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Showing 1 to 20 of 216 for “"Cross-national"”.
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A cross-national study of childhood autism
… change. This thesis is designed as a cross-national study in order to examine the aspects of the disorder that differ in the UK and Greece along with the differences (if any) in the developmental patterns across countries. The significance of doing a cross-national study is to explore …
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A Cross-National Study of School Violence
… study examines the predictors of school violence cross-nationally, testing the applicability of criminological theories of adult violence to violence in the school setting. Using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), a method of multi-level linear analysis, of the 2007 Trends in International Math …
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Ecology of Terrorism: Cross-National Comparison of Terrorist Attacks
… to evaluate these relationship over time and cross-nationally. The study contributes to the literature on terrorism with relevant policy implications, and contributing to the development of ecological theory and its application to political and religiously motivated violence. </p>
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A Cross-National Study of Civic Knowledge Test Scores
… each at the student, classroom/school, and national levels using the IEA CIVED study international data set collected in 1999 from 27 countries. The student level predictors included two elements of socioeconomic status (a student's parental education, their home literacy level measured by …
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Religion, Electoral Rules and Women's Representation: A Cross National Examination
… why women are underrepresented and/or varied in national parliaments. The study examines women's representation variation and deficit in national parliaments in 67 countries worldwide. Women's representation is explained through the lenses of both political culture (religion and sub-religious …
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An investigation into the nature of cross-national managerial work.
… documents a research project into the nature of cross-national managerial work, the work of managers operating abroad in multinational business organisations. The study focuses upon the impact of national cultural differences upon such work, and seeks to explain how cultural differences can lead …
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A Cross-National Analysis of Political Instability and Economic Development
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Women in politics : a cross-national demand and supply analysis
… parliaments and why is there such variation across countries? To understand gender-based inequality in political authority, we look at the various stages of candidacy and identify potential bottlenecks to women participation and election into public office. There are three stages which one …
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Elite Deviance, Organized Crime, and Homicide: A Cross-National Quantitative Analysis
… and the rights and security of people across and within nations; however empirical research on these topics is limited, especially in the field of criminology. This study addresses this gap in the literature by testing hypotheses derived from Simon’s symbiotic theory of elite deviance, …
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Supranational systems and cross-national online communication in Wallonia and Quebec
… European Union have been studied since the supranational institution was founded. In the twenty-first century, Europe has been faced with a migration crisis that has lead to a rise in xenophobia, anti-immigration movements, and far-right parties. This research seeks to learn more about far-right …
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The Influence of Inequality and Noneconomic Institutions on Cross-National Terrorist Incidents
To expand the research base concerning terrorism this study connects terrorist incidents on a global scale with economic and noneconomic institutional factors. Whereas most terrorism studies use social disorganization theory or anomie theory as their theoretical bases, this study uses institutional …
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Aiding dependency : a cross-national analysis of foreign aid and tax compliance
… To test this argument, a new dataset of sub-national foreign aid in Uganda is used to show that aid lowers tax compliance. These findings are supported with data gathered during fieldwork in Uganda in April and May 2015, and then the findings are generalized through a cross-national analysis …
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Cross-national analysis of the association between subjective social status and health.
… issue in the sociology of health and illness across the globe. Throughout the extensive research effort, subjective social status (SSS) has emerged as a relevant tool for social science and health researchers to investigate socioeconomic disparities in health. Despite the increasing evidences …
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Euroscepticism: A Cross-National Perspective: Germany, The Netherlands, and The United Kingdom
… perspective. It does this by performing a cross-national longitudinal trend study, observing factors related to euroscepticism: political parties, economics, migration, national identity and national sovereignty from 1994 to 2014. Compiling and observing this body of data, it is expected, …
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A Cross-national Study of Mathematics Achievement Via Three-level Multilevel Models
The present study explored the effects of the national and cultural contexts on students' mathematics achievement. The study also investigated the nature and magnitude of student-level (level 1), school-level (level 2), and country-level (level 3) factors that are associated with math achievement. …
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Institutional Theory and Cross-National Differences in International Market Selection for Direct Selling
<p>This study extends international market selection (IMS) literature by using institutional theory to develop conceptual links between country level factors of market attractiveness and IMS. More specifically, this study examines the extent to which institutional theory and cross national …
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Methodological Problems in Comparative and Cross -National Analysis: Applications of Fuzzy Set Theory
Seeking to realize the as yet unfulfilled promise of fuzzy set theory and to show in particular how it can be applied in the field of comparative politics, my dissertation addresses three basic issues. First, I show how to scale membership functions, the primary quantities necessary for fuzzy set …
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Vulnerability, Victimization and VIVA: A Cluster Analysis of Cross-National Human Trafficking Victims
… common vulnerabilities that exist for victims of cross-national human trafficking. First, I analyze literature discussing individual and country- level victim demographics to identify characteristics that predict recruitment or abduction into human trafficking. Using the 2017 Counter Trafficking …
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Political corruption: A cross-national examination of public, judicial and legislative responses (Canada, Germany).
This thesis is a cross-national comparison of corrupt acts by members of the executive in Canada and West Germany. The paper is divided into three distinct sections. The introduction contains a discussion of the method of study that is utilized. An analysis of the definitions of corruption that are …
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