Does Perceived Governance Quality Improve Toward the North and South Poles for Eco-Cultural Reasons?

2021 ◽  
pp. 002202212110510
Author(s):  
Evert Van de Vliert ◽  
Lucian Gideon Conway
Keyword(s):  
Human Society ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
The North ◽  
Spatially Distributed ◽  
Good Government ◽  
Main Driver ◽  
Governance Quality ◽  
A Chain ◽  
North And South

Good government is vital to human society. But what proximal and distal factors influence this collective goodness perception? Here, we investigate how and why multi-component evaluations by many institutional observers of public governance vary along the north-south rather than east-west axis of the Earth. Across 190 countries, we show that governance quality improves from the equator toward the North and South Poles in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. By contrast, governance quality hardly varies from east to west. National wealth, surfacing as the main driver of good government, is spatially distributed along latitude and longitude in the same striking way. In broader detail, governance quality is psychologically accounted for by cultural, economic, and pathogenic explanations, all nested within a climate-based explanation. Taken in total, the results suggest a chain of increasingly distal explanations of the equator-to-pole improvements in perceived governance quality.

scholarly journals ON THE QUESTION OF THE UNITY OF CRITERIA OF NEOLITHIC EPOCH FOR THE CULTURES OF NORTH AND SOUTH

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-177
Author(s):  
Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Stawitsky
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Secondary Importance ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
The North ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
North And South ◽  
Neolithic Cultures

The first archaeological periodization by H. Thompson was founded on the turn of the materials from which tools were made. J. Lubbock has introduced a new criterion in the periodization of the Stone Age - improving of methods of processing tools that allowed him to identify the Neolithic. By the opinion of Ethnographer L. Morgan, the way of getting livelihood was laid in the base of the periodization. As markers separating one stage of development from another, he have been used an archaeological features of secondary importance. For Neolithic pottery was such a sign. G. Child used the non-arheological periodization of G. Morgan. G. Childe named the producing economy the main criteria of Neolithic. Spreading of the views of G. Child in Western Europe has led to the fact that most of the Neolithic cultures of the forest zone are no longer considered as such. In the Soviet Union, and then Russia has evolved a concept according to which the population of forest crops by developing appropriating economy has reached the same level of social development that the Neolithic cultures with generating economies. Among foreign scholars this view most consistently advocated by M. Zvelebil. However, this argument is based on the concept of subjective interpretation of archaeological artifacts. Common features in the level of development of the cultures of North and South, are generally fixed on the basis of similarity of archaeological (technological) and socio-cultural characteristics, but this similarity is due to various reasons, which lead to different consequences. The transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in the forest zone was carried out not in the revolutionary but in the evolutionary form. If the "revolution" has taken place, then it occurred earlier in the Late Mesolithic, when transition passed from specialized hunting migratory animals to complex hunting- fishing economy. This "Mesolithic revolution" produced demographic growth of Neolithic population, the increase of which was primarily due to favorable natural conditions of Atlantic optimum rather than to improvement of tools and methods of obtaining food. Whereas in the cultures of the South it was the exact opposite. Comparison of socio- economic development of the Neolithic population of the North and South has deep meaning only in terms of the concept of a single line of evolutionary development of human society, according to which the population of different regions held the same stage of development. If we consider that the evolution of the character wore a multi-line, then this comparison is not valid. In our opinion, the whole complex of archaeological materials suggests ways of multiline development of the Neolithic population of different natural areas, the similarity between them is very general in nature.

scholarly journals X.—On the Sculptured Tympanum of a former Doorway in the Church of South Ferriby, Lincolnshire

Archaeologia ◽  
1882 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-178
Author(s):  
Charles Edward Keyser
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Parish Church ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
General Plan ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The Hill ◽  
The Village ◽  
North And South ◽  
The Church

The village of South Ferriby is situate on the south bank of the Humber, and is the northernmost of a chain of small villages nearly all having names terminating in “by,” placed under or on the western escarpment of the Lincolnshire Wolds, where they approach the Humber, and overlook the valley through which flows the river Ancholme. The small parish church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is chiefly deserving of notice on account of its peculiar situation and plan, and for the curious early Romanesque doorhead or tympanum shown by the accompanying illustration (Fig. 1). The church is built on a level platform cut out about half way up the hill. It consists of a nave standing north, and south, with a small chancel projecting eastward and considerably above the level of the nave, a low tower occupying the north-east angle between the nave and chancel, and a west porch opposite the chancel. Judging from some window tracery still remaining, the church seems to be of fourteenth century date, but it has been subjected to numerous alterations culminating in a restoration, in which the chancel has been converted into a vestry and the altar placed at the north end of the nave, which has been lengthened and made precisely like a barn in its general plan and arrangement. It is said that at one time there was a kind of western aisle formed by oak posts and struts supporting a beam, but no traces of this remain in the present renovated nave.

Preliminary results of the study on the reasons of the Hai Hau erosion phenomenon

2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-426
Author(s):  
Pham Van Ninh ◽  
Phan Ngoc Vinh ◽  
Nguyen Manh Hung ◽  
Dinh Van Manh
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modeling ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Middle Part ◽  
Red River ◽  
Erosion Process ◽  
Red River Delta ◽  
The North ◽  
Severe Erosion ◽  
North And South ◽  
Very High

Overall the evolution process of the Red River Delta based on the maps and historical data resulted in a fact that before the 20th century all the Nam Dinh coastline was attributed to accumulation. Then started the erosion process at Xuan Thuydistrict and from the period of 1935 - 1965 the most severe erosion was contributed in the stretch from Ha Lan to Hai Trieu, 1965 - 1990 in Hai Chinh - Hai Hoa, 1990 - 2005 in the middle part of Hai Chinh - Hai Thinh (Hai Hau district). The adjoining stretches were suffered from not severe erosion. At the same time, the Ba Lat mouth is advanced to the sea and to the North and South direction by the time with a very high rate.The first task of the mathematical modeling of coastal line evolution of Hai Hau is to evaluate this important historical marked periods e. g. to model the coastal line at the periods before 1900, 1935 - 1965; 1965 - 1990; 1990 - 2005. The tasks is very complicated and time and working labors consuming.In the paper, the primarily results of the above mentioned simulations (as waves, currents, sediments transports and bottom - coastal lines evolution) has been shown. Based on the obtained results, there is a strong correlation between the protrusion magnitude and the southward moving of the erosion areas.

Studies of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) in the Spirit Collection of the Natural History Museum, London 2: New species and records from P. Hammond's visit to New Zealand in 1983–84

2018 ◽  
Vol 154 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-196
Author(s):  
Michael Darby
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The North ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
North And South

Some 2,000 Ptiliidae collected in the North and South Islands of New Zealand in 1983/1984 by Peter Hammond of the Natural History Museum, London, are determined to 34 species, four of which are new to the country. As there are very few previous records, most from the Auckland district of North Island, the Hammond collection provides much new distributional data. The three new species: Nellosana insperatus sp. n., Notoptenidium flavum sp. n., and Notoptenidium johnsoni sp. n., are described and figured; the genus Ptiliodes is moved from Acrotrichinae to Ptiliinae, and Ptenidium formicetorum Kraatz recorded as a new introduction. Information is provided to aid separation of the new species from those previously recorded.

Observed seasonal regimes of North-South Atlantic Ocean interbasin exchange

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamed D. Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Meridional Overturning Circulation ◽  
Volume Flux ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Basin Scale ◽  
Interbasin Exchange ◽  
North And South

North and South Atlantic lateral volume exchange is a key component of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) embedded in Earth’s climate. Northward AMOC heat transport within this exchange mitigates the large heat loss to the atmosphere in the northern North Atlantic. Because of inadequate climate data, observational basin-scale studies of net interbasin exchange between the North and South Atlantic have been limited. Here ten independent climate datasets, five satellite-derived and five analyses, are synthesized to show that North and South Atlantic climatological net lateral volume exchange is partitioned into two seasonal regimes. From late-May to late-November, net lateral volume flux is from the North to the South Atlantic; whereas from late-November to late-May, net lateral volume flux is from the South to the North Atlantic. This climatological characterization offers a framework for assessing seasonal variations in these basins and provides a constraint for climate models that simulate AMOC dynamics.

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