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Neo-Despotism as Anti-Despotism
(Sage Publications, 2021)
I treat despotism as a virtual concept. Thus it is necessary to expose its actualizations even when it appears as its opposite, refusing to recognize itself as despotism. I define despotism initially as arbitrary rule, in ...
Activist communication design on social media: The case of online solidarity against forced Islamic lifestyle
(Sage Publications, 2021)
This article explores the relationship between connective and collective group identity through the example of “You Won’t Walk Alone,” a social media platform of solidarity for women suffering from the pressures of Islamic ...
A Bayesian approach to developing a strategic early warning system for the French milk market
(Halmstad University, 2017)
A new approach is provided in our paper for creating a strategic early warning system allowing the estimation of the future state of the milk market as scenarios. This is in line with the recent call from the EU commission ...
Overcoming the Egyptian cotton crisis in the interwar period: the role of irrigation, drainage, new seeds, and access to credit
(Blackwell Publishing, 2021)
After experiencing a period of spectacular growth during the late nineteenth century, the Egyptian cotton sector underwent a phase of stagnation, which was followed by a gradual and steady increase in output during the ...
A Dynamic Game Theory Model For Tourism Supply Chains
(Sage Publications, 2021)
This article contributes to the game-theoretic analysis of tourism supply chains. We start with a baseline model including three types of agents: (a) one theme park, (b) multiple accommodation providers, and (c) multiple ...
Activating reflective thinking with decision justification and debiasing training
(Society for Judgment and Decision making, 2020)
Manipulations for activating reflective thinking, although regularly used in the literature, have not previously been systematically compared. There are growing concerns about the effectiveness of these methods as well as ...
Noise annoyance during COVID-19 lockdown: A research of public opinion before and during the pandemic
(Acoustical Society of America, 2020)
Strict lockdown strategies to stop the spread of COVID-19 have caused a decrease in environmental noise levels and introduced new noise conditions in dwellings. The present study has investigated the impact of the forced ...
Complete density calculations of q-state Potts and clock models: Reentrance of interface densities under symmetry breaking
(Amer Physical Soc, 2020)
All local bond-state densities are calculated for q-state Potts and clock models in three spatial dimensions, d = 3. The calculations are done by an exact renormalization group on a hierarchical lattice, including the ...
'Who wants left-wing policies? Economic preferences and political cleavages in Turkey'
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2020)
We administer a survey of economic policy preferences to a representative sample of the Turkish voting-age population. We show that policy preferences are distributed in non-linear ways that are at odds with what could be ...
Contours of Alternative Policy Making in Venezuela
(Sage Publications Inc, 2014)
The economic policies of the Venezuelan government in the last decade represent a significant departure from neoliberal orthodoxy. This departure consists of a focus on greater national autonomy, a return to some of the ...