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1.The puzzle of the Tehran Bazaar under the Pahlavi monarchy and the Islamic Republic1.巴列维王室和伊斯兰共和国统治下的德黑兰巴扎之谜We have a saying, ‘‘There is one Iran and one Tehran and only one Sara-ye Amin (Amin Caravanserai),’’ meaning that anything that happens in Iran can be...
Particularly in the positivist research tradition, individuals and organisations have been addressed as rational actors who deliberately weigh different options and make decisions based on judgement (e.g., Congleto 2001). This despite the long-held view that decision-makers’ rationality is ...
However, as with many other countries, the UAE has faced some problems in getting its population to fully receive vaccine shots as per the schedules recommended by the World Health Organization. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the UAE launched an extensive vaccination drive, aiming to achieve high...
Metropolitan politics are thus clearly enabling cities and regions to be substantial international actors (Acuto, 2009,2013;Moreno, 2016b;Therborn, 2017), beyond even their nation-states (Herrschel and Newman, 2017), by setting up an urban political international order that supersedes the ...
This theory, which is akin to ethnographic imagination, further assumes that culture is created due to the daily interaction between individual actors. This implies that the interaction between people or group of individuals could influence the creation and rebranding of cultures and meaning-making ...
This appeal is based on a pronounced trust in people's capacity to solve problems jointly and without any interference by institutionalized politics. In this context, the growing recognition of political activism by so-called celebrity diplomats may be linked to these worldviews. Reflections on ...
Methods are often thought of as neutral tools that researchers can pick up and use to learn about a reality ‘out there.’ Motivated by growing recognition of complexity, there have been widespread calls to mix methods, both within and across disciplines
World Politics 38 (3): 462–482. Google Scholar Whiting, Susan H. 2004. The cadre evaluation system at the grass roots: The paradox of party rule. In Holding China together: Diversity and national integration in the post-deng era, ed. Barry J. Naughton and Dali L. Yang, 101–119. ...
appeals to policymakers must take into consideration the different perspectives and uses of evidence within government, contingent upon factors such as internal politics and individuals’ heuristics. The interview data showed how effective policy intermediary actors understood this aspect of the policy proces...