Why So Late? Cultural and Institutional Factors in the Granting of Quebec and French Womens Political Rights

AbstractThis paper analyses the influence of political institutions on the development of financial cooperatives. It proposes a political economy theory where autocratic regimes deliberately oppose the development of a well-functioning financial cooperative sector to maintain their political influence, and prevent the formation of strong pressure groups that can threaten the current politicalstatus quoand reduce the governing elites’ economic benefits from underdeveloped and exclusive financial sector. Using panel data from 65 developing countries from 1995–2014, the results show that democracy, political rights and civil liberties promote financial cooperative development. These results are robust in controlling for endogeneity as well as other economic and institutional factors.

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Impact of regulatory framework rigidity on poverty in the regions of Russia

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2020-12-62-79 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 62-79

Author(s):

P. N. Pavlov

Keyword(s):

Economic Activity ◽

Regional Level ◽

Institutional Factors ◽

Federal Regulations ◽

Russian Regions ◽

Poverty Dynamics ◽

Regulatory Burden ◽

Sectoral Structure ◽

The Impact ◽

Regions Of Russia

The paper analyzes the impact of the federal regulatory burden on poverty dynamics in Russia. The paper provides regional level indices of the federal regulatory burden on the economy in 2008—2018 which take into account sectoral structure of regions’ output and the level of regulatory rigidity of federal regulations governing certain types of economic activity. Estimates of empirical specifications of poverty theoretical model with the inclusion of macroeconomic and institutional factors shows that limiting the scope of the rulemaking activity of government bodies and weakening of new regulations rigidity contributes to a statistically significant reduction in the level of poverty in Russian regions. Cancellation of 10% of accumulated federal level requirements through the “regulatory guillotine” administrative reform may take out of poverty about 1.1—1.4 million people.

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The Integral Nature of Ethnicity and Religion during Northern Ireland’s Troubles

Explorations in Ethnic Studies ◽

10.1525/esr.2018.411204 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 (1-2) ◽

pp. 9-18

Author(s):

Peter Crowley

Keyword(s):

Religious Identity ◽

Historical Narratives ◽

Complex Nature ◽

Political Rights ◽

The Troubles ◽

Religious Conflicts ◽

The World ◽

Sectarian Conflict ◽

Civil And Political Rights ◽

Religious Other

Northern Ireland’s Troubles conflict, like many complex conflicts through the world, has often been conceived as considerably motivated by religious differences. This paper demonstrates that religion was often integrated into an ethno-religious identity that fueled sectarian conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland during the Troubles period. Instead of being a religious-based conflict, the conflict derived from historical divides of power, land ownership, and civil and political rights in Ireland over several centuries. It relies on 12 interviews, six Protestants and six Catholics, to measure their use of religious references when referring to their religious other. The paper concludes that in the overwhelming majority of cases, both groups did not use religious references, supporting the hypothesis on the integrated nature of ethnicity and religion during the Troubles. It offers grounding for looking into the complex nature of sectarian and seemingly religious conflicts throughout the world, including cases in which religion acts as more of a veneer to deeply rooted identities and historical narratives.

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Institutional factors for assessing the spatial development of regional banks

Регион Экономика и Социология ◽

10.15372/reg20170203 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

Spatial Development ◽

Institutional Factors ◽

Regional Banks

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QUO VADIS HUKUM ISLAM (ANTARA IDEALITAS DAN REALITAS INDONESIA)

JURNAL INDO-ISLAMIKA ◽

10.15408/idi.v8i2.17550 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 97-108

Author(s):

Dinda Izzati

Keyword(s):

Political Rights ◽

Right To Life ◽

Economic Rights ◽

Christian Communities ◽

Basic Assumptions ◽

Eastern Indonesia ◽

The Republic ◽

Quo Vadis ◽

The Right

Evidently, a few months after the Jakarta Charter was signed, Christian circles from Eastern Indonesia submitted an ultimatum, if the seven words in the Jakarta Charter were still included in the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution, then the consequence was that they would not want to join the Republic of Indonesia. The main reason put forward by Pastor Octavian was that Indonesia was seen from its georaphical interests and structure, Western Indonesia was known as the base of Islamic camouflage, while eastern Indonesia was the basis for Christian communities. Oktavianus added that Christians as an integral part of this nation need to realize that they also have the right to life, religious rights, political rights, economic rights, the same rights to the nation and state as other citizens, who in fact are mostly Muslims. This paper aims to determine and understand the extent to which the basic assumptions of the Indonesian people view the role of Islam as presented in an exclusive format.

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Compressed Identity

Comparative Islamic Studies ◽

10.1558/cis.34855 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (1-2) ◽

pp. 13-35

Author(s):

H. Şule Albayrak

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Civil Service ◽

Muslim Women ◽

The Self ◽

Political Rights ◽

The Public ◽

Economic Issues ◽

Turkish State ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Depth Interviews

For decades the authoritarian secularist policies of the Turkish state, by imposing a headscarf ban at universities and in the civil service, excluded practising Muslim women from the public sphere until the reforms following 2010. However, Muslim women had continued to seek ways to increase their knowledge and improve their intellectual levels, not only as individuals, but also by establishing civil associations. As a result, a group of intellectual women has emerged who are not only educated in political, social, and economic issues, but who are also determined to attain their socio-economic and political rights. Those new actors in the Turkish public sphere are, however, concerned with being labeled as either “feminist,” “fundamentalist” or “Islamist.” This article therefore analyzes the distance between the self-identifications of intellectual Muslim women and certain classifications imposed on them. Semi-structured in-depth interviews with thirteen Turkish intellectual Muslim women were carried out which reveal that they reject and critique overly facile labels due to their negative connotations while offering more complex insights into their perspectives on Muslim women, authority, and identity.

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Diffusion and Adoption of Corruption in Developing Economies: Evidence from Ghana

International Journal of Emerging Research in Management and Technology ◽

10.23956/ijermt.v6i6.240 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (6) ◽

pp. 21

Author(s):

Solomon A. Keelson ◽

Thomas Cudjoe ◽

Manteaw Joy Tenkoran

Keyword(s):

Social Values ◽

Developing Economies ◽

Policy Formulation ◽

Institutional Factors ◽

Developing Economy ◽

Theoretical Underpinning ◽

Institutional Failure ◽

The Social ◽

The Relationship ◽

And Diffusion

The present study investigates diffusion and adoption of corruption and factors that influence the rate of adoption of corruption in Ghana. In the current study, the diffusion and adoption of corruption and the factors that influence the speed with which corruption spreads in society is examined within Ghana as a developing economy. Data from public sector workers in Ghana are used to conduct the study. Our findings based on the results from One Sample T-Test suggest that corruption is perceived to be high in Ghana and diffusion and adoption of corruption has witnessed appreciative increases. Social and institutional factors seem to have a larger influence on the rate of corruption adoption than other factors. These findings indicate the need for theoretical underpinning in policy formulation to face corruption by incorporating the relationship between the social values and institutional failure, as represented by the rate of corruption adoption in developing economies.

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Jewish Question in the Ideology and Political Practice of Russian Monarchists in the Beginning of the 20th Century

Almanac “Essays on Conservatism” ◽

10.24030/24092517-2020-0-1-232-261 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 102 ◽

pp. 232-261

Author(s):

Igor V. Omeliyanchuk

Keyword(s):

Jewish Population ◽

Jewish Question ◽

Political Rights ◽

Right Wing ◽

Anti Semitism ◽

The First World War ◽

The Russian Empire ◽

The Right ◽

In The Beginning ◽

First World

The present article examines the place of the Jewish question in the ideology of the monarchist (right-wing, “black hundred”) parties. In spite of certain ideological differences in the right-wing camp (moderate Rights, Rights and extreme Right-Wing), anti-Semitism was characteristic of all monarchist parties to a certain extent, in any case before the First World War. That fact was reflected in the party documents, resolutions of the monarchist congresses, publications and speeches of the Right-Wing leaders. The suggestions of the monarchists in solving the Jewish questions added up to the preservation and strengthening of the existing restrictions with respect to the Jewish population in the Russian Empire. If in the beginning the restrictions were main in the economic, cultural and everyday life spheres, after the convocation of the State Duma the Rights strived after limiting also the political rights of the Jewish population of the Empire, seeing it as one of the primary guarantees for autocracy preservation in Russia, that was the main political goal of the conservatives.

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