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political cartoon that demonstrated their understandings of contemporary Israeli society. Data was collected from interviews and students ... students recent Israeli political cartoons to teach them about current events in the country. The cartoons proved valuable in introducing students to the complexities of Israeli society through the
What is the relationship between financial development, political instability, trade openness and economic growth and how does it change over time? This paper examines these links using a new ... effect on economic growth, which depends significantly on (jointly estimated) trade openness thresholds. In addition, political instability displays a negative effect on growth whereas trade openness a
The present study identifies economic, political, and institutional variables that influence the distribution of personal incomes in the Eurozone countries facing severe fiscal imbalances, namely ... et al. 2019) , mainly in the form of political budget cycles (PBCs), which have been documented to severely affect the actual budget balance especially in Greece (Petrakos et al. 2021a) . We employ
recent trends in original graphic novels to recount stories from history and memoirs, or to explain complex ideas of science and philosophy, or to tell any story that’s not strictly fiction. The term ... aligned with their general subject areas, but topic areas such as history, psychology, political science, economics, etc. were not primarily considered when classifying the graphic novels. We had overlooked
In recent years, film scholars have been increasingly preoccupied with questions as to how films can ‘be’ or ‘do’ or ‘be used for’ philosophy. From the ‘be used for’ position, films are seen as mere ... . Pippin, Robert B. 2012. Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Pippin, Robert B. 2013. Fatalism
If Slavoj Žižek belongs to a rather later generation of thinkers influenced by French philosophy, his allegiance to a Lacanian conceptual framework both aligns him and distinguishes him from the ... consider the earlier analytical context of philosophy of education, the move towards a more Continentalist approach in the 1990s can be seen as a move from a conceptualism to a more socio-political
Many daoist texts offer guidelines to political action. The following essay on Zhuangzi and the martial arts explores kinds of movement and thinking that remind Western political philosophy of the ... political philosophy of the breadth of action open to politics when we think outside of the neoliberal parameters of the modern world. Daoist traditions that have inspired the martial arts are commonly
we simulate a much more conservative cut in public investment by the Greek central government; (ii) a second scenario of a lower risk-premium, signalling, e.g., lower political and re-denomination ... Social Research (NIESR) , London , UK 1 London School of Economics and Political Science , London , UK At the beginning of 2010, the fiscal situation of Greece was unsustainable, and an ambitious but
banking system. The uncertainty induced by the controls was related to whether or not the combination of financial and political turmoil would lead Greece to exit the eurozone and adopt a new independent ... to political constraints. In the interim, the first six months of 2015 saw a run on the banking system due to increased political uncertainty. A cumulative 48.6 billion euros (or more than one quarter
of fiscal announcement, is lacking. This paper aims to bridge this gap. 8 The literature on the political bias in government forecasts is abundant. The persistence of overly optimistic forecasts led to ... the perception that, as budget forecasts came to occupy a more central role in the political process, the pressure on forecasters to help policy makers avoid hard choices led to forecasting bias. A
. Given that a broad programme of tax cuts and regulatory reform would more than pay for itself in the long run, it must be considered as a highly attractive political agenda. ... highly attractive political agenda. Regional study; DSGE model; Policy implication; Indirect Inference 1 Introduction In this paper we set out a model of the regional economy and apply it to UK data
and Development (OECD) countries over the period 1990–2018 we examine whether and how different welfare state models influence the impact of the economic, social and political dimensions of ... ; GMM - JEL Classification F68 · H19 · H53 · I38 · P50 1 Introduction A decades-long challenge for economics and political science research, among others, is to determine whether globalisation
findings indicate that political differences alone do not themselves preclude macroeconomic risk sharing within a monetary union. ... . Monetary union; Optimal currency area; Currency union; Political division 1 Introduction Clashing political preferences, along with concerns over migration and fiscal transfers, raise questions about how
This editorial introduces both JOMEC Journal itself and also the specific concerns of this first issue, reconnecting political disconnection. It first situates the journal in the context of the ... Semiotics, Postcolonial Studies and Educational Philosophy and Theory. With Richard Stamp he is co-editor of The Truth of ?i?ek (2007) and Reading Ranci?re (2011). In the School of Journalism, Media and
country that the fiction identifies with its political leadership. Italian directors criticize the country’s pervasive atmosphere of inertia and decadence. Sorrentino has often remarked that although his ... while belittling and overexposing, the (scantly-dressed) female body. For thirty years, this philosophy has secured viewership and bred a form of political consent supportive of populism, prompting many
perspectives – from ordinary language philosophy to deconstruction. The findings of their studies have both theoretical and practical value: among other discoveries, the authors came up with new critical tools ... Research (IFVCR) Network and an editor of JOMEC Journal. Her areas of interest are communication theory, the philosophy of communication, poststructuralism, and film. Citation Kazakeviciute, Evelina. 2019
times a science, sometimes an aesthetic discourse, or a philosophy of living. By way of reference to bel design, the Italian design of the 1950s, and particularly to the experience of Adriano Olivetti and ... political and ethical propensities. The article asks whether this conception of design is still possible nowadays. Contributor Note Loredana La Fortuna has a PhD in the Theory of Language and Sign Sciences
-contoured, and transformed Jesus into an array of subject positions, with each literary articulation relating to mythology, philosophy, and politics. Teaching Jesus as a literary event allows students to take ... subject a ?ticklish? subject in the history of philosophy. If Christianity is a myth, basically literary, then Christianity exceeds tragedy, according to ?i?ek, by expressing itself through the form of
in Egyptian society. Contributor Note Lawrie Phillips is a Lecturer in Political Sociology, Research Methods and Latin American Politics in the Political Science Department at the British University ... , providing fresh insights into the nature and implications of their coverage of political processes, and supplementing current mass and social media research by evaluating their role in supporting the
