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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Cross-national research"”.
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Restorative justice as an alternative dispute resolution model: opinions of victims of crime and criminal justice professionals in Nigeria
This is an original non-experimental research conducted in four Geo-Political Zones in Nigeria (West Africa). It surveys opinions of victims of crime and conflicts, and criminal justice professionals with regard to exploring restorative justice as an Alternative Dispute Resolution Model in the …
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Striving for quality, comparability and transparency in cross-national social survey measurement: illustrations from the European Social Survey (ESS)
… (TSE) framework. It is also widely accepted that cross-national surveys have the potential to increase that error further. This is because they most often comprise multiple national surveys under some kind of coordinated framework, whilst also having additional sources of error that stem from the …
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Local environmental attitudes, global environmental attitudes, and religion: An analysis in 47 nations
… towards many topics including the environment. Research interest in the impact of religion soared in the late 1960s, in response to White's (1967) article in Science claiming that a huge burden of guilt for the environment crisis rested on the shoulders of Christianity. Although this Dominion …
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Social strain : a sociological analysis of violent crime rates in Europe
… model capable of being applied to empirical research. Fourthly, bring together theoretical discussions to the requirements of comparative research. The first chapter reviews the present state of comparative research on violent crime and particularly on homicide. It will address three basic …
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Some Barriers to Development in Cameroon, Kenya and Swaziland
In the study of development, researchers attempt to identify and measure the independent variables believed to influence economic growth and social development indicators in countries throughout the world. These researchers employ quantitative cross-national research methods, also known as the …
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The art school ethos across cultures: UK and China
This research investigated the culture and identity of art and design institutions through making comparisons between British and Chinese independent art schools and art schools in multidisciplinary universities, and the cultural contexts behind these art schools in the two countries. The study …
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The Iraq crisis of 2003 and press-state relations :an analysis of press coverage in Finland, Ireland and the UK
The dissensus over Iraq on both international and national levels offers a rich setting for a cross-national research to test some assumptions about media-foreign policy relationship originating mainly from American political communication literature. This line of research suggests that the …
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Getting the message: a transcendental phenomenology of youth experiences of persuasive (partisan) and informative (non-partisan) campaigns during the 2019 Canadian and United Kingdom general elections.
… healthy democracies and is therefore a widely researched topic in political communications. The concern is that if young people experience alienation and disenfranchisement from political processes, and in particular, electoral participation, this may result in a future uninformed electorate, …
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Changing crime mix patterns of criminal careers : longitudinal latent variable approaches for modelling conviction data in England & Wales and the Netherlands
In criminal career research, there has been a great deal of attention paid to the frequency of offending over the life course. This neglects any changes in the patterns and types of offences being committed. However, it is crucial to explore these patterns of offending in detail and various types …
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Trade Unions and the Media: Exercising and Revitalising Power After the Financial Crisis of 2008
… be viewed as a turning point for labour internationally, the immediate response by political parties across the spectrum was one of austerity measures and cuts to welfare. As the largest collective representatives of workers, trade unions are at the forefront of mobilisations attempting to …