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Unlike their luckier neighbors to the west, Ukraine and Moldova did not enjoy a convenient geographical location, a national consensus, a clear identity or the state traditions to make their transition effective after the meltdown of the Soviet empire. Their initial transformation was gradual,...

Utilizing a large-N data that covers about 20000 observations from about 200 countries from 1789 to 2018 from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project, and anchored on institutionalism as an overarching theory, and the nascent literature on civil-society corruption nexus, the paper looks at...

Shape analysis has special importance in the detection of manipulated redistricting, which is called gerrymandering. In most of the US states, this process is made by non-independent actors and often causes debates about partisan manipulation. The somewhat ambiguous concept of compactness is a...

Negyven éve már, hogy Kína szakított a maoista ideológiával, ezzel együtt a szocializmus Mao-féle megvalósításával, illetve a tervutasításos gazdasággal. Sok idő telt el azóta, Kína pedig óriási változásokon ment keresztül a piacgazdaság felé haladva. A ’90-es években...

The authors of this text decided to prepare a short article, with the aim to induce further discussion and to orient ongoing and future research eff orts in Central and Eastern Europe but also worldwide. Th e article uses the method of a multi-country case study as the basis for proposing...

A tanulmány célja az államvákuum és a hibridizáció jelenségének és megvalósulásának vizsgálata Szíria esetében. Az „arab tavasz” 2011-es és 2019-es hullámát követően számos közel-keleti országban az állam nem bukott meg teljesen, de a kormányzóképessége...

The assessment issues of efficient realization of government programs and projects tend to be topical in modern economic environment due to the fact that performance assessment of budget expenses is the main indicator of the government strategic planning. The international experience of...

This article evaluates the sandbox approach as a regulatory answer to the challenges financial technology brings to finance and social relations. Taking fintech as a sociotechnological phenomenon embedded in discourses of solutionism and innovation, we show that the regulatory sandbox accepts...

Colombia is a multicultural and multiethnic country, surrounded by two oceans, with thousands of paramos, lagoons, and rivers born in a complex geography created by three mountain range systems. A territory that, from its highest points to its plains and jungles—like the Darién Gap or the...