Essays about: "consensus in science"

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  1. 1. Organized Crime and Government Trust under the Covid-19 pandemic. The case study of Sicily.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Andrea Cavallo; [2023]
    Keywords : Sicilian Mafia; organized crime; government trust; Covid-19; vaccination campaign.; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Do municipalities in which organized crime is strongly established present lower Covid-19 vaccination rates, as a proxy for government trust? This paper aims to answer this question in the specific case of the Italian region of Sicily. Specifically, the analysis exploits a panel dataset of 390 Sicilian municipalities over 107 weeks (between the 27th of December 2020 and the 1st of January 2023) to study if areas with a higher presence of the Mafia, measured through historical sources and more recent data, negatively correlate with the cumulative weekly percentage of Covid-19 vaccinations per municipality. READ MORE

  3. 2. At the Intersection of Mindfulness and Sustainability - An overview of the emerging field of Mindfulness within Sustainability Science

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Lison Mavon; [2023]
    Keywords : Sustainability Science; Mindfulness; Transformation; Interdisciplinary Research; Systematic Literature Review; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Climate change is a people-made crisis which requires a shift in our mindsets. Early studies in the field of mindfulness within sustainability science show the potential of mindfulness to influence consciousness, beliefs, and values for sustainability. However, the field is still at its early stages and scattered over various topics and methods. READ MORE

  4. 3. Consociational Democracy and The Prospects of Agonistic Peace: A Mixed Method Study of the Effects of Lebanese Power-Sharing from 2006 to 2022

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Zacharias Spindler; [2023]
    Keywords : Key words: Consociational democracy; Lebanon; power-sharing; agonistic peace; government immobilism; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Abstract The thesis highlights the need for a broader understanding of consociational democracy and its relationship with government immobilism and agonistic peace. Being a mixed study of the period 2006 to 2022, it suggests that the existing theory of consociational democracy, as proposed by Arend Lijphart (1969) overlooks the cyclical nature of these factors in Lebanon. READ MORE

  5. 4. Restrictive Measures: A Study of the Legality of Countermeasures and EU's Sanctions Imposed on Russia and Iran

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Arvid Hellberg; [2023]
    Keywords : public international law; state responsibility law; countermeasures; third-party countermeasures; sanctions; obligations erga omnes; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Denna uppsats har undersökt konceptet kontraåtgärder inom folkrätten i förhållande till EU:s användning av sanktioner som ett medel för att tvinga efterlevnad av internationella förpliktelser. En kontraåtgärd är en åtgärd som i sig själv är olaglig men blir laglig när den tas som svar på en annans stats olagliga handling. READ MORE

  6. 5. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Serra Hughes; [2022]
    Keywords : novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

    Abstract : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. READ MORE