Increased Number of Infections with Plasmodium Spp During a Period of Sociopolitical Instability

2018 ◽  
pp. 195-207
Author(s):  
Geraldine A O’Hara ◽  
Peter L Chiodini
Keyword(s):  
Sociopolitical Instability

Sociopolitical Instability and Economic Growth Empirical Evidence from Sri Lanka

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 1029-1035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changsheng Xu ◽  
Santhirasegaram Selvarathi ◽  
Wen Xing Li
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Sociopolitical Instability

Emerging media, political protests, and government repression in autocracies and democracies from 1995 to 2012

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (8) ◽  
pp. 685-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Britt Christensen ◽  
Jacob Groshek
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Political Opposition ◽  
Emerging Media ◽  
Political Protests ◽  
Sociopolitical Instability ◽  
Analytic Models

This study empirically analyzed the relationships between emerging media as tools in fomenting anti-government protest as well as government repression of political opposition. Using a dataset of 162 democratic and autocratic countries over 18 years, potential differences between these phenomena were examined. The results of a series of analytic models suggest that higher levels of internet and mobile phones are positively associated with more instances of both political protests and political repression, which have increased dramatically in recent years. The differences between democratic and autocratic countries' emerging media and sociopolitical instability trends are explored and discussed.

scholarly journals Revisiting China’s Social Volcano: Attitudes toward Inequality and Political Trust in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 237802312091538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya-Wen Lei
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
National Surveys ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
Attitudinal Changes ◽  
Sociopolitical Instability ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

Existing literature suggests that despite rising inequality in China, Chinese people tend to tolerate inequality, so it would be unlikely that rising inequality would cause sociopolitical instability. Few studies, however, have systematically explained Chinese people’s attitudes toward inequality, analyzed attitudinal changes over time, or examined the relationship between such attitudes and political trust. The author’s analysis of national surveys in 2004, 2009, and 2014 yields three findings. First, critical attitudes toward inequality consistently correlate with a structural understanding of inequality and skepticism of procedural or institutional justice. Second, Chinese people’s attitudes toward inequality changed little between 2004 and 2009, but between 2009 and 2014, there was increasing criticality of both inequality and its seeming disjuncture with China’s socialist principles. Third, people who are discontent with income inequality in China are more likely than others to distrust the local government, and those who draw on socialism to critique inequality are also more likely to distrust the central and local governments. Together, these findings suggest rising inequality could have political ramifications.

scholarly journals Groundwater Resources Assessment for Sustainable Development in South Sudan

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5580
Author(s):  
Manuela Lasagna ◽  
Sabrina Maria Rita Bonetto ◽  
Laura Debernardi ◽  
Domenico Antonio De Luca ◽  
Carlo Semita ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
African Region ◽  
East Central ◽  
National Regulation ◽  
Sociopolitical Instability

The economic activities of South Sudan (East-Central Africa) are predominantly agricultural. However, food insecurity due to low agricultural production, connected with weather conditions and lack of water infrastructure and knowledge, is a huge problem. This study reports the results of a qualitative and quantitative investigation of underground and surface water in the area of Gumbo (east of Juba town) that aims to assure sustainable water management, reducing diseases and mortality and guaranteeing access to irrigation and drinking water. The results of the study demonstrate the peculiarity of surface and groundwater and the critical aspects to take into account for the water use, particularly due to the exceeding of limits suggested by the WHO and national regulation. The outcomes provide a contribution to the scientific overview on lithostratigraphic, hydrochemical and hydrogeological setting of a less-studied area, characterized by sociopolitical instability and water scarcity. This represents a first step for the improvement of water knowledge and management, for sustainable economic development and for social progress in this African region.

scholarly journals Social representations of risk in Cameroon: Influence of sociopolitical and cultural context

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 642-661
Author(s):  
Jean Claude Etoundi ◽  
Nicole Kay ◽  
Sandrine Gaymard
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Sociopolitical Instability ◽  
Q Sort

The threat of sociopolitical instability is a perennial subject of political debate in Cameroon, even though the country’s stability has never really been challenged since independence. Given this omnipresent discussion on the need to preserve social cohesion, the aim of the present study was to analyze social representations of risk. Two studies were carried out among two samples (N1 = 31 and N2 = 156) of Cameroonians with higher education diplomas. Data collected by means of free association and characterization questionnaires were subjected to hierarchical, similarity and Q-sort analyses. These revealed that governance failures are regarded as factors that might undermine social cohesion. Comparative analysis of the risk representations of the country’s different ethnic groups revealed several differences. Previous research had emphasized the importance of proximity to the object in the construction of a social representation, and this was also evident in the present study, as social representations of risk for both the whole sample and the different ethnic groups were structured around specific threats or ills that undermine Cameroonian society.

The impacts of sociopolitical instability on construction dimension

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (15) ◽  
pp. 1207-1211
Author(s):  
Yong-Huang Lin ◽  
Yun-Wu Wu ◽  
Jer-Shiou Chiou
Keyword(s):  
Sociopolitical Instability

scholarly journals The Pathogenic and Patopsychology Factors of Agorafobia and Panic Disorder Performing in Ukrainian Population

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
B. Mykhaylov
Keyword(s):  
Panic Disorder ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
List Type ◽  
Sociological Factors ◽  
The People ◽  
High Dynamics ◽  
Sociopolitical Instability ◽  
And Function

The high dynamics of sociotechnocratic development of modern society, improvement of the information technologies, scientific and technical achievements along with the improvement of the quality of life bring about the elevation of psychological and emotional tension, complication of an individual’s behavioral patterns, and put forward harsh requirements to the integrative activities of all mental processes as a whole.The following system-creating factors require a basic revision of the role and function of psychotherapy in modern medicine:1.Evolution of concepts of psychosomatic and somatopsychic correlates.2.Changes in the morbidity structure.3.Resocialization of patients as an ultimate aim of the treatment process.4.“Internal” tendencies in development of psychotherapy itself.5.Psychological causes of diseases and factors of neurotization.6.Rigidity of professional doctrines and organizational ways of providing healthcare for the population.Psychological and sociological factors of neurotization of Ukrainian population have a number of peculiarities:•sociopolitical instability of society;•economical and ideological instability of society;•loss of old ideals by the people and the lack of new ones;•looking up to religious, mystic, occult and para-scientific systems;•increase in the number of technological and natural disasters.The changes in morbidity structure testify that a considerable increase in psychologically caused, somatization, psychosomatic and neurosomatic diseases with chronic course, and in borderline states is seen in Ukraine over the last years, especially agorafobia and panic disorder. These illnesses are characterized by a wide psychoemotional range of symptoms with appropriate neurological, vegetative and somatic correlates.

Barcelona’s peer-to-peer tourist accommodation market in turbulent times

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (12) ◽  
pp. 4419-4437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Benítez-Aurioles
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fixed Effects Regression ◽  
Sociopolitical Instability ◽  
Tourist Accommodation ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of sociopolitical instability on the peer-to-peer market for tourist accommodation. Design/methodology/approach The author studies for the case of Barcelona the impacts of the events occurring in the past months of 2017, which consisted of a terrorist attack and the calling for a referendum on the independence of Catalonia, by fitting a fixed effects regression model to a data panel of Airbnb listings, using New York and Paris as a control group. Findings The results show that, after controlling for individual and time effects, listing reviews and revenues fall in the last quarter of 2017 and do not recover until the second quarter of the next year, in spite of a notable effort to decrease prices in the same period. They also indicate that peer-to-peer hosts react fast to demand shocks and as those from traditional markets. Originality/value This is the first study to evaluate the impact of terrorism or political uncertainty in the peer-to-peer market and the first to evaluate their combined effect in any market.

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