This research thoroughly examines the development and present condition of lifelong education in the Republic of Croatia, with a particular emphasis on the patterns related to individuals who have obtained a PhD degree. This study encompasses data at both the national level and country-specific...

Social sciences and humanities (SSH) are an important research and innovation (R&I) area among the various disciplines. SSH research represents an added value to other types of R&I activities when they can be integrated, providing a higher impact to R&I results. This is called SSH integration,...

In February 2025, the European Commission published a communication, under the title 'The road to the next MFF', in which it announced plans for 'a simpler, more focused and more impactful budget' - and through which it launched preparations for the EU's next seven-year budget, or multiannual...

This study evaluates the effectiveness of varying levels of human and artificial intelligence (AI) integration in reproducibility assessments. We computationally reproduced quantitative results from published articles in the social sciences with 288 researchers, randomly assigned to 103 teams...

For several reasons, trust in science in recent years has eroded, throwing serious doubts on once-reliable scientific resources. Although multiple scientific disciplines try to explain the causes and consequences of this worrying decline, we have only scant knowledge about these disciplines’...

This book explores the linkages between Southern Europe and South America in the post-World War II period, through organized migration and development policies. In the post-war period, regulated migration was widely considered in the West as a route to development and modernization. Southern...

During the past quarter of a century the academic business and management literature has placed an increased premium on incorporating theory within contributions to it. Coincidentally this is the same time period during which the study of the business model domain has occurred. For the most...

This paper critically examines the shortcomings of post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021, arguing that an overemphasis on measurable results and causal inference led to overly narrow, community-driven development interventions that failed to appreciate the complex...

We computationally reproduce the central findings in Mehmood (2022), which studied the effect of a 2010 reform in Pakistan replacing the presidential appointment of high-court judges with peer appointments. Mehmood leveraged judicial records interpreted and coded by lawyers in Pakistan at the...

This article presents Professor Joanicjusz Nazarko's outstanding achievements in research, scientific cooperation, teaching and organizational work, in celebration of the 45th jubilee of his scientific work. Over the years, Professor Nazarko has contributed significantly to the development of...

Purpose The paper provides a detailed historical account of Douglass C. North's early intellectual contributions and analytical developments in pursuing a Grand Theory for why some countries are rich and others poor. Design/methodology/approach The author approaches the discussion using a...

Overview -- Preparing for Academic Career -- Research Foundations -- Planning Research Projects -- Conceptual Framework and Theory Development -- Research Approaches and Designs -- Research Settings and Procedures -- Literature Reviews -- Cross-Cultural Research -- Writing Manuscripts for...

Friedrich Hayek was a fervent advocate of the methodological specificity of the social sciences. However, given his contact with Karl Popper, several historians and philosophers have characterised his final position as Popperian, that is, a position that would have accepted the unity of the...

This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current political and social crises, from citizens’ initiatives to networks of cooperation among civil society actors. The book analyses existing informal...

Purpose Many libraries and archives maintain collections of research documents, such as administrative records, with paper-based formats that limit the documents' access to in-person use. Digitization transforms paper-based collections into more accessible and analyzable formats. As collections...

This research thoroughly examines the development and present condition of lifelong education in the Republic of Croatia, with a particular emphasis on the patterns related to individuals who have obtained a PhD degree. This study encompasses data at both the national level and country-specific...

Burnout is characterized by a lack of enthusiasm for work, cynicism, and a low degree of self-esteem. Stress at work is one of the most critical factors contributing to burnout. Due to the high demands in the workplace and the shortage of personnel in these fields, burnout has been extensively...

Social sciences and humanities scholars can influence political discourse through their research, teaching young minds, and engaging the public to demand reforms that are not necessarily aligned with the interests of political leaders. Therefore, autocratic regimes often attempt to control...

This review helps to familiarize students with research approaches, worldviews, and concepts of theory/variables in research. Thus, supporting scholarly literature in the social sciences research contributes to existing knowledge on the meaning of research paradigms, theory, and framework in...

We argue that frequentist hypothesis testing - the dominant statistical evaluation paradigm in empirical research - is fundamentally unsuited for analysis of the nonexperimental data prevalent in economics and other social sciences. Frequentist tests comprise incompatible repeated sampling...

This article identifies the elements that a developing country, such as El Salvador, needs to produce better quality research and use the key results to inform public policy. In the Salvadoran case, the social sciences develop in an ecosystem with a variety of stakeholders, resources and basic...

We develop a novel measure of political slant in research to examine whether political ideology influences the content and use of academic research. Our measure examines the frequency of citations from think tanks with different political ideologies and allows us to examine both the supply and...

Park, Leahey and Funk – PLF – present a thought-provoking contribution to tracking scientific progress by studying the ‘disruptiveness’ of academic publications and patents in a large-N analysis. Their effort – published in Nature 613 (2023) – is timely because the best possible...

Government policy can greatly benefit from the insights of economic science, in particular when the specific national circumstances and preferences are taken into account. This chapter shows that this does not only apply to traditional topics of economic science like fiscal policy (the...

This research explores the incorporation of narrative perspectives in economics as a social science and its implications for rethinking epistemology. By examining the role of narratives in economic analysis, the study highlights the advantages of narratives in providing contextualized accounts...

Survey and lab-in-the-field experiments have become popular methods of social science research in the developing world, yet we know little about how subjects understand these projects. We explore this issue with a two-stage research design: one coauthor used a reputable survey firm to conduct...