Essays about: "A cross-national"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 93 essays containing the words A cross-national.
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1. Explaining Gender-Based Political Funding: A quantitative cross-national analysis of the impact of electoral, political, and cultural factors on political funding
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Despite global progress on gender equality, women continue to be underrepresented in politics. One widely debated policy measure aimed at tackling this issue is gendered public funding – which has been adopted in more than 30 countries worldwide yet remains understudied in the literature on gender and politics. READ MORE
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2. Has Key Audit Matter become standardized? : Comparative study between UK and Swedish mutually owned insurance companies.
University essay from Jönköping UniversityAbstract : Background/problematization: Traditionally, the auditor’s report was a short pass-or-fail statement with a few lines of text andstandardized wording. Critics have argued that the auditor’s report was a tedious anduninformative statement, more entity-specific and relevant information was wanted in theauditor’s report. READ MORE
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3. The Trans-European Transport Network - A closer look at Policy Failure and the effects of Path Dependence
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : There is a trans-European transport network policy on the supranational level that aims to connect Europe with efficient, sustainable, safe and economically viable cross-national transport infrastructure. Because of this, one could expect EU funding to focus on rail infrastructure, as it has proven to be a low polluting, cost effective and an efficient mode of cross-national transport. READ MORE
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4. Fear Factor : A Cross-national Analysis of Fear of Crime Construction Among majority and Minority Populations
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)Abstract : This paper investigates the influence of individual level factors and social capital on fear ofcrime construction amongst citizens and non-citizens in a cross-national context. Regressionanalysis of the European Social Survey (Round 9) demonstrated that the relative importanceof socio-economic individual level factors is stable across countries and consistent withprevious research. READ MORE
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5. Enhanced Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments as an organisational learning bridge for resilience building? A case study of Red Cross National Societies in the Caribbean
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : Adaptive capacity based on organisational learning (OL) is at once a critical imperative facing humanitarian organisations in their mission to save lives and support communities most at risk; and inherently evidenced as an enduring weakness over the past decades. Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments (VCA) are community-based risk assessments established for their utility in supporting communities’ iterative learning. READ MORE
