The Other ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Managerial Ownership ◽  
Fraud Triangle ◽  
Control Variables ◽  
Significant Positive Relationship ◽  
The Relationship

<p><em>This study analyzed the effect of the elements from fraud triangle, which included pressure (LEV, ROA, ACHANGE), opportunity (BDOUT), and rationalization (AUDCHANGE) in detecting fraudulent financial statement. Control variables that will be included in this study are firm’s age, firm’s size, liquidity risk, and managerial ownership. The sample that will be used in this study is non-financial companies that are listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange in the periode of 2011-2016. From the result, this study showed that change of assets (ACHANGE) and change of auditors (AUDCHANGE) has a significant positive relationship with the fraudulent financial statement, while the other variables such as leverage (LEV), return on asset (ROA) and ineffective monitoring (BDOUT) has no significant in the relationship with the fraudulent financial statement.</em></p><p>Penelitian ini meneliti pengaruh dari elemen <em>fraud triangle</em>, yaitu tekanan (LEV, ROA, ACHANGE), kesempatan (BDOUT), dan rasionalisasi (AUDCHANGE) dalam mendeteksi kecurangan laporan keuangan. Variabel kontrol yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah umur perusahaan, ukuran perusahaan, <em>liquidity risk, </em>dan kepemilikan manajerial. Sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian adalah perusahaan non-keuangan yang terdaftar pada Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI) selama periode 2011-2016. Dari hasil penelitian tersebut ditemukan variabel perubahan aset (ACHANGE) dan pergantian auditor (AUDCHANGE) memiliki pengaruh signifikan positif terhadap kecurangan laporan keuangan, sedangkan variabel lainnya yaitu <em>leverage </em>(LEV), <em>return on asset </em>(ROA) dan <em>ineffective monitoring </em>(BDOUT) memiliki pengaruh yang tidak signifikan terhadap kecurangan laporan keuangan</p>

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